• Working Draft
  • Onboarding and Rollout Planning (MOBIUS)

    Goals

    Prioritise onboarding cohorts of member libraries within the consortium, with a view to

    • minimise implementation risk

    • surface complications early

    • expedite early wins

    Planning factors

    The following intelligence for each library (rather than agency or host lms) will help with onboarding and rollout planning to meet these goals:

    • Size:

      • catalog

        • overall size for expected ingest

        • typical weekly or monthly change +/-

      • weekly transactions

        • borrowing

        • lending

      • typical number of in-flight holds

      • patron count

        • overall

        • active (within 3 months)

    • Current environment and system configuration

      • hosting

        • shared (currently on a cluster with other libraries also moving to DCB)

        • mixed (currently on a cluster with other libraries not moving to DCB)

        • standalone (not in a shared hosting environment)

      • systems (including system versions)

        • ILS (Sierra, Polaris, FOLIO, other)

        • Discovery System (Encore, Locate, Vega, Classic EDS, New EDS, Primo, other)

        • PAC (PolarisPAC, WebPAC, other)

    • Environment and system configuration at launch

      • hosting (shared, mixed, standalone)

      • ILS

      • Discovery

      • PAC

    • Service configurations

      • uniqueness vs common (at agency and host lms level)

    • Operational

      • operational peaks and quiet periods to avoid or be aware of for

        • patrons (eg, exam time, between terms, planned library events)

        • staff (eg, end of year turnaround, collection refresh)

      • operational readiness

      • capacity to support or engage with configuration testing

        • named technical / support contact at library

        • names business decision maker

    • Other considerations

      • is a working group member?

      • has a test environment?

      • appetite for risk (eg, early or late adopter)

      • concerns and expectations

    Assumptions

    • No assumption is made as to whether the best plan for MOBIUS is to prioritise users of particular library systems or of a public or academic type.

    • Standalone libraries that are not migrating to FOLIO (and therefore with fewer implementation dependencies) are likely to be good candidates to onboard sooner rather than later.

     

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