Eight Conference Call

With the canceling of last week’s call due to a sudden Sirsi meeting that took our Project Manager’s time and attention for that afternoon, we went about our task of the week’s checkup and discussion. Network is still not up and continues to plague the installation. We didn’t dwell on that too much. Questions have arisen about the serials data. What data is migrating, bibs and controls, etc? Some of the libraries are concerned that they may have to reenter much information. Sirsi is concerned because their experience is that serials data does not load very well and usually has to be redone anyway. The librarians will have to see for themselves after the first test load. The training for the Implementation team in November has been finalized and scheduled. With the policy work done, I can now begin on the data mapping. I have received the spreadsheets of data retrieved from the three existing systems and will complete a separate map for all three. Whoopee.