The testing of the new version of the Aleph software is going well, thanks to all our "Alephtesters"!
We are ready to meet our scheduled date for switching to Aleph 18 - the May long weekend.
On the weekend of May 5, the Systems Office, together with NCS and ISR, did a 'dry run' of all the upgrade steps to figure out how much time the full upgrade will take. Using that data, we have determined that we will need all of Sunday, May 20 to do the upgrade steps and then Monday, May 21 to test things on the production ports (e.g. the AutoLoans) before we go live on Aleph18.
On Sunday, May 20, Education, Life Sciences and Humanities and Social Sciences are the only libraries open for circulation; all loans will have to be done manually. The AutoLoans and the Library Catalogue similarly will not be available from early Sunday morning until the time on Monday when we go live on Aleph 18.
Monday, May 21, all libraries are closed - this will be our "testing day". The Catalogue will appear, and then at some point, disappear for a backup. Once the backup is done, the Catalogue will reappear, and Aleph 18 will be in production!
On Tuesday, staff will begin to do their work using Aleph18 - new clients will be deployed.
The website which documents the coming changes to the clients and to the Library Catalogue is: http://www.library.mcgill.ca/aleph/version18/whats_new_in_18.htm
If you wish to follow the upgrade process, the webpage to watch is: http://www.library.mcgill.ca/aleph/upgrade16
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