SirsiDynix Project Manager's Weekly Status Report #24

Unicorn Project Status Report

Note: New and/or revised information is italicized.

Status Report Date: 08/25/2006
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
Introduction to Central Search Call on Friday at 1pm Central.
Amanda provided a Central Search demo site to the library.
Amanda has requested from the scheduling department time in November to work with Margaret on Collection Exchange.
Amanda has been providing answers for Rooms/EPS questions.
Library can begin using the production sever for data review.
Amanda is checking on the status of the contract mod for training.
Alan asked for details about the Rooms/EPS content.

Activities/ Meetings Scheduled for Next Week
Begin looking at the test data load on the production server.
Second week of on-site training.
Work on connection and customization spreadsheet for Central Search.

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-Sept. 1.
Go Live	On Schedule

New links in sidebar for EPS and other Sirsi OPAC sites

Several new implementations of Rooms/EPS have gone live in the last couple of months, and more should be up and running soon. For this reason, the links in the blog's sidebar are being revised. The Rooms/EPS demo site link will be replaced by a list of links to Rooms/EPS sites (live and demonstration/training). The Sirsi OPAC examples link will be replaced by a list of links to iBistro sites. Although our library will not be implementing iBistro, these sites are still worth reviewing as some of their OPAC functionality has not yet made it into the EPS catalog, though "catalog parity" (to use SirsiDynix's phrasing) is expected with the next release of the software in December.

Rooms/EPS sites

Last updated 2/19/08.

Live implementations:

Boston Public Library School Rooms
Boston Public Library does not currently use EPS for its OPAC, but it has implemented School Rooms to support K-12 educational activities in the community.

Cerritos College Library

Chandler Public Library

Cherry Hill Public Library

Hattiesburg Public Library

Knox County Public Library
At present, KCPL links to EPS/Rooms from their "old" site.

Oxnard Public Library
This library also links to Rooms from a pre-existing web site.

Vigo County Public Library

Warren-Newport Public Library
This library currently links to a "sneak peek" of their new Rooms site from their old site.

Demonstration & training sites:

Rooms
SirsiDynix's public library-focused demonstration site.

SchoolRooms
A demonstration site for K-12 school libraries.

Other Sirsi OPAC examples

There are numerous implementations of Sirsi's earlier web catalog interface for the Unicorn ILS, iBistro, which include many of the enhanced OPAC features we expect to have with EPS. Here are a few examples:

Anne Arundel County Public Library
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Fairfax County Public Library
Kansas City Public Library
Knox County Public Library

If you have any difficulty accessing any of these sites, please let me know.

SirsiDynix Project Manager's Weekly Status Report #23

Unicorn Project Status Report

Note: New and/or revised information is italicized.

Status Report Date: 08/18/2006
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.
Amanda and a trainer have completed quality control checks on the production server.
Amanda has requested from the scheduling department time in November to work with Margaret on Collection Exchange.
Amanda updated the schedule.
Upgrade to GL3.1 has been schedule for September 11th.
Pam was onsite for the Rooms workshop August 16-17.

Activities/ Meetings Scheduled for Next Week
No weekly call.

Outstanding Issues
Get library logo put into Rooms.

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

Project milestones in July and August

Although there have not been many blog posts in the last few weeks (except for the regular weekly status reports from SirsiDynix), the summer has been a busy one for members of our Implementation Teams as well as SirsiDynix personnel. Important recent events and accomplishments include:

• Three productive summits were held with Diane Cunningham, our SirsiDynix Sure Start Consultant, who will be working closely with us through our Go Live date and beyond. As a result of these meetings, we are making adjustments to the onsite training schedule. These changes are still in development but will have an immediate impact on our second week of Sirsi training, coming up at the end of August, with our two days of Serials training moving to that week.
  
• Members of the EPS Team, along with other MPLIC web content providers, attended a day-long training session on the Rooms Builder, Sirsi's web site content management system and catalog customization tool.
• Data was extracted from our current DRA Classic ILS, and Jennifer Hendrickson, Senior Data Conversion Programmer, began working on a test load of this data onto our production server for the Unicorn ILS. This load is expected to be completed by August 10.

Upcoming milestones in August in addition to those already mentioned will include:

• A 2-day Rooms Planning Workshop, intended to provide our EPS Team with an understanding of the methodology, default layout and design, and recommended processes for EPS/Rooms, will be presented by a SirsiDynix consultant on August 16-17.
• SirsiDynix will copy the test data load from the production server to a test server by August 28, at which point Paul Gahn and the Data Migration Team will start on the critical taskof reviewing the test data, a process that will continue over the next five months.

Screenshot image used courtesy of SirsiDynix.

SirsiDynix Project Manager's Weekly Status Report #22

Unicorn Project Status Report

Note: New and/or revised information is italicized.

Status Report Date: 08/04/2006
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.
Jenny is finishing the test load on the production server.
Paul is working with Diane on when to schedule a consulting call on how to review a test data load.
Alan returned the Rooms workshop questionnaire, and Amanda has passed this along to the consultant.

Activities/ Meetings Scheduled for Next Week
Weekly call Tuesday at 2pm. Topic to discuss, intention for use of Collection Exchange.
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

SirsiDynix Project Manager's Weekly Status Report #21

Unicorn Project Status Report

Note: New and/or revised information is italicized.

Status Report Date: 07/27/2006
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.
Thomas Leimkuehler joined the weekly call to discuss Rooms Builder training.
Thursday -- Rooms Builder training.
Jenny is working on loading and indexing data on the production server.

Activities/ Meetings Scheduled for Next Week
Weekly call Tuesday at 2pm.
Jenny will finish up the test load on the production server.
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