3. NICLC
• 9 consortium members
• Formed in January 1991
• Shared ILS/server/system
administrator
• Contract renewal date for
ILS June 30 2012
4. adfsd
•Two consortium
members decided to
stay with ILS while
seven decided to
move to OCLC WMS
•College presidents
had to vote to
approve changes to
the bylaws and the
contract for OCLC
WMS.
5. • Last day to use old ILS
July 7, 2012
• Data migration October
25, 2012
• Because of this gap in
service, OCLC gave us
access to a WMS
circulation shell
6. •
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Our 5 year strategic plan includes
providing an integrated discovery
service to students
Our students frequently tell us how
much they love OCLC WMS and how
easy it is to use.
Faculty interest:
Increased requests for information
literacy instruction:
2011-2012 45 faculty requests 734
students taught
2012-2013 72 faculty requests 1,241
students taught
7. “All the forms that the
implementation and data
migration teams had us
fill out were clear and self
explanatory.”
“There was an abundance
of training, all extremely
well done. Excellent
trainers. Nice workable
sized training. I never felt
that "This is over my
head" nor was it boring.”
8. “Cataloging
is just so
much easier
in OCLC
WMS.”
“With our old ILS the catalogers from each institution had
to meet frequently to figure out how to handle problems
and there were a lot of problems caused by sharing the
system. We don’t have those problems now. It’s a
startling difference.”
9. “We had to learn a new
system, but it’s so easy
to use!”
Workflow change:
upload serials holdings
by KBART file
12. The college presidents and
CFOs felt that because we no
longer shared a server we no
longer needed a shared
system administrator.
They asked OCLC to bill each
college individually rather
than bill the consortium.
The college presidents voted
to dissolve the consortium in
May 2013.
