Welcome to the MYDAS Meeting September 30, 2015

MYDAS Agenda ILS Migration October 5-7th eResource Central refresher Internet Safety for Minors discussion HANDOUTS 2016 Calendar of Library Closed Days Email Notification Signup

ILS Migration October 5th-7th Current server purchased in 2007 and is now 8 yrs old Solaris operating system is expensive and difficult to maintain We have contracted with Sirsidynix for their hosting services called SAAS which stands for Software As A Service Our data will reside on servers in Atlanta and SirsiDynix will maintain the hardware, operating system, do backups and monitoring. Mid York will maintain the library application aka Workflows/Unicorn/Symphony

Mid York’s Server Room

Mid York’s Off-Site Server

SirsiDynix’s SAAS Facility http://www.qtsdatacenters.com/data_centers/southeast/atlanta_ga.aspx https://youtu.be/phWSwuXQZrA

BEFORE Monday, October 5th Make sure the Configuration screen shows when opening Workflows: Preference  Configuration ‘ Show this window on next startup’ MUST be checked

Monday, October 5th 8:00AM services will be stopped and SirsiDynix will create a snapshot of all of our data Approximately10:00AM services will be started and users can login to existing server unicorn.midyork.org or 192.168.100.20 with existing username and password Available Workflows services will be CheckOut, Discharging, Renew User ,Renew Item, Paying Bills, Display User, Check Item Status, Item Search and Display, Other available services will be the Internet, Cassie, Envisionware, Overdrive, Self-Checkout, Enterprise (No My Account, or Place Holds), Media247

Monday, October 5th Unavailable services: Place Hold, Modify Hold, Remove Hold, Pull-Lists, Discharge Bookdrop, User Registration, Modify User, Renew Privilege, Call Number and Item Maintenace (inventorying or modifying items), Cataloging, Reports, My Account and Place Hold in Enterprise, Bookmyne, E-Library

Screenshot denying access to unavailable services

Tuesday, October 6th All Day Login to existing server unicorn.midyork.org or 192.168.100.20 with existing username and password Available Workflows services will be CheckOut, Discharging, Renew User ,Renew Item, Paying Bills, Check Item Status, Item Search and Display, Display User, User Registration Other available services will be the Internet, Cassie, Envisionware, Overdrive, Self-Checkout, Enterprise (No My Account, or Place Holds), Media247

Wednesday, October 7th Time Unknown I will send an email message and will call when SirsiDynix gives us the green light Change Configuration Host Information Login with existing username and password

After Workflows is fully functional we will work on getting the other services operational which are: Reports, Printing and Email Notification Cassie Envisionware Overdrive Enterprise Online Bill Pay Self Checkout Media247 3M RFID Wowbrary Mobilecirc Bookmyne

Next MYDAS meeting SPRING 2016! WRAP-UP Thanks for coming! Next MYDAS meeting SPRING 2016!