| | SIMA Serials/Acquisitions/Accounting helps libraries organize and manage serials, order and purchase new materials, and track and control costs. Law libraries typically spend large amounts of money on serials subscriptions because serials are crucial to the ability of firm attorneys to conduct their business. A software application that can efficiently order new materials, check in and route serials, claim missing issues, track costs, and identify duplicate/unneeded subscriptions can be a time saver for library staff and a money saver for the firm. SIMA Serials/Acquisitions/Accounting does all this and more. Designed specifically for law libraries by an experienced professional law librarian, this application is powerful, full-featured and extremely easy to use. Everything -- including serials management, acquisitions, accounting, reports, searching, spell checking, even email -- is seamlessly integrated, and the elegant user interface displays all key information on a single screen. Key benefits and features  | Integrated email to make it easy for attorneys to request materials | | Quick check-in of incoming materials, with just a few keystrokes | | Complete reports function, with instant reports previews and all the standard library reports plus fully customized reports (reports can be saved and attached to emails) | | Easy printing of routing slips and labels for anything in your library, including entire sets of reporters and single items such as transfer binders, on virtually any type of printer | | Integrated Acquisitions for ordering of new materials, and integrated Accounting to keep track of billings and subscriptions (easily find and edit information about title, publisher, invoice number, budget category or account chargeable) | | Included Utilities for backup and routine maintenance |
If you acquire SIMA Serials now and later decide to upgrade to the SIMA Camelot Integrated Library System (the Catalog application), your SIMA Serials titles will seamlessly transfer to the SIMA Camelot program ... and since SIMA Serials operates the same as the Serials application in SIMA Camelot, you will have NO learning curve!
SIMA Serials/Acquisitions/Accounting overview
This full-featured serials-management program automates everything: checking in serials, preparing routing slips, processing books and other acquisitions, and generating labels for check-out cards, pockets and spines. Database conversion Our database conversion services can convert your current serials database (in ASCII/DOS-text or SIMA Serials 2000 format) into the SIMA Serials/Acquisitions/Accounting structure on a per-title charge, based on the size, content and format of your database. Specifications and detailed features
| Task Automation | Checking in serials | | Processing books and other acquisitions | | Printing routing slips and labels | | Maintaining arriving transfer binders | | Controlling bibliographic data | | Maintaining book budgets
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| | Easy to Use | Intuitive: Little or no training required! | | Familiar Windows point-and-click graphical user interface | | Clickable buttons to instantly execute the most commonly used functions | | F1 displays pulldown authority lists for selected Title fields | | F3 adds a record, F4 adds a routee, F5 inserts a routee, F6 inserts a break | | Unlimited field lengths (untold thousands rather than the 100-character maximum of some programs)
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| | Serials Database | Unlimited number of serials titles | | Information entered is automatically saved (no need to periodically save to hard disk) | | Easily insert notes to library staff about any serials title
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| | Easy, Fast Searches | Get button for fast title searches | | Advanced searches can search individual fields
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| | Powerful Reports Capability | One-click printing of routing slips, labels and cards | | Available reports include standard, notes, full, routee, accounts and claims
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| | Truly User Friendly | Instant access to Titles, Accounting, Reports and Settings via clickable tabs | | Full-screen Title display includes bibliographic data, in-house information, call number/location, records of all issues received and names of all routees who receive the publication | | Settings tab permits customization (changing certain default settings to meet your library's needs)
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| | Fully Integrated Accounting Function | Immediate access to, and updating of, billing and subscription information | | Accounting information is linked to a serials title and displays accounting information plus all detailed accounting records for that title
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| | Customer Support | Unlimited telephone support during first 90 days after purchase | | Annual software service/maintenance agreements and per-incident technical support available |
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System Requirements
| Hardware requirements | 200MHz processor | | 64MB RAM | | SVGA video card (capable of displaying 800x600 resolution) | | 1GB on hard disk for program files, and 6MB for each 1,000 records in database | | Windows XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95 Operating System | | Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or above installed |
| | Network requirements (if program is installed on a network server) | 10/100 NIC with throughput to network drive of 64KB/sec | | Windows 2000/NT or Novell |
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Program Pricing and Acquisition Please see how to acquire or call 703-569-0993 for a detailed proposal tailored to your specific requirements. Demo of SIMA Serials Click here to access the full featured demo. | |
