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Managing a Three-Ring Circus upgrading Aleph, implementing Primo, and maintaining support for a quarter million users Kevin J. Collins & Allie Verbovetskaya CUNY Office of Library Services IGeLU 2014 | Oxford, UK | September 16, 2014 Big Apple • • • • 1 city 5 boroughs 8.2 million residents (in 1,214 km²) 120 institutions of higher education – 20% of those are part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Lehman College Bronx CC City College Hostos CC Hunter College Macaulay Honors College Public Health John Jay College Queens College Guttman CC Journalism Grad Center Queensborough CC Baruch College SPS LaGuardia CC York College CUNY Law Borough of Manhattan CC NYCCT Medgar Evers College Brooklyn College Kingsborough CC College of Staten Island Big University • 1 university system, 24 campuses – 11 senior colleges – 7 community colleges – 5 graduate and professional schools – The Macaulay Honors College • 6,700 full-time teaching faculty • 540,000 students Big Library Committees • 1 central library office, 21 individual libraries • 14 library committees - 7 Aleph-related - 1 SFX - 1 Primo implementation - 1 EZproxy - 4 e-resource & infrastructure Big Dreams Upgrade Aleph (v18 to v21) Support 21 libraries Implement Primo Coming summer 2014! Big Surprises ALEPH UPGRADE WWW Users (HTTP, X-Service, Z39.50) Environment Primo / PDS Application Server 1 libadmin.cuny.edu Load Balancer libsearch.cuny.edu PC GUI, Z39.50, self-check, OCLC Connexion Shared disc /exlibris/aleph/* Application Server 2 Aleph Exadata database • Phase 1: March/April 2014 Project Plan U-Tree Config / DB Config / DB • Production Aleph 18 Config / DB Stage Aleph 21 Phase 3: July 10 -25, 2014 Test Aleph 21 Phase 2: July 10 -25, 2014 Config / DB Production Aleph 21 Centralized Resource Center Centralized Resource Center (cont’d) Gotchas Aleph Publishing for Primo • job_list ! Publishing for Primo - p_publish_06 W1 12:05:00 Y CUN01 p_publish_06 CUN01,PRIMO-FULL,LAST-DATE,000000000,999999999,20140701,20170701,, /exlibris/primo_publishing,Y,16,/exlibris/primo_publishing/scratch,Y • /xxx01/prof_library setenv p_publish_06_block 20000 PRIMO IMPLEMENTATION Rigging • Primo procurement • Advisory committee – Small – Representative • Branding – Name – Logo Execution • • • • Primo certification at ELUNA Ex Libris training Aleph cleanup Input from advisory committee Finale • Usability testing • Soliciting & incorporating feedback • Continuing to improve UI Current UI Proposed UI Words of Wisdom • • • • • Ask questions Get your hands dirty Check your setup Nag Ex Libris Be flexible SUPPORT MAINTENANCE Business as Usual • …with improvements! – Streamlined service requests – Tutorials for answers to frequently asked questions QUESTIONS? Kevin Collins Allie Verbovetskaya Aleph Systems Librarian [email protected] Web & Mobile Systems Librarian [email protected]