Managing a Three-Ring Circus upgrading Aleph, implementing Primo, and maintaining support for a quarter million users Kevin J. Collins & Allie Verbovetskaya CUNY Office of Library Services IGeLU 2014 | Oxford, UK | September 16, 2014
Big Apple 1 city 5 boroughs 8.2 million residents (in 1,214 km²) 120 institutions of higher education – 20% of those are part of the City University of New York (CUNY)
College of Staten Island Kingsborough CC Brooklyn College Medgar Evers College NYCCT York College Queens College LaGuardia CC CUNY Law Macaulay Honors College John Jay College Queensborough CC Guttman CC Borough of Manhattan CC Hostos CC Bronx CC Lehman College City College Hunter College Public Health Journalism SPS Grad Center Baruch College
Big University 1 university system, 24 campuses – 11 senior colleges – 7 community colleges – 5 graduate and professional schools – The Macaulay Honors College 6,700 full-time teaching faculty 540,000 students
Big Library Committees 1 central library office, 21 individual libraries 14 library committees -7 Aleph-related -1 SFX -1 Primo implementation -1 EZproxy -4 e-resource & infrastructure
Big Dreams Upgrade Aleph (v18 to v21) Support 21 libraries Implement Primo Coming summer 2014!
Big Surprises Greetings from NYC!
ALEPH UPGRADE
Application Server 1 libadmin.cuny.edu Aleph Exadata database Load Balancer libsearch.cuny.edu Application Server 2 Primo / PDS PC GUI, Z39.50, self-check, OCLC Connexion WWW Users (HTTP, X-Service, Z39.50) Shared disc /exlibris/aleph/* Environment
U-Tree Stage Aleph 21 Production Aleph 18 Config / DB Test Aleph 21 Production Aleph 21 Phase 2: July , 2014 Phase 1: March/April 2014 Config / DB Phase 3: July , 2014 Config / DB Project Plan
Centralized Resource Center
Centralized Resource Center (cont’d)
Gotchas
Aleph Publishing for Primo job_list ! Publishing for Primo - p_publish_06 W1 12:05:00 Y CUN01 p_publish_06 CUN01,PRIMO-FULL,LAST-DATE, , , , ,, /exlibris/primo_publishing,Y,16,/exlibris/primo_publishing/scratch,Y /xxx01/prof_library setenv p_publish_06_block20000
PRIMO IMPLEMENTATION
Rigging Primo procurement Advisory committee – Small – Representative Branding – Name – Logo
Execution Primo certification at ELUNA Ex Libris training Aleph cleanup Input from advisory committee
Finale Usability testing Soliciting & incorporating feedback Continuing to improve UI
Current UI
Proposed UI
Words of Wisdom Ask questions Get your hands dirty Check your setup Nag Ex Libris Be flexible
SUPPORT MAINTENANCE
Business as Usual …with improvements! – Streamlined service requests – Tutorials for answers to frequently asked questions
QUESTIONS?
Kevin Collins Aleph Systems Librarian Allie Verbovetskaya Web & Mobile Systems Librarian