Re: Library leaving a consortium - hypothetical question

[Virginia Scheschy <scheschy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

This isn't exactly the situation you describe, but we had one of our
community colleges in northern Nevada migrate from an Innopac we shared to
Endeavor's Voyager.  They had to buy an output table (the standartd
$2500) and were able to output their bibliographic records with
attached items.  It did not include active circulation data.  They wound
up checking everything back in that they could, then printed out what was
left.  Then those items were checked back in and we deleted their bib and
item records.

They elected to create new patron records because they had done rather a
poor job of maintaining these records over the years, and many were very
outdated.

Virginia


On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jim Gingery wrote:

> 
> I was wondering if any of the III integrated consortiums have had the 
> experience of a member leaving the consortium and getting their own INNOPAC 
> ? We are particularly interested in the process/cost/pain involved. This is 
> purely a hypothetical question.
> 
> Each of the 15 municipalities has their own serials/acq unit.
> 
> One of the libraries contemplates leaving the system and getting a stand 
> alone INNOPAC. They have asked the question what the 
> cost/process/effort/pain this would be to remove their patron and item 
> records from the database. If they moved from one INNOPAC to their own 
> separate INNOPAC, is there any cost over and above the usual migration 
> costs for the single library? I ask this particularly if the move were from 
> one INNOPAC to another INNOPAC, obviously an easier migration than mixing 
> vendors. Would III simply be making a "copy" of the bib records that the 
> single library's records are attached to?
> 
> I believe the major complexity is "What to do with the patrons who have 
> things checked out, both patrons from the single library that have items 
> checked out owned by the consortium, and consortium patrons who have items 
> checked out from the single library. What is done in this case ? How is 
> this done if the patron checking the item in is theoretically no longer in 
> the database ? Or do copies of patron records reside in each database for a 
> short period ?
> 
> If any of you have had experience in this area, I would appreciate knowing 
> your experience. Thanks.
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