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TALIS
SYMPHONY IMPLEMENTATION
Chris SeamanState Library of Tasmania
COSA Conference October 2010
• Primary Schools 124• Public Lending 43• High Schools 32• District Highs (K-10) 19• Polytechnics (Post Yr 10) 13• Joint (school/public) 7• Government Depts. 6• Reference 4
• Senior Secondary Colleges (11-12) 3
IMPLEMENTATION
• Policy workshop• All project staff trained in all core modules• Selected staff trained in API• 10 representative libraries set up on test
database• Policies determined
POLICIES
• 271 Library Policies• 969 Location Policies• 195 Item Type Policies• 1,422 User Profile Policies• 100 Circ Rule Policies• 3,202 lines in Circ Map• 234 Environment Policies• 446 Logins utilising 431 Property files
DATA CONVERSION
•923,852 Bibliographic MARC records•868,570 Authority MARC records•4,249 MARC Holding records with
library/group specific URLs•4,411,728 items•6,863 Vendors•5,264 Serial Control Records
MAJOR DATA CONVERSION SCENARIOS
•1060 Location •593 Item Type•767 User Profile •834 Call Number strip prefix •1128 Item category 1 (Classification /
Genre) •504 User category 4 (Postcode)
TRAINING
•11 staff developed and presented training
•Over 800 library staff were trained•170 sessions•9 trainees per session•4 concurrent venues•12 weeks
CIRCULATION / TRANSACTION DATA
• 260,977 Users• 556,016 Loans• 35,563 Missing items • 23,708 Items In Transit to home library• 77,388 Holds - open, in transit & awaiting
pickup• 166,834 Outstanding bills