University of Alabama (Full; 2021/2022)
Background Information
What is the current ILS at your institution?
Voyager
What is the date of your fiscal year end? Please do not include a range of your fiscal year.
September 30
How is your implementation team organized?
Representatives from all major functional areas of the libraries.
Has your institution hired additional staff? How were they funded?
Student programmers as part of a grant program.
Is your institution planning to be hosted? Self-hosting? Still considering both options? Please explain.
Hosted
Is your institution considering a partial implementation, such as the ERM first? Please explain.
Yes, circ, courses, users might go first.
Does your institution plan to run FOLIO in parallel with your current ILS? How long? Please explain.
Yes. Uncertain. Do not want to run in parallel more than three months.
How sure are you of the plans described above? Why or why not?
Depends entirely on development progress in finance, FYRO, data load, and MARC record management.
What concerns do you have? What do you hope to get out of participating in this group?
Project Management Tools Used
Asana, Slack, Box.
Institution Documentation
Please share your implementation documentation here by either linking to it from within this section or by attaching it to this page.
Links
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