Updated Purpose Statements

Oakland Animal Services.
Purpose: To increase adoption rates at the Oakland Animal Shelter by making information more readily available to users. To come up with a system that better displays the available dogs at the shelter; to create a more visual and interactive system for evaluating and understanding the various needs of the dogs.
1. "USERS": primary users; beneficiaries; stakeholders
Potential adopters; workers and volunteers at oakland animal services; the various animals who are housed and available
2. "ENVIRONMENT: the location, setting; context;
Oakland Animal Services is located in Oakland, CA. in a slightly out of the way place.
1101 29th Avenue, Oakland, California 94601

The setting is an animal shelter that houses dogs, cats, rabbits, and various other animals. The public can come to view these animals during business hours and adopt.
3. "RESOURCES": references; literature; comparisons; expert sources; etc.

My sources would potentially be the workers at the Oakland Animal Services (volunteers, workers, animal control officers), and potential adopters who come into the shelter.

Animal Shelter Magazine:

http://www.animalsheltering.org/

An article discussing No Kill shelter reform:

http://www.shelterreform.org/Wingrad.html

This website a student put together filled with reviews of various shelter activies:

http://www.squidoo.com/animalshelter