1. Keeping Studbook Keepers Up-to-date with the latest News Flashes!
Studbook Keeper News!
Keeping Studbook Keepers Up-to-date with the latest News Flashes!

2. What is Studbook Keeper News?
First step towards the community-developed ZIMS vision of integrated, far-more efficient and timely studbook data
Previously Studbook Keepers had to rely on institutions responding to periodic questionnaires to provide updated data on their species of interest
Studbook Keeper News allows studbook keepers to easily see the current, or historical, events for their species as entered by institutions into their own animal records on ZIMS.

3. Why Does it Matter? Many studbooks are a few years behind in events
Impacts management recommendations, especially for species with short generation periods
Many breeding recommendations are relying on outdated information

4. Historical Data
Also allows checking for historical data on their species
More institutions are joining Species360 and incorporating their data, some which may be quite old, into the Species360 database
Studbook Keeper News allows studbook keepers to close some missing gaps and solve pedigree mysteries

5. Into the Future
Studbook Keeper News is a working prototype for future, more automatic, studbook updating within ZIMS
Starting with basic studbook-information- update service now

6. How do Studbook Keepers get Studbook Keeper News?
Institutions
Need to give their staff members who are Studbook Keepers access to ZIMS by making them a ZIMS Users and providing login status
Regional Associations –
Need to provide Species360 with an updated list
Studbook Keeper name
Studbook Keeper’s institution
Species covered by the studbook

7. Regional Association Studbook Keeper Setup – the winner
Regional Association logs into ZIMS and adds existing ZIMS Users as your regional studbook keepers
Species360 can provide training to do this
Species360 will work with institutions to get their studbook keepers appropriate ZIMS access
Studbook Keepers cannot be added until they have ZIMS access at their facilities

8. Regional Association Studbook Keeper Setup – second place
Regional Association sends Species360 an Excel, or similar file, of their studbook keepers and Species360 will set them up for Species360 member institutions
Studbook Keeper name
Studbook Keeper’s institution
Species covered

9. Regional Association Studbook Keeper Setup – third best
Regional Association does not contact Species360 with the information
Species360 will fill in the information with the best data we currently have available to us
Difficult and costly for Species360 to track studbooks assigned by each Regional Association
Currently 20 Regional Associations with studbooks
AZA has ~700 managed studbooks

10. What will Associations See? (This is hypothetical information)

11. What will ZIMS Users See? (This is hypothetical information)

12. What will Studbook Keepers See?

13. What will Studbook Keepers See?
Green arrows to the right – Acquisitions by Move In, Births, Accessions from non-Species360 members
Red arrows to left – Dispositions by Move Out, Deaths
Can attach images to records. Can see a move between Peoria Zoo and Cleveland Zoo has been recorded by each facility

14. Refining What is Displayed
Institution
Review activity for a single institution
Single Animal
Review Activity for a single animal
Event Type
Birth
Death
Move
Event Date Range
When the event occurred
Useful for recent activity
Recorded Date Range
When the event was recorded
Useful for catching historical activity

15. All the news that’s fit to print!
Studbook Keeper News