I plan to send the database as an attachment to the List. Anyone who has MS Access as part of a windows95 package will be able to use it to query or sort. My co- workers, more expert than myself in the program, helped me create a colorful form. However, I found it more practical to work with the table or queries to do analysis. Following are a few notes on what I learned about surveying a group as diverse as we are on a subject as complex as automation software.
Software packages come in a variety of modules according to the needs of individual libraries.
This affects the price. The survey asks about library budget and annual cost of the software. You seldom can answer these questions definitively. I took out budget answers entirely because the meaning of budget and what it included was not precise. Size of collections needs to be qualified.