Greetings, As I am sure most of you are suffering the same plight of economic cut backs and closures, I would like any information or suggestions about what you are doing about it. I would like to say that this is not just our department. Everyone is pitching in to save and help in any way possible.
We are looking at the fact that we may have to abandon our service contract with our computer library system provider. I need information on how to back up the system and export data to another system. We have Winnebago and use the Weine system. We can not afford to purchase another system or really afford to keep up the service contract we have on this one, even with the discount we receive for being a member of this organization. In addition, the company who does the service contract, although they have been kind in helping with repairs, is kinda annoyed with the fact that we continue to use a dinosaur program. Also, Winnebago is chugging alone fine since it was repaired after a nasty power outage that shocked it out of order and we plan to keep using it, until the wheels fall off. We have an emergency plan that I would continue to classify new books and put them on the shelves for lending, we would mark them with an sticker on the binder for when we could afford a new system. We would go back to keeping track of library items manually, using excel instead of paper for tracking, lending and classifying. Our biggest problem is how to preserve and keep the Winnebago data safe, if we do have to abandon it and need to be able to use it later. Out IT specialist backs up the program on a regular weekly basis. We actually just switched from a zip drive to a flash drive. What are other organizations considering? Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. Lynn Tallan Coordinator Jewish Teacher Resource Center Columbus Jewish Federation 1175 College Ave Columbus, Ohio 43209 <mailto:j...@tcjf.org>j...@tcjf.org www.jewishcolumbus.org 614-559-3241 614-237-7686 JTRC --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
