SirsiDynix Project Manager's Weekly Unicorn Project Status Report #16

Unicorn Project Status Report

Note: New and/or revised information is italicized.

Status Report Date: 06/23/2006
Site Name: Memphis Public Library (24 libraries)
Client Contact: Steve Foster
Go-Live Date: 03/15/07
Software Release: GL 3.0

Project Manager: Amanda Little
Implementation Team: Damon Hunter, Jenny Hendrickson, Patty Suessen, Diane Cunningham
Sales Representative: Laurie Chase

Major Activities/ Meetings Completed
Weekly call: Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Diane joined the weekly call to discuss the cataloging and circulation summits that will take place in July.
Quality control checks completed on the production server.
Jenny has completed the data preparation.
Laurie is working with Steve on how best for the library to receive Unicorn admin training.

Activities/ Meetings Scheduled for Next Week
Weekly call: Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Continue practicing using the test server.

Outstanding Issues

Project Status:

Event	Status	Completion Date	Notes:
Schedule	Completed	01/24/06
Hardware Install	Completed	04/18/06
Software	Completed	06/02/06
Policies/Profiling	Completed	05/25/06
Data	On Schedule		Test load to be completed 8/10/06. Production load 3/14/07
SirsiDynix Training	On Schedule		Second week of training is August 28-31.
Go Live	On Schedule

News from ALA in NOLA

SirsiDynix announced the 5 winners of its first annual "Building Better Communities" awards at the American Library Association's Annual Conference in New Orleans on Saturday, June 24. The winners include: Calgary Public Library, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Delaware County Community College, Media, PA; Hamilton Public Library, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Hancock County Library System, Bay St. Louis, MS; and INFOhio, Columbus, OH.

Another public library implementation of the Rooms/EPS public catalog and web site interface was also announced by SirsiDynix on Saturday. The Cherry Hill Public Library in Cherry Hill, NJ, will officially go live on their new system later this summer, but a preview is already available on the web.

Rooms-related content in new "SirsiDynix OneSource"

Two articles in the June, 2006 issue of SirsiDynix's electronic newsletter, SirsiDynix OneSource, are likely to be of interest to members of the EPS Team as well as other MPLIC staff concerned with our library's Internet presence:

• "How Can MySpace Inform Library Portal Development?" by Stephen Abram, SirsiDynix vice president of Innovation.
• "The 'Eyes' Have It: Eye-Tracking and Usability Study of SchoolRooms," by Drs. Greg Byerly, Jason Holmes, David Robins, Yin Zang, and Athena Salaba, Kent State University School of Library and Information Science.

A new Rooms/EPS implementation at Bloomington Public Library

What appears to be the first public implementation of SirsiDynix's Enterprise Portal Solution online catalog interface is now live at the Bloomington (IL) Public Library's web site.

The library's main web site is presented in the format of a blog. The catalog and other Rooms content can be accessed by following links from the home page.

SirsiDynix Project Manager's Weekly Unicorn Project Status Report #15

Unicorn Project Status Report

Note: New and/or revised information is italicized.

Status Report Date: 06/15/2006
Site Name: Memphis Public Library (24 libraries)
Client Contact: Steve Foster
Go-Live Date: 03/15/07
Software Release: GL 3.0

Project Manager: Amanda Little
Implementation Team: Damon Hunter, Jenny Hendrickson, Patty Suessen, Diane Cunningham
Sales Representative: Laurie Chase

Major Activities/ Meetings Completed
Weekly call: Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Quiet week in the schedule.

Activities/ Meetings Scheduled for Next Week
Weekly call: Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Quality control checks will be done on the production server.
Jenny will being working with the data.

Outstanding Issues

Project Status:

Event	Status	Completion Date	Notes:
Schedule	Completed	01/24/06
Hardware Install	Completed	04/18/06
Software	Completed	06/02/06
Policies/Profiling	Completed	05/25/06
Data	On Schedule		Test load – 6/23/06 Production load 3/14/07
SirsiDynix Training	On Schedule		Second week of training is August 28-31.
Go Live	On Schedule

SirsiDynix Project Manager's Weekly Unicorn Project Status Report #14

Unicorn Project Status Report

Note: New and/or revised information is italicized.

Status Report Date: 06/09/2006
Site Name: Memphis Public Library (24 libraries)
Client Contact: Steve Foster
Go-Live Date: 03/15/07
Software Release: GL 3.0

Project Manager: Amanda Little
Implementation Team: Damon Hunter, Jenny Hendrickson, Patty Suessen, Diane Cunningham
Sales Representative: Laurie Chase

Major Activities/ Meetings Completed
Weekly call: Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Jenny joined the weekly call to answer data questions.
Test data extraction will take place this weekend

Activities/ Meetings Scheduled for Next Week
Weekly call: Tuesday at 2 p.m.

Outstanding Issues

Project Status:

Event	Status	Completion Date	Notes:
Schedule	Completed	01/24/06
Hardware Install	Completed	04/18/06
Software	Completed	06/02/06
Policies/Profiling	Completed	05/25/06
Data	On Schedule		Test load – 6/23/06 Production load 3/14/07
SirsiDynix Training	On Schedule		Second week of training is August 28-31.
Go Live	On Schedule

Rooms/EPS Project Manager's Weekly Project Status Report #11

Project Status Report
Rooms/EPS and SingleSearch

Note: New and/or revised information is italicized.

