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Date

Attendees

Meeting Recording

Play recording (1 hr 40 min)

Discussion items

TimeItemWhoNotes
20 MinWelcomeLeslie
  • Review of the Core Project Team at Temple
  • Overview of Basecamp for questions and follow-up, etc
  • Higher Level project questions - Cynthia will be point person for all questions
  • Core project team at Ex Libris
  • Overview of Project Team Roles
  Implementation Process and Project Timeline Leslie
  •  Reports and Analytics training in Mid-March
  • On-site workshop will be a lot of reviewing our current processes and reviewing what is possible within Alma
    • Make sure that everything we want to do in Alma is possible


Communication and Documentation
  • Getting Started- Organizational Planning
    • Identify some "change leaders" who can communicate the overall goals and remind people of the big picture
    • Identify trainers - This is important as we move forward - identify designated trainers in each functional area (perhaps this would be Kathy's working group?
  • Review of current workflows
    • cleanup projects prior to test/production loads
    • identify others projects - before golive and after golive
  • Identify GoLive critical needs
    • are there things we don't use in Millennium, but want to use in Alma?
    • things that we can put into a phase 2 or phase 3 for changes after golive
  • Prepping for Migration
    • Data Cleanup
      • need flexibility based on things that come up after the load is done
      • some data cleanup may be easier to do in Alma
    • Technical Requirements - beginning looking at these requirements now
    • Meetings list
      • Weekly project calls - begin in January - Wednesday at 2pm
      • Internal Project Call - Ex Libris team
      • Internal Project call for Our team as well
      • Project Manager meeting - Fridays at 11am
      • Migration Meeting - Monday 10am - 12pm - Walk through migration form
      • Link resolver meeting - January - Look at 360 link/ntota extract
      • Configuration meeting - late January/Early February - discuss policies, loan and fulfillment and acquisition policies
      • Discovery System meetings - could be primo and/or discuss integrations
      • Authentication meeting - sometimes a formal meeting and sometimes just emails
      • 3rd party integrations meeting - will get a document to fill out for all integrations
  • Key Deliverables and goals:
    • all of the todos and deadlines will be available in Basecamp
  • GoLive date is June 29th!
  • Training
    • Essentials training - will be for everyone
    • Fundamentals training - will be for specific people
  • Migrations of Libraries, Locations, Vendors and internal staff users
    • only one load of this data
    • any questions we have should be discussed in the migration meeting if needed
    • we can still make adjustments to the data after its been loaded.

Next Steps

Action items

  • Does the "Sandbox" include prim central/link resolver as well? Cynthia Schwarz (Unlicensed) will ask Ex L
  • Identify "Change Leaders"
  • Identify trainers in each functional area
  • Cynthia Schwarz (Unlicensed) will call a meeting of smaller group to cull all workflow changes that we want to review/implement
  • Start to categorize needs into phases
  • Leslie will talk to Tony about absolute deadline for making decision about fiscal close
  • We'll get information about contract extension from III ASAP
  • Think about internal training for library staff
  • Look in email about importing data from Excel for electronic resources
  • When we have the sandbox, will we also have access to the APIs to pull data out of Alma and into BL?
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