Re: [IUG] Acquisitions - to migrate or not

["Burke, Patricia" <PBurke at vts dot edu>]

Sean and Michael,
   This is what we did also...only vendor records.  Our old system had
the bibs and dummy items in them anyway and Millennium was so fast that
it was easy to recreate the order records, or just leave in the dummies
until the item was received.  It went very smoothly.

Pat

Patricia Burke
Bishop Payne Library
Virginia Theological Seminary
pburke at vts dot edu
703-461-1794

 

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[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Nitz, Michael
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [IUG] Acquisitions - to migrate or not

Hi Sean,

We migrated Acquisitions from GEAC to Millennium in 2005.  We migrated
over our vendor records.  We did not migrate open orders.  Our orders
are attached to bib records brought into the system from OCLC as part of
a pre-order search, so those records migrated along with the rest of our
bibs and items.  It was our intent to run the two acquisition systems at
the same time until we could close out our past year on the old system.
We would then create an order in Milacq for those items still on order.

But, once we got up and running, the staff found Milacq so much less
time-consuming that they offered to recreate all of the open orders and
close down the GEAC acquisitions server much, much sooner.

Michael Nitz

Michael L. Nitz
Head, Technical Services
Appleton (WI) Public Library
920-832-6184 / mnitz at apl dot org / 920-832-6182 (fax)
www.apl.org


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[mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Bearly, Sean
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:30 PM
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
Subject: [IUG] Acquisitions - to migrate or not

We are just starting the migration from Horizon to Millennium. Our go
live date will be in early July - pretty much coinciding with the end of
our fiscal year. We had decided not to migrate Acquisitions but want to
be sure we are not making a mistake. Baker & Taylor is our primary
vendor and does our cataloging for us. We don't carry funds from one
fiscal year to the next. We have a lot of anscient data in the Horizon
acq module we don't want to carry over to Millennium and acq staff think
it will be an easy thing to add the few vendors we have into the
Millennium acq module in order to start fresh and they see no benefit to
migrating anything to Millennium. It makes sense to me but I wanted to
ask if any Millennium users would offer an opinion on this. Has anyone
migrated from another vendor without migrating your acq data? 

Sean Bearly
Library Information Systems Coordinator
Newport Beach Public Library
1000 Avocado Avenue
Newport Beach, CA 92660
949-717-3820
 



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