Debra Jones, State Library of WA

Streamlining the RIS Process

…. or getting all the ducks in a row

Starting point… Libraries Australia March newsletter included

the article “Vendor partnerships – the Libraries Australia and Alma story”

Aims… To identify a model that all Sierra libraries

could adopt Reduce manual intervention Acknowledge the importance of

Libraries Australia

First steps…. Libraries Australia reviewed our data quality Examination of our existing process Talked to III about our options Upgraded Sierra

What we did next…

Re-wrote our procedure Created new saved searches Created new scheduled jobs Set up an export process

WednesdayNew Bibs, New Holdings and Updated Bib lists are created automatically Updated Bib records are automatically sent to LA

ThursdayNew Bib and New Holdings are automatically exported to LAHoldings tag manually added to New Bib and New Holdings

FridayDeleted holdings list is automatically created and sent to LA

MondayDeleted holdings are removed form Sierra

What we’d still like to do…

Consider more frequent contribution Automation of the deletion process on the

local database

What we learnt …