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IMT Meeting Notes
January 27, 2000

1. Announcements
Lynne announced that there will be a special session next week for Tom Hickerson to update us on the Safire meeting and enhancements to
Voyager. Deb Gagnon will contact IMT members to determine a time.

Trainers will be added to the IMT list. Lynne will send names and e-mail addresses to John

2. Data Migration report
George Kozak reported on the progress of the data migration, based on his discussions with Jana Fast. As of Thursday morning, the Bib load
was complete, and they were about halfway through the AUT load. Endeavor was encountering some problems with MARC Holdings, but the
assumption is that a particular record or records is to blame since this wasn't encountered in a smaller test.
The BIB load will populate MARC Holdings, locations will be generated, item records built, as well as item types for circulation, the patron load and the vendor load.
Diane asked about how locations will initially display in the OPAC since, although Endeavor has our codes, we haven't set up names. George will check with Jana. We can't do a location test without the OPAC being set up properly. We hope to get enough preliminary information from the BIB file testers to sign off by the end of next week.
Susan Currie asked about relating item conditions to item status. George will check with Mei or Jana.
We had a lengthy discussion of the effect of all of our changes to Voyager on the upcoming functional training for the trainers. George explained how the different servers were configured:

Library7
DB
Traindb
Cornelldb
System Administration

Library8
KWYD
(keyword indexes)
Images of Traindb,Cornelldb (pointers to)

Library9
Staff
Images of Traindb,Cornelldb (pointers to)

Library10
OPAC
(Web Voyage, Telnet catalog)
Images of Traindb,Cornelldb (pointers to)

Library11
Test system
Versions of KWYD, Staff, OPAC
Images of Traindb, part of Cornelldb


We may need to create a space for Endeavor to use an unmodified version of Voyager for the functional training. George will be looking into how to provide this. Endeavor will want to use Traindb; the trainers will eventually use Cornelldb. Will we be using Library11 to test Voyager 2000?

3. Academic Assembly
Lynn Brown reported that we will be holding a "poster session" introduction to Voyager for the Academic Assembly meeting on March 2, to be held in Clark Hall. There are two Internet connections on the 7th floor, but we can expand that with the use of minihubs or wireless devices. Members of the different groups will demonstrate various aspects of the system. Lynne and John will work with Oliver to determine the appropriate equipment, probably six machines. There is a projector in the auditorium, so the OPAC group will work there. There will be a trial run on February 28 at 9:00. We will continue to discuss format and content.


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