TCB::Loan - TCB Group Loan Database
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TCB::Loan is a DBIx::Frame object written to track group equipment loans
at the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at UIUC.  It
provides administrative and user web interfaces for checking equipment in
and out, as well as scripts to sent out periodic reminder messages
regarding what is on loan to the affected users.  This is actually a
fairly basic function of research groups, but doesn't have a standard
software package.

Specific tables are described in the following modules:

  TCB::System::Loan	  Equipment Loans

Prerequisites
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You must have the following modules installed:

  TCB::System		v0.99
  DBIx::Frame		v1.05

You will also need a running database (mysql is the only one tested), and 
permission to either use the existing contents or create new ones.

Installation Notes
==================

Installing this software is easy:

  perl Makefile.pl
  make
  make test
  make install

Database creation should be taken care of with TCB::System.

Documentation
=============

All of the documentation is in the manual pages - 'man TCB::Loan' after
installation, or 'pod2text TCB/Loan.pm | less' right now.  'perldoc
TCB::Loan' probably also works.

Web Page
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http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Development/MDTools/tcb-loan/

                            - Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@ks.uiuc.edu)
-- 
   Theoretical and Computational    http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/
Biophysics, Beckman Institute, UIUC    Senior Systems Administrator
