We're Moving!

An important ILS milestone was achieved on August 29th. A copy of all the data from our Geac PLUS system was transferred to Innovative Interfaces Inc. This is essentially moving the library data to a new home. The moving van has taken our first load of boxes (data) and now Innovative will take this raw data, massage it, and then transfer it to our Millennium server. We can be proud that Pam Skittino made this happen 25 days before the deadline.

Our new server will arrive and be installed just before the October 23rd - 25th training. October is when we start moving into the new home, rearranging, making sure we can find things, and settling in. We will set up parameters (rules) for the new system and then test the parameters and settings to make sure things will work correctly when we "Go Live" in early 2008.

After the October training session, this data will be available for us to use while practicing on Millennium and it will not have any effect on patrons or items in the Geac PLUS system.

Here are some counts of the data that was transferred:
Bibliographic records - 238,009 titles with 328,883 items
Name authority records - 153,098
Subject authority records - 51,862
Circulation transactions:
58,103 checkouts
10,494 holds
61,022 fine records
53,344 patron records