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Conference proceeding
Building a management information system
pp.76-78
International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists, 4 (Budapest, Hungary, 08/06/2003 - 08/09/2003)
08/2003
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000001489
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/1470
Abstract
Statistics are an important tool in management decision-making. Every area of the library performs work that is measurable in some way. In many libraries data on collection activities results from daily routines and is facilitated by integrated library systems, but the collection of data on reference activities is left to periodic sampling, generated by hand tallying. In 1994 at the Medical Sciences Library of Texas A&M University we began to investigate, design, and implement a method of collecting statistical data on the computer based on a program developed at the Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center Library in 1993. By 1995 we had a fully functional, customized Management Information System, using the Paradox relational database software, that tracked not only client serve interactions at the reference desk, but also administrative operations such as billing. The system was migrated to Microsoft Access in 1998. The MIS is still used to track reference desk transactions, mediated searches, librarian-taught classes, and activities in the Clinical Veterinary Librarian program.
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- Title
- Building a management information system
- Creators
- Nancy Burford (Author)
- Publication Details
- pp.76-78
- Conference
- International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists, 4 (Budapest, Hungary, 08/06/2003 - 08/09/2003)
- Academic Unit
- 4 ICAHIS, Szent Istvan University (Veterinary University of Hungary), Budapest, Hungary, 6 - 9 August 2003; International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists
- Publisher
- Veterinary Science Library, Szent Istvan University, Budapest, Hungary (with the support of the Ministry of Education)
- Grant note
- OVID (main sponsor), CAB International, Minerva, Intervet, Biome, Hungarian Ministry of Education, National Scientific Research Fund (Hungary)
- Identifiers
- 963 9483 35 4; 99900501657001842
- Copyright
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding