We know more details now about the key PrairieCat migration milestones for June and July. Our final migration to Innovative will be a rolling schedule, and here are the highlights:
June 1 - 25, 2012: PrairieCat library staff should refrain from adding any new bibliographic, item or authority records to the PrairieCat Symphony database because they will not be migrated to Innovative. Any records you do add, will also need to be added to the Innovative database once we go live for cataloging (double-entry in both Symphony and then Sierra).
June 25, 2012: PrairieCat libraries Go Live on Sierra for cataloging only.
June 22, 2012: PrairieCat libraries Go Live on Sierra for acquisitions (existing acquisitions libraries) and serials.
June 29, 2012: final extraction of the patron database from PrairieCat. Each library will be asked to have added sufficient "blank" user barcodes to Symphony before this date to be able to issue barcodes to new patrons over the few days of the circulation migration. Those user records will then be completed in Sierra after we go live.
July 1, 2012 (after libraries close): final extraction of circulation data from PrairieCat.
July 2 and 3, 2012: PrairieCat libraries on Sierra offline circulation. No holds will be allowed during this period.
Thursday, July 5, 2012: PrairieCat libraries Go Live on Sierra for circulation.
More details about each of these milestones will be shared as we get closer, but this gives you an overview of our final migration process.
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