2017 Charleston Library Conference

Preserving the integrity and improving the quality of the catalog data as it is extracted from ExLibris’ Aleph, broken down, moved to California, and re-built in Innovative Sierra on the west coast has been a concentration of our department’s and all the Florida public colleges’ and universities’ library work this year. I was excited to learn ExLibris’ ILS and am working to maintain and improve the functionality of our catalog’s data as it’s moved over to Sierra. Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative’s revised, projected date for “go-live” is July 2018, and two in my department are have working group assignments.

Discussing the hierarchical structure to implement a library catalog and discovery migration in a statewide, shared, single bibliographic record environment, or how the migration works could each take up a presentation. The shared working groups’ efforts, structure, tasks, assignments, troubles, data review, and data review techniques, training, accomplishments, efficiencies, schedules, investments, minutes, software (Wiki, Drop Box, Google tools, Canvas, Blackboard) is the focus of my presentation. And locally, how we’re managing and what we’re anticipating. Our department still added 2,800 new print/e-titles (nothing packaged), embarked on a textbook purchasing program, attended to collection development and maintenance, and retrospectively developed the collection to support new certificates and master's level programs.