From:	Pepe, Richard (FIES)
Sent:	04 March 2009 10:34
To:	ASFA-Board-L@mailserv.fao.org
Subject:	ASFA input software as part of an Integrated Library Management software
Dear ASFA Partners,

We have discussed at some past Board Meetings the adoption of an Integrated Library Management software in place of our input software which only handles input (cataloguing) and search..
An Integrated Library Management software would combine the current ASFA input (cataloguing) and search functions which are contained in the www-ISIS-ASFA software with other Library management functions (such as lending, acquisitions, etc.)  .

At the last Board Meeting, we introduced as possible Integrated Library Management software the WebLis software developed by ICIE (Dr Rybinski) who is the same person/company that developed the www-ISIS-ASFA software. He sent FAO a cost estimate for integrating the www-ISIS-ASFA input (cataloguing) functions into WebLis at Euro 8 575.   

HOWEVER, we the FAO ASFA Secretariat have not taken any further action on this matter as, in the meantime, a competing Integrated Library Management software system called ABCD (supported by BIRME)  was launched.

Currently, we are having an in-house computer specialist evaluating some of the pro's and con's of the two systems.
................................
But to assist us in our evaluation of the two systems and to reconfirm the actual need of Partners for an Integrated Library Management software as part of the ASFA input software 
Please reply to the questions below:  
 
1. As you know, the current www-ISIS-ASFA software contains a function to input records (i.e. cataloguing) and a function to search.
 If the current www-ISIS-ASFA software were made to also include other library management functions would you use them/do you need them? 
 reply: Yes? or   No?

If you replied YES to the above question, go to question 2. If you replied No, return to preparing more ASFA input - with a nice cup of coffee or tea. 

2. If you replied YES to the above question
which modules would you be using:
-  a module to handle library loan services, YES, NO
-  a module to handle acquisitions YES, NO
-  a module to handle serial management YES, NO 
-  a module for statistics Yes, NO

Thank you

Regards, 
Richard Pepe 
Fishery Information Officer (Editor-in-Chief ASFA) 
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Fisheries and Aquaculture Department
Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division (FIE)
Fisheries and Aquaculture Information and Statistics Service (FIES)
Via delle Terme di Caracalla
00153, Rome, Italy
 
Telephone:    +(39) 0657051 (operator) Telephone: +(39)  06570 56380(direct) 
Fax number:  +(39) 06570 52476 
E-mail:   richard.pepe@fao.org 
(FAO) http://www.fao.org / (Fisheries Department) http://www.fao.org/fi 
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) http://www.fao.org/fi/asfa/asfa.asp