Well, as of 4 o’clock, our old Clio system
has been taken off-line and Jennifer Perkins is going to load our database into
the new version over the weekend.
As those of you who have seen it
demonstrated, this new Clio is the first ILL management system that has been
developed to interoperate with BLDSS. So we get the benefits of the new
functionality within British Library’s new Document Supply Service whilst, at
the same time, being able to administer our requests using our ILL management
system.
When we first implemented Clio after the
demise of Lancaster’s ILLOS, it came in three interconnected modules which we
found quite challenging to get used to, but the new version comes as an all in
one package. Our Clio will also be hosted by the supplier, just like ILLOS was,
which takes a bit of the worry out of the maintenance and future upgrades.
Over the past few weeks Jennifer has
supplied some nifty apps to cleanup any erroneous records in our database and
has provided a ‘live’ test system, linking to the BLDSS test system for us to
have play. This week I have also had the opportunity to customise the text
within the various messages and notifications.
If you have seen the system demonstrated
you’ll appreciate that we are now looking forward to having a go for real….but
if any of you receive any ‘odd messages’ form Huddersfield, I’ll apologies
beforehand…and do let us know so that we can put them right.
Fingers crossed for Monday!
And we’ll keep you posted!
Weekend starts here so I’m settling down
with a cuppa before I get in the garden.
Chris
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