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End users from three of our institutions are now using PASCAL Delivers!
Winthrop University, the College of Charleston and Clemson have opened the service to their users on an informal basis. Some of the feedback: “It seems easy to use and end users are amazed at the three-day turnaround time.” The other members of our initial “soft launch” group – Coastal Carolina, USC and The Citadel – are supplying material, but have not yet opened service to students or faculty. Coastal may begin taking faculty requests the week of October 9, and we’re expecting that the others will follow soon.
In August, we had projected that the
next libraries to start up would be drawn from the ranks of our other
early testing partners and SCILs on the Sirsi side of our house. We
expected that the next III libraries would be the USC senior and
regional campuses. In both cases, we ran into some challenges. With
partners in our libraries, we’ve identified our problems and are
working to overcome them. In both cases, the problems we’ve encountered
are not insurmountable, but they have held us up.
I noted in August that our goal was to achieve a “critical mass” that would allow us to launch the service in January, but that there might be changes in the line up. That’s turned out to be the case. To sustain momentum, we’ve moved the next group of libraries up in our queue, and will be working with four additional III libraries: Francis Marion University, South Carolina State University, Florence Darlington Technical College, and Aiken Technical College. These libraries will have their profiling and bibliographic record loads scheduled in October, with testing and training in November and December. We are still working with Sirsi technical colleges and the USC campuses this fall, although there are dependencies and scheduling conflicts that will make it difficult to bring most of them up in time for the public January launch. It looks as if they will be in line for training at the start of the spring semester. We will be setting up a meeting with Sirsi library directors and systems librarians through a separate email. The main agenda will be a discussion of some of the options available to us for working with patron data in the direct consortial borrowing client arena. If you'd like to see what the catalog is looking like these days, or to begin reviewing our growing stock of documentation materials, please check it out here: http://www.pascalcat.org/ We will also be at SCLA and the Carolinas Innovative Users’ group. As always, please don’t hesitate to ask questions of us! Richard H. Moul PASCAL Executive Director (803) 777-1327 This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it http://pascalsc.org SHARED ACCESS. UNLIMITED KNOWLEDGE |