Field Trip

We visited the Mullica Hill Branch of the Gloucester County Library in New Jersey today and were able to get a view of Sirsi Unicorn Workflows. The library was once on Dynix and moved over to Unicorn, so we heard some of the trials and tribulations that went into that. Many of the questions I had about the system were answered. Policy work is easy in Workforms, this takes some of the pressure to get everything 100% off of me. The library continues to batch load catalog records from vendor disks rather than using OCLC. The process looks to take about the same amount of time and effort. Still we want to encourage our libraries to use OCLC. Some concerns about the level of tech support and training were raised by the library, but I do not think we will have some of those same issues.