Athenaeum Light Read Me

Contents
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	Introduction
	System Requirements
	Installation
	Passwords    <------------------------=======
	Instructions on Use
	Purchasing Athenaeum Express
	How to get support
	Distributing Athenaeum Express

Introduction
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Athenaeum Light is a free library management package designed for schools, but also popular with church groups and private libraries. Version 3.0.7 adds a few new features, especially the ability to have due dates calculated for Saturdays and Sundays (as requested by church groups). It is the entry level program in the Athenaeum family of products.

Athenaeum Light lets you manage catalogues, borrowers, circulation and analyse borrowing histories. Catalogue items can be marked not for issue, archived (and returned later if necessary). Athenaeum Express will track your purchasing, including donations and depreciations, reservations, and overdue items. You can perform easy or complex searches on the catalogue (including multiple, stacked boolean requests including "ANDs", "ORs" and "NOTs").

Reporting options allow you to create "culling" lists (by searching for books that have been checked out a user-specified number of times); analyse circulation statistics by catalogue item, borrowers, gender, rooms, or specific years (usually in detailed or summary version). You can also quickly create overdue notices, bar codes (requires a bar code font), or inventory values for insurance or budgetary purposes on any part or all of the catalogue. 

Athenaeum Light may be networked if you have FileMaker Pro 4 or higher (this is not required for stand-alone use) or have purchased the Athenaeum Light CD-ROM from SumWare Consulting's Web pages.

System Requirements
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Athenaeum Light requires
* Windows 95 or higher;
* a screen that can display 256 colours;
* a bar code font (commercial or freeware)
  if you want to print your own bar codes
* Adobe Acrobat 3.0 is required to read the included documentation
  (or go to the SumWare Consulting web-site and follow the Athenaeum 
  links <http://www.sumware.co.nz/> for all on-line documentation).
* Multi-user networking requires each connected computer to have a
  fully licensed copy of FileMaker Pro (not required when stand-alone) or the network client
  from the Athenaeum Light CD-ROM and computers enabled for TCP/IP or IPX networking.

Installation
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Installing Athenaeum Light is easy.
 1) Simply unzip the Athenaeum Light archive into a convenient
    location (e.g. a folder on your C:\ drive called "Athenaeum Light Folder");
 2) read this read me;
 3) browse the documentation (requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0) and 
 4) double click the Athenaeum Express icon.

Passwords
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Your administration password:   				library%%
Your day to day librarian password is:				librarian7
User password that can only browse the catalogue is:		user


Instructions on use
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AL tutorial is basic documentation in Adobe Acrobat Reader format. Please read this first. When you have read this, install Athenaeum Light and then start the program.

There is sample data in the program that can be used in conjunction with the tutorial. When you have finished with the tutorial, click the Config button on the main menu and then click the small programmer button at the bottom right. There is a facility to delete all existing data in Athenaeum Light.

Purchasing Athenaeum Products
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Athenaeum Light is one of a number of products from SumWare Consulting. These products include Athenaeum Light, Athenaeum Express, Athenaeum Pro and the Athenaeum Marc Reader. Custom consulting can also be purchased from SumWare Consulting.

To purchase Athenaeum products, please go to our web-site and follow the links at the bottom of the Athenaeum home page, or go directly to <http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/r1.cgi?UM7&> to purchase via the web, or, if your browser supports it, at the Kagi secure web site: <https://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/r1.cgi?UM7&&lang=en>

How to get support
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Limited support is available via email <library@sumware.co.nz> to registered users. A higher level of support is available for users of our commercial products.

The most common support queries (by about 6 to 1) are about passwords.
These can be found earlier in this document, so you might look a little silly if you ask for the passwords.




Distributing Athenaeum Light
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You may distribute Athenaeum Light freely, provided it is complete in the original, unopened, zip format with this read me and the documentation.


Have fun.

Regards

Rob Russell
SumWare Consulting
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