Community Information Database

[Conkas, Michelle]

Hello, I hope this is an appropriate topic for this list.

At Vaughan Public Libraries we are looking into creating a Community
Information Database (listing addresses, contact details, and a summary of
community groups in the area) to be hosted on our web page. I have been
looking at various similar projects already on the web, and have noticed
they vary hugely in quality and content. Some sites are just HTML pages,
which I imagine would be difficult and time consuming to update regularly.

Since we want to make this a long-term project that is easily updated, I was
thinking more along the lines of buying database software that has the
following features:
	* has a web interface
	* holds up to 2000 records
	* has an online form that when completed e-mails to a staff member
for checking before being able to be entered directly into the database
	* has the ability to print the records for posting to community
groups on an annual basis (this would mean printing out the address, current
details and space for changes to these details)
	* the ability to search the database by keyword (or other fields) as
well as browse alphabetically
	* tracks statistics of usage

If anyone has had experience in dealing with this kind of project, I would
appreciate any information and experience you may have gained.

Regards,

Michelle Conkas
CAP Coordinator
Vaughan Public Libraries