Debra Jones, State Library of WA Streamlining the RIS Process …. or getting all the ducks in a row

Starting point…  Libraries Australia March newsletter included the article “Vendor partnerships – the Libraries Australia and Alma story”

Aims…  To identify a model that all Sierra libraries could adopt  Reduce manual intervention  Acknowledge the importance of Libraries Australia

First steps….  Libraries Australia reviewed our data quality  Examination of our existing process  Talked to III about our options  Upgraded Sierra

What we did next…  Re-wrote our procedure  Created new saved searches  Created new scheduled jobs  Set up an export process

Wednesday  New Bibs, New Holdings and Updated Bib lists are created automatically  Updated Bib records are automatically sent to LA Thursday  New Bib and New Holdings are automatically exported to LA  Holdings tag manually added to New Bib and New Holdings Friday  Deleted holdings list is automatically created and sent to LA Monday  Deleted holdings are removed form Sierra

What we’d still like to do…  Consider more frequent contribution  Automation of the deletion process on the local database

What we learnt …