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>Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 12:28:05 -0500
>From: "Norval Bard" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: #7142 Tracking software
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Naming equipment after graduated lab assistants?? That's great!  Wow, 
the things I learn on this listserv...

Norval Bard

LLTI-Editor wrote:

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>>Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 15:09:09 -0400
>>From: Barbara Sawhill <[log in to unmask]>
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>>Subject: Tracking software
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>I agree 100% with Read's comments about a good tracking system being good
>"ammunition" in these times of budget cuts and space disputes.  The need
>for documentation of what we do and whom we help is critical to the
>survival of the language lab.
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>Along the lines of tracking software: can anyone suggest a tool to help
>keep track of the equipment and to make sure we do not double book items?
>Currently we use our scheduling software (Meeting maker) for reserving
>equipment, and we have gone the extra step of naming all of the pieces of
>equipment after graduated lab assistants so as not to have confusion, but
>what we need is something built in to the scheduling software  that would
>tell us say, you only have three VCRS left or there are no more tripods
>available for checkout...  Does such a thing exist?
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>Any suggestions would be welcome.
>
>Barbara Sawhill
>Director
>Cooper International Learning Center (The Language Lab)
>Oberlin College
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>phone: 440-775-8595   fax: 440-775-6888
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>The Language Lab website: http://www.oberlin.edu/ilc
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>"The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what
>you're doing, someone else does."
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Norval Bard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of French
Director, Roberta I. Myers Language Resource Center
North Central College
30, N. Brainard St.
Naperville, IL 60566
ph. 630-637-5125
fax: 630-637-5295