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PASCAL Delivers (Universal Borrowing) Implementation Schedule Announced |
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We are planning for the formal launch of the
"PASCAL Delivers" service for August 2006! This is our working name for
the universal borrowing system built on the Innovative Interfaces
InnREACH system and the statewide materials delivery RFP.
Here
is our revised project timeline. It outlines major elements of our
implementation and training plan. This schedule is based discussions in
December/Early January between PASCAL and Innovative staff, the chair
of the PASCAL Universal Borrowing Committee, and our implementation
consultant (Debbi Schaubman from the Michigan Electronic Library). We
will be refining this schedule further, but the events in red represent
firm targets.
We will be contacting members over the next
several weeks in order to begin developing each library~Rs schedule for
bibliographic loading, training and implementing universal borrowing
using the new system.
- January - Pilot Group Testing (In-House Testing)
Bibliographic Profiling
Development of Initial Load Schedule
- February - Outreach and Library Awareness Campaign
Release of Delivery RFP
- Feb. - May III/Sirsi Library Database Loads
- April - Delivery Vendor Selection
- May 8 - 12 Training the Trainers (from libraries in the soft-start)
- May 19 - 22 Innovative Interfaces Users~R Group (Denver)
- June ~SSoft Start~T Delivery Service (@ week of June 5)
- June - Dec Training for implementing libraries
- June - August III/Sirsi Library Database Loads
- August - Formal Launch for PASCAL Delivers (specific date t.b.d.)
- September - Load other ILS system libraries
- December - Interim Review of PASCAL Delivers Procedures/Profiles
Please
feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns about
this change, the timeline, or the "PASCAL Delivers" program generally.
As always, many thanks for your enduring support for all things PASCAL.
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