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3rdBarton Bi-Weekly Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Jones)
Fri Jul 16 14:37:13 1999
Message-Id: <199907151535.LAA05178@basement-4.mit.edu>
To: magellan@MIT.EDU
Cc: stc-lib@MIT.EDU, 3rdbc@MIT.EDU, 3rdbarton@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:35:23 -0400
From: Carl Jones <carlj@basement-4.mit.edu>
Reply-To: carlj@MIT.EDU
Project Name: Third Barton Project (Project to find a replacement
for the MIT LIbrary Management System)
Project Management Team: Nina Davis-Millis, Joan Kolias, Carl Jones
Report Date: July 15, 1999
URL: http:/macfadden.mit.edu:9500/c3/3dbarton
Accomplishments Past Period:
- Visited library at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Institute (MBL-WHOI), to look at Endeavor Voyager implementation.
We spoke with Maggie Rioux, the systems person there who provided
us with some good information and demos of the system. The capabilities
we saw looked quite impressive and it will be interesting to compare
with the other vendor systems. She also filled us in with interesting
details about the company, operating style, and support issues.
- Scheduled July 22, 1-2:30, for an "informal" All-Staff meeting to
provide an update on the progress on 3rdBarton made so far. We will
give an
outline of the steps we've taken (e.g. market survey, RFS, planned demos,
extended testing idea, our relationship to our current system, Geac
ADVANCE, etc.). Most of all, we'd like staff to ask questions and talk
more about the process.
- Nina and Eric Celeste attended the American Library Association Annual
Meeting in New Orleans and were able to speak at length with the vendors
who are under consideration. They also gave a summary of what they saw
and heard to the Project Mgt. Team members, Joan and Carl, who did not
attend ALA.
Goals for the Coming Period:
- Update project timetable for Vendor demos.
- Schedule first vendor demos.
- Plan/hold All Staff meeting.
- Schedule data model session with Scott Thorne.
- Schedule meeeting with Tom Egan from Purchasing to talk about
the composition of the RFP.
- Talk with dept. heads re. preparing staff for evaluating and providing
feedback from the upcoming vendor demos.
Key Learnings:
- None this session
Team Dynamics:
- None
Issues: None
