<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Brian,</div><div><br></div><div>We are sorry to see you go!</div><div><br></div><div>Some additional things to consider include:</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>Turning off the ability of your Evergreen system to send email at all; some of the emails it can generate don't go through Action Trigger</li><li>Preventing any scheduled reports from running after the transition; you can do this by deleting all rows from the reporter.schedule table whose run_time is in the future</li><li>Updating circulation and hold policies on the Evergreen side to prevent new hold requests, loans, and renewals</li><li>If you've used Evergreen's SIP or Z39.50 servers, making sure they are turned off<br></li><li>Once you're past the point where you want to offer the Evergreen OPAC at all, setting up a redirect in Apache to the new catalog<br></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Galen<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 10:19 AM Brian Holda via Evergreen-dev <<a href="mailto:evergreen-dev@list.evergreen-ils.org">evergreen-dev@list.evergreen-ils.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8798693839387281224">
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As these things go, we are actually migrating away from Evergreen (into Alma). Last official day for patrons/staff changing things in Evergreen is this Fri, 5/10. However, the catalog will still be up for a little bit as we plan to migrate to Alma Wed, 5/15.</div>
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Firstly, I truly want to thank this community for supporting me/us in MANY ways since my short time at Calvin. Will miss learning from you and with you.</div>
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Second, wondering what advice you all could give me with gracefully migrating away from Evergreen.</div>
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remove cronjobs that make changes to Evergreen – thinking of things like automated letters</div>
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disable all notifications/actions (in Local Administration > Notifications/actions triggers) – thinking of things like automated letters</div>
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remove access for patrons to login (and inadvertently change things) in the interim of the 2 systems</div>
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hide action options in the catalog (like making requests) during the interim of the 2 systems</div>
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after we've completely migrated all data and functions of Evergreen (which will likely take months if not longer), compress and archive the system to a NAS</div>
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<p style="line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Brian Holda<br>
Library Technology Manager<br>
Hekman Library<br>
Calvin University<br>
(616) 526-8673</span></p>
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</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Galen Charlton<br>Implementation and IT Manager<br>Equinox Open Library Initiative<br><a href="mailto:gmc@equinoxOLI.org" target="_blank">gmc@equinoxOLI.org</a><br><a href="https://www.equinoxOLI.org" target="_blank">https://www.equinoxOLI.org</a> <br>phone: 877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)<br>direct: 770-709-5581<br><a href="http://evergreen-ils.org" target="_blank"></a></div></div>