The Project

Destiny has arrived more quickly that we might have expected, but then the end of the year is also right around the corner, too. I hope that the “Implementation Team,” as we are called, will be able to make this conversion to Destiny as painless as possible.http://destiny.charleston.k12.sc.us is the link for the 6 pilot schools destiny pages. They are available only within the CCSD firewall, meaning at a CCSD school. When you have your own school site, you will have a log in and see many more tabs for cataloging and reports.

Lexile Levels

We have heard that the the entire district paid for the Lexile Service and it is simple to run the update process once Destiny is up and running. It is an enhancement to the Destiny Product. Hope that makes your principals happy.

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