Cuadra ASP Service Selected to Manage and Distribute Bone Marrow Information; Hosted ASP Service Allows for Use of Robust Software without Investing in Computer Infrastructure.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- The National Bone Marrow Transplant bone marrow transplant: see bone marrow. Link (nbmtLink) has chosen to use STAR/Libraries as part of its subscription to the Cuadra ASP Service. Cuadra Associates, Inc., a leading provider of knowledge management software products, offers subscriptions to the hosted service as an alternative to purchasing a software license to their products. The National BMT BMT bone marrow transplantation. BMT, n.pr See bone marrow transplant. BMT Bone marrow transplant, see there Link (www.nbmtlink.org), founded in 1992, is a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. created to provide educational and emotional support for bone marrow/stem cell transplant patients, their caregivers, and health care professionals. They provide resource referrals for patients, caregivers, families, and health care professionals; produce and distribute educational materials; and provide peer support and telephone support groups, and educational forums. One of their resources is an online library, which includes both original materials and resources that they have collected from other sources. "We wanted to organize and maintain our materials so that they would be more easily accessible to our users," said Myra Jacobs, the founder of nbmtLink. "We needed a fully functional integrated library system An integrated library system, or ILS, is an enterprise resource planning system for a library, used to track items owned, orders made, bills paid, and patrons who have borrowed. that would carry us for years to come, and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. to maintain the computer system for us. We chose STAR/Libraries on the Cuadra ASP Service because we were confident that Cuadra Associates would be able to meet our needs. The price was right, and not having to maintain a server is a huge benefit to our small organization." "One of our staff members is a six-year survivor of a bone marrow transplant," said Cuadra president Dr. Carlos A. Cuadra. "We understand only too well the vital importance of the work that nbmtLink does, and we are delighted to be able to support them." STAR/Libraries, which works with Cuadra's acclaimed ac·claim v. ac·claimed, ac·claim·ing, ac·claims v.tr. 1. To praise enthusiastically and often publicly; applaud. See Synonyms at praise. 2. STAR knowledge management system, is a robust, task-oriented integrated library system. It is known for the fast, precise retrieval that it provides with its browser-based public access catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. . About Cuadra Associates, Inc. Founded in 1978, Cuadra Associates, Inc. is a leading provider of knowledge management software products. The core of every Cuadra product is STAR, a highly acclaimed multi-purpose software package with the power and flexibility to manage information collections of all types. STAR is unique in that it is able to manage information collections from many types of environments, including libraries, records centers, archives, and museums. Many of these organizations have multiple, related information management needs that can be met with a single STAR software package. For more information on Cuadra or any of its products, contact Cuadra Associates Inc. at 800-366-1390 or 310-478-0066 or visit the company's Web site at: http://www.cuadra.com |
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