2. Converting from a Single Site to a Multi Site & Multilingual WebCat Sara Pritchard 5 September 2001

3. Agenda Background to Linklaters & Alliance Project Objectives Project Route Further Development Our Experiences

4. Background to Linklaters & Alliance A firm with over 2200 lawyers and other fee earners 32 offices covering the world’s major financial and business centres Operating in 18 countries Supported by 70 Information Officers

5. Linklaters & Alliance Offices

6. Background to Unicorn Installed September 1991 currently holds over 24,500 catalogue records use Acquisitions, Serials, Circulation and Cataloguing Modules as well as Webcat Circulate our journals, approximately 1500 with control records system upgrade was required to reflect the growth of the firm and to update the interfaces

7. Project Objectives Replace CHUI with new Workflows platform convert from a single site to a multi site library installation of a test server system support and backed up by our IT Department in Colchester implement multilingual WebCat

8. Project started September 00 Rollout Workflows Live Workflows installed on standalone PC Test server deployed Converted test server to multi site Testing of Workflows on test server Workflows deployed on test server Multilingual WebCat Implement on Live server Project Route

9. Further Development Upgrade to Unicorn 2001 planned for October data conversion of German offices training for International offices Marc 21 Z39.50

10. Our Experiences Planning is paramount, you can’t plan enough, make sure you get your IT department on ‘your side’ need test server testing scripts Flexible… plan for the unexpected

11. Any Questions?

12. contacts: sara.pritchard@linklaters.com Unicorn Systems Administrator graham.french@linklaters.com Project Manager