Consortial ILLiad Implementation Plan & Timeline
January 16, 2007 Update

July 2005

• RSTG/USMILL meeting at MAILL. COMPLETED
• ILLiad contacts established. COMPLETED

August 2005

• Establish RSTG ILLiad implementation subgroup who will
  • flesh out implementation strategy COMPLETED and
  • communicate with all ILLiad consortial implementation contacts. COMPLETED
• Negotiate training model with Atlas. COMPLETED

September 2005

• Establish USMAI ILLiad Users Group – All ILLiad contacts and RSTG. COMPLETED
• Get firm pricing from Atlas. COMPLETED
• Finalize training plan with Atlas. COMPLETED

October 2005

• ITD orders servers. COMPLETED
• Meeting of ILLiad Users Group: introduction to ILLiad; discussion of timeline. COMPLETED
• License signed with OCLC. COMPLETED

November/December 2005

• Server and software configured based on subgroup work, test database set up. COMPLETED

February 2006

• ITD and ILL staff trained to use ILLiad (this is a 1 day, everyone trained together session). COMPLETED

March/April/May 2006

• Subgroup meets to continue implementation tasks. BEGUN IN MARCH, ONGOING
• ITD resolves file-sharing and connectivity issues. COMPLETED IN MAY
• ILL staff practices with test software. COMPLETED

May 2006

• Begin staged implementation of eight sites beginning with SMCM. BEGUN IN MAY, ONGOING
• Visit/training for St. Mary's COMPLETED MAY 25

Summer 2006

• St. Mary's - Live July 11 COMPLETED
• SU - Live July 11 COMPLETED
• Eastern Shore - Live August 25 COMPLETED
• FSU - Live August 9 COMPLETED
• CES/Horn Point - Live August 31 COMPLETED
• Web reports/statistics setup COMPLETED

Fall 2006

• Coppin - Live November 3 (Not running Odyssey yet) INSTALL COMPLETED, ODYSSEY IN PROCESS
• Morgan - November 28 (Not running Odyssey yet) IN PROCESS

Winter 2007

• Bowie - Visit/install on Jan 31, 2007

Spring 2007

• ILLiad Users Group establishes meetings to follow up post-implementation.
• Odyssey implementation.

ILLiad subgroup:

• Carol Vaeth and Robin Moskal – co-chairpersons
• Jamie Bush

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