LMS Progress: End of Year 2

The LMS Year 2 rollout has completed with the final library Jamestown going live on 21st November, this has concluded a very ambitious rollout schedule for 2013. Everyone tracks the progress using different parameters, the major one for the LMS project team is databases and setup, 35 this year, if you consider a Production + Test load there were 70 in total.

Highlights this year were the Go Live of 7 sites in April, then 9 in July, while the single implementation of the LINK Libraries (5 library services and 20 sites) went live on the 6th June.

LMS PROJECT	YEAR 2 (COMPLETED)	TOTAL TO DATE	YEAR 3 TO BE COMPLETED
Library Services	44	70/93	23
Library Sites	69	133/161	28
Library Databases	35	54/77	23
Councils	31	53/68	15
		70%
	ITEMS	CUSTOMERS	POPULATION
Total Estimate	4,000,000		1,603,172
ACTUAL to date	3,447,048	918,772	1,429,476
			89%

I would like to thank the LMS project team for their dedication to the task and all of the PLS teams who have assisted in many ways, from promotional material, letters of offer, booking accommodation & travel, setting up the network and assisting libraries to the load Workflows application and setup printers, allocating new barcodes for items and ranges for patrons as libraries issued new cards, liaising with libraries during each bib-duplication process and assisting with library staff accessing training venue.

Special thanks to our vendor partners in SirsiDynix and KDN who have helped us achieve a positive outcome.

Lyal Mutton
Manager ICT Services
Public Library Services