Answers to those burning questions

April 17th …These are Connie’s answers to the questions that many of you have been asking…

1. All uploads of MARC records to Follett should now be complete! You will get information the week of May 5th about the next steps.
2. Once your MARC record upload is finished you CANNOT MAKE ANY CHANGES to the data that you have submitted. Thus, no weeding, inventory, deletion of old records, etc. NO CHANGES PLEASE! This will mess things up with your records when your data is returned.
NOTE: The following information was updated with a new time line from Connie D. – only MARC records will be “frozen.” Patron transactions can be done until the end of school…however, patron transactions will not move into the new Destiny Server. Any books, fines etc wil need to be added manually after the new system is up and running on the new server on June 20, 2008
3. If you receive new books, you may add them to your catalog up until 5/16. After Follett completes the last extract of information you cannot even work in Cir/Cat.
4. After 5/16 all check in/out will be severely limited because you will not have access to Follett Cat/Circ or Destiny. Check in can be done with Follett Remote, but check out would have to be done on paper and pencil (unless you have SASI numbers in barcode form.)
5. Usually by 5/16 things with your circulation should be slowing down some. Please know that you can’t run any reports, record fines, etc. after that date through your old system. The Remote program is extremely simple but will require your keeping printed records of many transactions. So, the slower you can make things for yourself the better.
6. There really isn’t any time in this process that your media center cannot be open so please don’t tell your principals that the district office said you must be closed. There are times that I will be asking them to make room in your schedules for you to have uninterrupted time to complete some of the tasks that are necessary.

This year you are exempt from doing an inventory! Thanks for all of your efforts,
More later…
Connie