Re: [LM_NET] cataloging / tracking / scheduling system needed

[Brent Bradley <bsb_lib@YAHOO.COM>]

Athena does have a booking feature, and I'm not sure whether other cataloging 
systems do or not. But, what I'd like is a way for users to see what is going on 
with the calendar...the way they do when they look at a calendar. Where is the 
laptop cart going next? Or better yet, who had it last, and was there time for it 
to recharge in between? It's those things that you can see on a calendar, and that 
Athena's booking doesn't give me. Also, Athena's feedback regarding usage stats 
would be okay, but rather weak for such a potentially powerful database. I'd like 
to be able to export data and sort it, or perhaps sort right in the program. Charts 
would be a plus. I'm talking a total tool to use for user interface as well as 
producing reports I can use at a school board meeting. With the amount of money we 
spend on these things, why don't we get what we need to do our jobs and do them 
well?

Brent


"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social 
transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence 
of the good people."
--Martin Luther King
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Brent Bradley
Library Media Specialist
Valley View Community School
Henry Wilson Memorial School
Farmington, NH
bsb_lib@yahoo.com

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