[Evergreen-acq] Changing ILS - Acquisitions

[Leslie St. John]

Thanks to both of you. As we move forward with this project we may be in
touch.
Leslie

Leslie St. John
*PINES Services Specialist*
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345-4304
404-235-7129 tel
404.235.7201 fax
www.georgialibraries.org
www.gapines.org

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at equinoxinitiative.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Leslie St. John
> <lstjohn at georgialibraries.org> wrote:
> > We will be bringing in to our consortium a new library system that is
> > already using Acquisitions from another ILS. I wonder, has anyone every
> > migrated Acqusitions data from one ILS to another?  I can't imagine it,
> but
> > there's at least one vendor out there who thinks this can be done.
> > If yes, please reply ON the list.
>
> We've migrated acquisitions data for several libraries. Provider
> records tend to be straightforward to deal with, although setting up
> EDI profiles tends to be done manually. We've also migrated funds,
> fund allocations, orders, line items, and invoices. We typically
> recommend that libraries just migrate data for the current fiscal year
> and compile whatever reports they need from past fiscal years to keep
> their auditors happy, but have migrated data for back fiscal years on
> one or two occasions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
> --
> Galen Charlton
> Infrastructure and Added Services Manager
> Equinox Open Library Initiative
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