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BOG update from 6/7 and gyoung's Final Hurdles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marilyn McSweeney )
Wed Jun 7 17:53:14 1995
To: acq2@MIT.EDU
Cc: fleish@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 17:52:15
From: mgm@MIT.EDU (Marilyn McSweeney )
I know some of you already received this, but here's a list that Grant put
together and BOG looked at this afternoon. It's meant to cover the things
we're still working on with GEAC or those things for which we're awaiting
a response. Obviously there are many other things that we're working on
here at MIT that don't appear to involve work by GEAC. I thought you might
find it interesting, although I realize it's a bit cryptic in some of the
items.
We also discussed the need to identify those RFP items marked incorrectly
"operational" to forward to the Steering Group for use in conversations
with Geac about acceptance of the system or about going live with specific
modules. I know you're finding some of those in your RFP testing -- we
just need to keep track of them.
ACQ2 isn't meeting on 6/8 due to Director candidate meeting with Lib.
Council. Grant expects to receive the GMA2 tape on Monday, June 12, and
load it on June 13, as planned. Testing coordinators will hear more about
migration testing at your next meeting, I assume.
QUESTION: We've also been told we can schedule a meeting with Miriam Blake
at our convenience (in lieu of the aborted M. Ridgeway meeting). If you
like, I will contact her and ask about her availability for our 6/15
meeting time. Is that agreeable? or would you prefer finding another time
during that week or the next before ALA. This is assuming that you do
still want to meet with someone from Geac either for answers or bringing
her up to speed on what we need before going live.
Thanks, MGM
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To: bog-lib@MIT.EDU
Cc: cfollett@MIT.EDU, efinnie@MIT.EDU, sbyrd@MIT.EDU, perkins@MIT.EDU,
Subject: Final Hurdles
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 11:10:50 EDT
From: gyoung@MIT.EDU
Here's an outline of the final hurdles as I currently see them before we
go live for discussion at BOG and then to use with Miriam and Ridgeway
for the project management transition.
-- Grant
I. Final Hurdles
A. Geac Issues Outstanding
1. Acq/Ser
a) $500 limit on orders -- requires custom programming
b) PO #'s in Call No. field -- ?
c) Control Table changes
1) remove corporate author and meeting name prompts
2) change search orders to ORD, OPC, WRK, & NEW
3) 780 tag definition
d) Serial Vendor migration -- dBase spec
2. Cat
a) Loader programming -- when and where
b) Authorities 008 field
3. Circ
a) Patron Claims Returned & Lost Book not working -- LAD #7287
4. OPAC
a) remove (Title) and (Series) legend from search summary lists
5. Systems
a) Transaction Logging setup
b) Advance Softbackup download testing
c) Patron loading
d) A/R-Bursar off-loading
e) Marc Tape Offload
B. Local & maybe Geac hurdles
1. Reports and Print Products
a) Acquisitions
1) Check requests
2) Purchase Orders -- need fine tuning
3) Purchase Order Summary -- ?
4) Exception (Aging) Reports
a] Requests
b] Orders
c] Claims
d] Invoices
5) Invoice completion / approval reports
6) Receipt Statistics
7) Fund Accounting reports
b) Serials
1) Price comparison report
c) Cataloguing
1) Indexing reports
2) Provisional Authority creation
d) Circulation
1) Notices -- need tuning
a] sequences
b] format
2) Statistics
3) Fines Journals
4) Long Overdues
5) Transit Reports
6) Cash Register Reports -- being produced
7) Reserve Usage Reports
2. User setup
3. Kerberos
a) on emmy
b) on workstations
4. GMA testing
a) Order status inconsistencies
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