Re: Uploading student patron info via dump file

["Julia Bergman" <jbergman at ccsf dot edu>]

We are a brand new III academic customer and in our contract have specified a real-time interface for patron loads from our college Banner system.  We will populate the III patron record directly from Banner, one at a time, as a student barcode is scanned at the Circulation Desk.  
 
We have been performing batch loads of student records for years and years and years as Dynix customers.  With 100,000 students, many of whom are non-credit, and most of whom, alas, are not library users, we decided that maintaining a patron database of real library users (maybe 10,000-20,000) was the way to go.
 
We will start testing the interface after June 24.  Julia Bergman

>>> cathy_cox at wvmccd dot cc dot ca dot us 4/28/2005 10:58 AM >>>

Doing a patron load in this way has made a HUGE difference to our
Circulation staff workload. Toma Iglehart and I did a presentation at IUG
a couple years back in San Jose on uploading patron records into
Innovative from the administrative system used in our colleges (Datatel).
Some of the information was Datatel-specific, but other parts of the
process should translate to other systems - particularly the planning
process you'll need to go through. I can't remember if the presentation is
on the IUG website, but you can contact me off-list if it's not and I'll
be happy to send you the info.

The big thing to keep in mind is that Innovative supports the process to
the extent that you CAN import records in batches, as long as they're in
one of the specified formats. What III does NOT support is the process by
which your student information system gets that information into one of
the specified formats - your campus IT people may have to create a program
that will extract and format the data properly, and then you can upload
the file via FTS and work with it in your III system.

Cathy Cox
Electronic Resources Librarian
Mission College Library
cathy_cox at wvmccd dot cc dot ca dot us


> rlarmon at law dot usc dot edu 4/27/05 12:31:23 PM >>>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Our law library would like to explore the possibility of uploading
> student
> info (name, address, student ID, etc.) via a central dump file once a
> semester into Innopac rather than manually entering it as we do now.
>
> Is this possible with Innopac, and if so, what are our options?  Does
> III
> charge for something like this or can we do it for free?  Any III
> documentation I can read through?  (Haven't found any yet, still
> looking)
>
> Thanks in advance to any who respond.
>
> Rob
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Robert Larmon
> Assistant Director for Network Services
> USC Law School
> 213-740-2571
> rlarmon at law dot usc dot edu
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