choosing and migrating to an ils in the 21 st century
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Choosing and Migrating to an ILS in the 21 st Century. LINK ILS History. SCLS Background: May 1993 Dynix installed 1994 GoLive at 19 libraries 1994-2007 LINK expansion: 50 libraries and most of the Dynix modules December 2003 Horizon contract signed - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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SCLS Background:
May 1993 Dynix installed 1994 GoLive at 19 libraries 1994-2007 LINK expansion: 50 libraries and
most of the Dynix modules December 2003 Horizon contract signed March 2007 Horizon development stopped
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April – August 2007 ◦ Conferences and Demos
SirsiDynix Unicorn demo at SCLS Iowa regional users conference for Symphony update ALA vendor demos: Innovative, LibLime, TLC, SirsiDynix WiLSWorld meeting with Equinox
◦ Evaluations and Recommendation Workflow changes required with any new ILS Holds, Codes, Serials and Acquisitions hurdles Recommend further investigation in Spring 2008
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September 07 – March 08◦ Conferences
WLA, CODI and PLA
April 2008◦ Onsite Demos: Innovative, Polaris, SirsiDynix
Migration committees: checklists LINK Library Staffs: surveys Follow up with vendors Reduced to 2 vendors
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June - July 2008◦ Migration Committees to Implementation Team◦ ALA
Vendor meetings for follow up Vendor demos
◦ WiLSWorld WALDO presentation Meeting with LibLime and Koha Demo
◦ Customer Site Visits Winnefox (SirsiDynix Symphony) OWLS (III Millennium)
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September – October 2008◦ LibLime 2-day Scoping Study
Contact potential LibLime customers Contact PTFS (vendor supporting Koha)
◦ Implementation Team evaluates Koha, Millennium and Symphony
◦ Recommendation to replace Dynix with Koha and pursue agreement with LibLime as the implementation and support vendor
◦ LINK Directors approve at October meeting◦ Implementation Team will manage project
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Functionality Software development process Sharing development costs Accelerated development Hosting option Company ownership New customers Customers migrating to other systems Staff retention Costs
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Investment in next ILS must be long term◦ Migration costs and effort are immense
Consortia’s functional development needs ◦ Workflow changes inevitable◦ Library staff join in development projects◦ Learn from and share ideas with Koha community
Vendor-supplied development & support◦ Don’t plan to hire in-house programmers
Lower maintenance allows investment in future development
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Applications Staff planning & organization Migration Committees members and
Implementation Team Vendors’ time and effort = $$$ Winnefox and OWLS Staffs
References: Marshall Breeding’s Library Technology Guides
at: www.librarytechnology.org Breeding, Marshall “Perceptions 2008: An
International Survey of Library Automation” www.librarytechnology.org/perceptions2008.pl
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Cibbarelli, Pamela “Helping You Buy ILSs” Computers in Libraries October 2008 pp7-53
Boss, Richard W. “Open Source Integrated Library System Software” revised December 14, 2008 http://www.lita.org/ala/mgrps/divs/pla/plapublications/platechnotes/OpensourceILS.pdf
Migration to come… Don’t crow till you’re out of the woods. (old Irish proverb)