Tuesday, July 16, 2013

WebEx Overview

Innovative is offering a short (2 hour) WebEx session on Sierra from 10 am to noon on Friday, August 2.  The session will include a brief overview of the concepts related to Sierra in preparation for the first training visit later in the month.

Friday, July 5, 2013

Initial Innovative Training Dates

The initial training for Innovative Interface's Sierra will be August 13-15.  This will take place in the Library Classroom at Collier.  This training will be high-level to acclimate us to the product line, terminology, and basic functionality. The schedule is tentative so topics are subject to change.


Training Visit 1 August 13-15

Encore Searching: ½ day
Profile Evaluation: 1 day
Circulation Parameters: ½ day
Acquisitions Parameters: ½ day
Systems Administration: ½ day

Kick Off

Library Services at the University of North Alabama (UNA) is transitioning from the Ex Libris Voyager system to Innovative Interface's Sierra.  Sierra will provide needed new features such as Electronic Resource Management, Integration of the OPAC and EBSCO Discovery, etc.  In addition, the products are hosted at Innovative's newest server facilities in Oakland, California so we don't have to exhaust our IT resources on server maintenance, updates, etc.  Much of Sierra is based on the long standing Millennium platform but with an upgraded PostgreSQL backbone.  Some of the features, such as the integrated Encore/EDS patron side are only recently announced.  

The "Go Live" for Sierra is the week of September 23rd.  This makes for a compressed timeline and training schedule so I ask everyone to hold on as things may get a bit harried.