Book Librarian Version 2.0 by Lemuel D. Turner Member Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP) (C) 1991-1993 By Lemuel D. Turner and TurboSystemsCo Mailing Address: TurboSystemsCo P.O. Box 965368 Marietta, Ga. 30066 404-516-8575 FAX 404-591-4988 Registration Price: $34.00 + 4.00 S/H (US), $8.00 (Non-US) To INSTALL : Type - INSTALL (Requires a hard drive or 720K+ floppy) To Start: Type - BL NOTE: The file format is not compatible with earlier versions. A conversion program is provided with the registered version to update old files to the new format. _______________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM DESCRIPTION _______________________________________________________________________ BOOK LIBRARIAN is an easy to use book database management system. It is ideal for managing a personal, professional, church, club, or business library. You can quickly search your library by Title Author, Subject or Book type. Can print reports to the screen, printer or disk file. ______________________________________________________________________ SPECIAL FEATURES _______________________________________________________________________ - Holds 25 Information Fields About Each Book -- Title, Author (first & last), Subjects(3), Book Type, Edition, Pages, Copyright Year, Catalog #, ISBN, Purchase Date, Price, Publisher, Location, Note1, Note2, Borrower (first, last), Record/Accession#, Condition, Tag, Value, Due Date -- A memo field that can hold up to 60 lines of information about each title. - Database Management Functions. -- File Next, Prev, Find, Top, Last, Edit, Add, Del, Search, Report, Quit - Reports -- Thirteen fixed format reports, plus a self design report. --- Reports may be printed to screen, printer or disk text file. --- Can print on continous form 3 X 5 cards or laser 3 x 5 cards. - Context Sensitive Help -- Press F1 to bring up a relevant help screen at any point in the program. ______________________________________________________________________ SPECIAL FEATURES - cont Book Librarian _______________________________________________________________________ - Mouse Support - Screen Saver -- A built-in screen saver activates when the keyboard is not used at a user customizable interval. - Find/Browse Windows -- Moveable, scrollable, resizeable - Find any Title, Subject, Author or Book Type, Record#, Catalog# or Tag in approximately 1 second or less. - Search database on any combination of fields. - Can hold over 2 billion titles, approximately 600 on a 360k floppy if memo field is not used. Memo field only uses disk space if the field is used. ______________________________________________________________________ SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS ______________________________________________________________________ (1) 512K RAM (2) Printer (3) Hard drive or 720K+ floppy ______________________________________________________________________ SERVICES PROVIDED TO REGISTERED USERS ______________________________________________________________________ (1) The latest version of Book Librarian without the shareware registration screens. (2) A printed manual. (3) Customer Support by phone or mail by a member of ASP. (4) Advisement of upgrades which are provided at low cost. (5) Catalog of addtional products and discounts on additional product purchases. (6) The ability to edit/change the report headings. REGISTRATION PRICE: $34.95 ______________________________________________________________________ DISTRIBUTION PERMISSION ______________________________________________________________________ Permission is granted to shareware vendors, users groups and BBSs to add Book Librarian to their libraries and distribute the program as long as the shareware concept is explained, ie this software is not free and continued use pass the evaluation period requires payment of a registration fee to the author. ______________________________________________________________________ PRODUCT HISTORY ______________________________________________________________________ Version 1.5 Released Jan 29 1992 Changes: (1) Added memo report - prints memo contents. (2) Added printer selection to utility menu..dropped printer driver database program DBPRINST.EXE (3) Fixed bugs in custom report field selection. (4) Fixed bug that caused query screen selection criteria to be ignored when printing reports. Version 1.52 Changes: (1) Added the ability to flush data stored in the DOS buffers to disk by pressing the F3 function key. Version 1.53 Released Dec 26, 1993 Changes: (1) Added installation program (2) Added Printer Driver for Cannon BJC-600 printer. (3) Added Printer Driver for HP Deskjet 500/550C Version 2.0 Released Nov 7, 1994 Changes: (1) Allows datafile switching from within the program. (2) Added the following new fields, Borrower (First and Last names), Record/Accession#, Condition, Due Date Value and Tag. (3) The capacity of memo field double from 2400 (30 lines) to 4800 characters (60 lines). (4) Size of Title and Author Fields increased. (5) Allows 3 subjects per title. (6) Can search for data in the memo field. (7) Pop-Up calendar added. (8) Tag records for printing. (9) Three new indexes added - Record#, Catalog# and Tag (10) Primarily index user selectable. (11) Improved error trapping during printing. (12) Direct edit of any field including the memo field (13) Support for laser/inkjet type index cards. (14) Five new reports added. a. Subject 2 b. Library Cards c. Borrowers d. Overdues e. Labels (15) Memo report modified to allow multiple records per page. (16) Program order.exe eliminated from distribution disk. Order Screen can now be accessed from Book Librarian program by Pressing the [F6] function key.