Good News!
Yes, it is almost annual report time! The SCLS ILS Staff and Cindy Weber have been preparing to generate these reports for 2011. First, we have some really good news:
- There will be no down time required for year-end procedures.
- There will be no moratorium on adding or deleting items and bibs.
- All reports will be posted electronically.
- Due to the improvements with LibLime hosting and system administration services, we are able to eliminate over 75 steps from our year-end process--many of these represent multiple hours of work.
- We may be able to provide sub-totalling for many of the reports.
The majority of the reports are already being run as monthly reports and it will be fairly easy to turn them into annual reports. The only reports we have not yet created are the serials reports. We will do our best to provide the data required for the state annual reports.
Dynix Reports
Many of the print Dynix reports were distributed after we went live on Koha. Don't be concerned if you do not know where yours are--we have duplicates! We will be distributing these during the first week in January. This will be the last time we have to do our big report distribution process!
December Monthly Reports
We are still working out the details, but it is almost certain that we will not begin generating the December monthly reports until January 3. This is due to the way the holidays fall this year.
State Annual Report
Libraries will have extra work when preparing for the state annual report this year as it will be necessary to combine information from the Dynix reports and the Koha reports. SCLS ILS staff is planning to update the usual memo that we do to walk libraries through the process. We will also host webinars on completing the various sections of the state report using the Dynix and Koha reports.
