Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (55 mails)

[Kyle Williamson <k.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In terms of Library Management here, we use Eclipse (successor to the old 
Acorn Micro Libriain (sp?)) and for online book searching we do the following:

* Librian (sp?) export data into CSV.
* Feed CSV via PHP script into SQL database.
* Users search SQL database via Intranet.

Works quite well, be good if it was live. :/

 - Kyle


>===== Original Message From "Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
=====
>> Hi there Paul,
>>
>> Sims is a modular school management system developed by Capita Systems. It
>> contains all the pupil information, including their pictures and timetable.
>> When I sya modular, I mean that there are several bolt-ons to the main
>> program. The module used for pupil information is called Midas (I think).
>
>The module holding this information is called STAR, MIDAS is
>more for displaying summaries of data.
>
>Originally CES were going to replace STAR with a new program called
>Nova (New Star). Which took over the functions of the previous
>COVER package. Somewhat duplicates MIDAS and was ment to replace
>EXAMS, but never happened.
>
>Nova uses a different file database from the rest of SIMS, theoretically
>handling data interchange transparently.
>
>Now CES want to move to "Super Star", which is based around MS SQL
>server and .NET. Requires a rather frightening client spec (we
>only retired the last 486 a few months back) and shows all the
>signs of becoming "black hole Star" so far as paying for the thing
>is concerned.
>
>> There are also modules for staff cover, attendance, finance, and
>
>The latest version of the finance module is FMS6, which uses
>SQL Anywhere. Unlike all the other SIMS modules it has no ability
>to restrict access to specific workstations...
>
>> timetabling. Our SIMS manager has a lot more icons on his screen as well.
>> Not sure what they are.
>
>Depending how you configure it you can set SIMS launcher to display
>modules which are not actually installed.
>
>> I have not heard of Scomis.
>
>Lucky you :)
>
>> Alice is a library system as you correctly put it. I originally set it up 
in
>> our school before passing complete control to our librarian. It is 
developed
>> by Softlink - www.softlink.co.uk. It isn't a bad piece of software once you
>> get used the way it does things. We find that half of the menu options do
>> not get used. It does need an interface re-design, but I cannot see 
Softlink
>
>It has a few subtle bugs, like scrollbars not working correctly in
>some dialogues but working in others...
>
>> changing something with works okay. I would prefer a web interface - and
>> that reminds we, you can run an Alice Network Server which allows the query
>> of books online.
>
>So long as you have IIS, no thankyou.
>
>--
>Mark Evans
>St. Peter's CofE High School
>Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109
>Fax: +44 1392 204763
>
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Kyle Williamson
Applemore College

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