Athenaeum Express 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 Express is a full-featured, low cost library management package designed for schools, but also popular with church groups and private libraries. Based on the popular Athenaeum Light, it adds a new look and feel, many more features and beefed up security. It is the middle program in the Athenaeum family of products.

Athenaeum Express lets you manage catalogues, borrowers, circulation and analyse borrowing histories. Borrowers each have their own borrowing and reserve privileges and 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 Express may be networked if you have FileMaker Pro 4 or higher (this is not required for stand-alone use).

System Requirements
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Athenaeum Express requires
* Windows 95 or higher;
* a screen that can display 800x600 pixels and 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).

Installation
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Installing Athenaeum Express is easy.
 1) Simply unzip the Athenaeum Express archive into a convenient
    location (e.g. a folder on your C:\ drive called "Athenaeum Express         Folder");
 2) read this read me;
 3) browse the quick start documentation (or read the latest 
    documentation on our web-site) and 
 4) double click the Athenaeum Express icon.

Passwords
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Your librarian password (when starting Athenaeum Express is):   lib7
Your options password (to use administrative functions):	fred7

Other passwords exist and can be provided to registered users of the program.

Instructions on use
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The Adobe Acrobat documentation included (quickdoc.pdf) is simply a print, from Internet Explorer, of the QuickStart guide downloaded from the web (which is why some of the graphics span page breaks and don't appear as well as they could). Please read this first. Then, you may go to the Athenaeum web-site and download the full user manual. When reading the instructions in your web browser, you can click on them to see them full size.

Purchasing Athenaeum Express
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Athenaeum Express is a commercial program. This version is fully functional for two months from the date of installation. Upon purchase of Athenaeum Express, you will be provided with a serial number that will remove the time limit.

To purchase Athenaeum Express, 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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Support is available via email <library@sumware.co.nz> to registered users.

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.

Limited support is available, for free, for users trialling the software, only via email.


Distributing Athenaeum Express
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You may distribute Athenaeum Express trial 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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