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Hello, A colleague of mine is surveying the group and individual study spaces in our libraries. The purpose is to collect information about the spaces such as whether the rooms have whiteboards, whether they need to be repainted, whether the carpet needs to be replaced, type of technology in the room, is it reservable, etc. etc. So: inventory of rooms, room properties & items, along with actions tied to rooms (upgrade, repair, replace, etc.). Up until now, our library hasn't had a system in place for collecting and storing this level information. After meeting with her, the quick & sufficient option I'm looking at doing is designing a simple database with a few tables and controlled vocabulary and data entry forms that will make data collection more efficient and future queries easier. However, it occurs to me that someone on this list may be aware of an application that has already been developed and serves almost the same purpose. I've done some googling, but haven't found anything yet. The closest I've come is the Learning Space Toolkit from NCSU, but there doesn't appear to be a study space inventory data collection tool. If anyone is aware of a turnkey solution or something close, I'd really appreciate it! Our library IT department is excellent, so if it requires spinning up a server for Drupal or python/Django/postgres or similar, that is within our capabilities. I can't get too complicated, though, because there's some time pressure to start collecting data. Thank you! Steve Koch University Libraries, University of New Mexico