Programs

Readability
Program which measures difficulty level of text material against nine different formulas in use by the educational and publishing community. Plots graphs and provides answers based on original text input or via files from word processors. Available for Apple and IBM PC computers. Published by Micro Power & Light, Inc., Dallas, Texas. This program sold steadily for over ten years with several thousand copies in print. Today Microsoft has a rudimentary feature in Word that uses only one of these formulas.

The B.A.R.S. Tender
Auditor tracking program designed to report expenditures and revenues and payroll for special districts. Tracks by Washington State Budget and Reporting System guidelines (BARS). Menu driven, used by office and accounting personnel. Includes a complete payroll system. Was used at several regional libraries, a fire district, and a park district, all in Washington State. In its run of 15 years the program tracked over a billion dollars in expenditures. Grand Prize Winner in Computers in Libraries software contest, 1988.

The Member Tender
Complete program written for organization management, providing mailing labels, organization membership lists, and statistical tracking by user-defined categories. Completely menu-driven. Used by the Washington Library Association to track 1,000 members for many years. A version was published by the Meckler Corporation, Westport, CT. Includes manual of operations.

The Label Maker
Written after imploring cries for help by technical services personnel, this program has been in use for over 22 years to print hundreds of thousands of spine labels used in processing books, a task incapable of being performed by the half-million dollar acquisition and inventory control system. Menu and database driven.

The Paper Shaper
Complete newspaper indexing system featuring authority control, global change for subjects and names, sophisticated searching and scoping options, and extensive cross-reference capabilities. Written in cooperation with the Sun newspaper (Kitsap County, Washington) to match requirements of newspapers as well as libraries.

PC Inventory Management
Configuration management program for tracking microcomputers and peripherals in an information center environment. Tracks both hardware and software to aid in software updating, licensing management, internal configuration, and capabilities of all microcomputers in an organization.