Tuesday, May 29, 2012

PinnacleLC Final Data Migration

All final PinnacleLC information will be copied out of PrairieCat for their new Polaris system.

On Thursday, June 7, 2012 (All Day)

Ø Do NOT Check In or OUT any items owned by a Pinnacle Library.

Ø Do NOT Check Out to any Pinnacle Library Patron.

Lockport, Romeoville &  Crest Hill / Lemont / Plainfield / Shorewood-Troy / Joliet Main & Black Road

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Migration Dates

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.

Friday, May 18, 2012

MOVED

The Juvenile magazines will be moved to the west wall in the children's room.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

There was a mandatory pre-bid meeting on Tuesday, May 15. The Architect provided information pertinent to our construction project. Some of the contractors will be sending sub-contractors i.e. electricians, plumbers, etc. through the building in order to get prepare an accurate bid.

There may be different people walking around and taking notes. Some of these sub-contractors may want to look at the back areas of the library. Please let me know if they ask to come back and if I'm not around please bring them to a manager. Someone will accompany this individual into the staff areas.

Also, we have hired two construction advisers, Norm and Dan Eallonardo. Some staff have been introduced but Norm and Dan are here sporadically so I'm sure most of you haven't met them.
Norm and Dan have free range of the building even the staff areas. I will try to point them out to you when they are here.

As always, if you have questions, please ask me.

Friday, May 4, 2012

Construction Bids

The bid packets are now available for General Contractors. If anyone calls to pick up a packet, please tell them it's available at

Midwest Digital Blueprint
215 East 9th Street, Lockport.
The company phone number is 815-588-0943.

Please do NOT say anything else about the project, give no further information as the State of Illinois considers that "providing insiders information".... very bad in the eyes of the State.

Youth Service EZ Readers Changes

The EZ Readers in the Youth Service department have been tweaked. All reading levels are now interfiled. Popular CHARACTERS have been filed together. Some of the new catagories for easier browsing and shelving are: Super Heroes, Starwars, Barbie, Peanuts, Strawberry Shortcake, Scooby Doo, Lego, Thomas the Tank Engine, the various holidays, Disney, Eloise, Curious George, and Blue's Clues. We hope these changes will make it easier for everyone to find what they want. Also, please keep an eye out for any EZ books with these characters so they may be recataloged/spine labled.