Library

Our library of books is available to anyone with an active chapter membership, thanks to the generous donation of Shiraz Kassam. The chapter library is worth approximately $1000. Thanks also to John Meroth for cataloging the library and to Ed Landale for serving as our chapter librarian.

See below to reserve or return a book.

Library Catalog
Title	Author	Publication Year	Status	Member Comments
The Lexus and the Olive Tree	Thomas Friedman	2000	on loan
Data Sharing	Michael Brackett	1994	available
Enterprise Knowledge Management	David Loshin	2001	available
Data Model Resource Book (Revised Edition)	Len Silverston	2001	available
Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality	Larry English	1999	available
Introduction to Oracle for Experienced SQL Users	Christian Bauwens	1999	available
Managing the Data-Base Environment	James Martin	1983	available
Data Quality The Field Guide	Thomas Redman	2001	available
XML in Data Management	Peter Aiken	2004	available
XML for Data Architects	James Bean	2003	available
CASE Method Tasks and Deliverables	Richard Barker	1990	available
Client/Server Survival Guide (Third Edition)	Robert Orfali	1999	available
The Data Warehouse Challenge	Michael Brackett	1996	available
Alpha Males and Data Disasters - The Case for Data Governance	Gwen Thomas	2006	available
Data Stores Data Warehousing and the Zachman Framework	W H Inmon	1997	available
Understanding Database Management Systems	Rob Mattison	1998	available
Meta Data Repository	David Marco	2000	available
Excel 2003 for Dummies	Greg Harvey	2003	available
The Information Architecture Handbook	Peg Gagarin	1999	available
Guidelines to Implementing Data Resource Management	DAMA Chicago	2001	available
Designing XML Databases	Mark Graves	2002	on loan
Applying Use Cases	Geri Schneider	1998	available
Teach Yourself UML in 24 Hours	Joseph Schmuller	2004	available
Object-Oriented Information Systems	David Taylor	1992	available
Visual Literacy - Learn to See, See to Learn	Lynell Burmark	2002	available
Oracle PL/SQL 101	Christopher Allen	2001	available
The Competitive Advantage of Nations	Michael Porter	1990	available
Software Engineering - An Industrial Approach	Ronald Radice	1988	available
An Introduction to Database Systems - Volume 1	C J Date	1990	available
Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases	Malcolm Chisholm	2001	available	An excellent treatment of what some people refer to as "code tables". Norman Daoust
Data Modeling Essentials (Second Edition)	Graeme Simsion	2001	available
Business Rule Concepts (Third Edition)	Ronald Ross	2009	available
The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit (sans CD-ROM)	Ralph Kimball et al.	1998	available

To reserve a book

To reserve a book, email our librarian, Ed Landale at elandale (ampersand sign) earthlink.net, remembering to remove the spaces and substitute the @ character in the email address. Use the subject line 'DAMA New England: library loan request'. In the body of the email message, include your name, the name of the book you'd like to check out, and whether you'd like to pick it up at the next chapter meeting, pick it up at our library in Medford, MA or have it mailed to you (if so, include your mailing address). The chapter pays for the cost of mailing you the book. You're responsible for returning the book, either by mailing it back, delivering it to the librarian or other chapter officer, or returning it at a chapter meeting. That's all there is to it!

You can also contact our librarian to donate books to the library or to loan any of your books to the library.