Site Name: Memphis Public Library
Report Date: June 6, 2006
Project Team:
• Unicorn Project Manager – Amanda Little
• Rooms/EPS Project Manager – Carol Stennett
• Client/Server Delivery Specialist – Craig Lawrence
• Product Specialist, SingleSearch – Adrianne Peters

Important Deadlines:
• March 15th, 2007 – Go Live on All Products

Tasks Completed
• Rooms/EPS Consulting Workshop scheduled for August 16th and 17th
o Assigned Consultant – Consulting Services
• Rooms Builder Training Scheduled for July 27th
o Assigned Trainer – Andrea Downing, Education Support

Upcoming/Outstanding Tasks for Week of May 22nd
• Review Rooms/EPS installation

MPLIC a finalist for SirsiDynix award

SirsiDynix has announced the 15 finalists for its Building Better Communities Awards, and the Memphis Public Library and Information Center is included in this select group.

The awards are being given to recognize SirsiDynix library customers that have made innovative uses of new technology to improve their user communities. MPLIC's selection is described on SirsiDynix's web site as follows: "The LINC (Library Information Center) service of the Memphis library is a comprehensive community information and referral service for the greater Memphis area. Due in part to the new technologies installed and implemented, LINC now serves as the area’s 2-1-1 provider, which recently served as a vital resource for Katrina evacuees."

MPLIC was selected as a finalist from among 130 nominated libraries by an independent committee of library leaders from throughout Canada and the United States. Five winners will be announced at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans on Saturday, June 24, and will each receive a $10,000 cash award.

Congratulations to Ron Reid and to the entire LINC Department staff for this honor!

Sirsi Implementation Teams: The Director's Station Team

Director's Station is a new statistical analysis tool that should allow the Library to "slice and dice" our ILS data as never before. Planning for our use of Director's Station is scheduled to begin later this year, although the product can not actually be implemented until after we go live on the new Unicorn ILS and begin to collect data.

Role of the Director’s Station Implementation Team:

• To coordinate the implementation of the Director’s Station System
• To identify the requirements for data conversion and transfer
• To identify the requirements for reports and management information
• To identify the requirements for and to coordinate the delivery of staff training
• To identify and make recommendations on potential workflow changes
  

Reporting:

Reports to the Sirsi Implementation Management Team

Membership:

Chair – Fred Bannerman-Williams (North Region)
Co-Chair -Paul Gahn (Automated Services)
Chris Marszalek (South Region)
Dean Moore (Frayser)
Debbie Stevens (East Shelby)

Note: This team may expand to include others.

SirsiDynix Project Manager's Weekly Unicorn Project Status Report #13

Unicorn Project Status Report

Note: New and/or revised information is now italicized.

Status Report Date: 06/02/2006
Site Name: Memphis Public Library (24 libraries)
Client Contact: Steve Foster
Go-Live Date: 03/15/07
Software Release: GL 3.0

Project Manager: Amanda Little
Implementation Team: Damon Hunter, Jenny Hendrickson, Patty Suessen, Diane Cunningham
Sales Representative: Laurie Chase

Major Activities/ Meetings Completed
Weekly call: Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Serials and Acquisitions data mapping charts will be provided on Friday.
Policies were entered.
Oracle was installed on the production server.
Software on the production server was installed.
Laurie is working on Serials Solutions and Admin training pricing that might be need for contract modifications.

Activities/ Meetings Scheduled for Next Week
Weekly call: Tuesday at 2 p.m.

Outstanding Issues

Project Status:

Event	Status	Completion Date	Notes:
Schedule	Completed	01/24/06
Hardware Install	Completed	04/18/06
Software	Completed	06/02/06
Policies/Profiling	Completed	05/25/06
Data	On Schedule		Test load – 6/23/06 Production load 3/14/07
SirsiDynix Training	On Schedule		Second week of training is August 28-31.
Go Live	On Schedule

No Internal Updates

Circulation Trainers get acquainted with Workflows

"Ever had a customer you wanted to clone? In Circulation Workflows you may get your chance."

That's the word from Central Library Circulation Supervisor Becky Graham, a member of both the Circulation and Training & Staff Development Implementation Teams for the Sirsi ILS project. Thanks to Becky, the MPLIC Circulation Services Manual is already being "transposed" from DRA Classic to the Unicorn ILS.

While a final version will have to wait until all policy file decisions have been finalized and the Workflows interface modfied, MPLIC's Circulation Training Team got a preview of the new manual as well as the Workflows interface in a four-hour training session Becky conducted in the Computer Lab on Thursday, June 1. "This is an exciting and interesting adventure for the training team as we train ourselves so that we can train other circulation staff," Becky says.

Sirsi Implementation Teams: The Circulation Team

Role of the Circulation Team:

• To coordinate the implementation of the Circulation function
• To identify the requirements for data conversion and transfer
• To identify the requirements for reports and management information
• To identify the requirements for and to coordinate the delivery of staff training
• To identify and make recommendations on potential workflow change

Reporting:

Reports to the Sirsi Implementation Management Team

Membership:

Chair – Ann Delphin (Central Circulation)
Louise Allen (East Shelby)
Margaret Boyd (Central Circulation)
Paul Gahn (Automated Services)
Sharley Gillespie (Cordova)
Leann Gordy (Bartlett)
Rebecca Graham (Central Circulation)

Sirsi Implementation Teams: The Training and Staff Development Team

Role of the Training & Staff Development Team:

• To implement a Sirsi ILS training plan for the organization
• To identify the requirements for reports and management information
• To identify and make recommendations on potential workflow changes

Reporting:

Reports to the Sirsi Implementation Management Team

Membership:

Chair – Damone Virgilio (Staff Development)
Kevin Dixon (Staff Development)
Leann Gordy (Bartlett)
Becky Graham (Central Circulation)
John Lloyd (Business/Sciences)
Chris Marszalek (South Region)
Theresa Schenk-Webster (LINC)