[Eril-l] Serials Solutions 360 Link vs WMS Discovery

[Sarah Slack]

The one thing I will say about WMS is that learning how to use it has been so much easier than learning how to use Serials Solutions and I now understand things I never understood about Serials Solutions because I figured out how to do them in WMS. We're currently using both, but I'm hoping once I get all our data transferred over and spend a little time testing it that we'll be able to drop Serials Solutions completely.


Sarah Slack
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St. Charles Public Library<http://stcharleslibrary.org>
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From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> on behalf of Ken Siegert <ken.siegert at fandm.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 8:46 AM
To: eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Serials Solutions 360 Link vs WMS Discovery

Thank you for the responses! Our records are being pulled today (5 pm) for migration, so we are truly just now moving to WMS. I think some are just stressed about the upcoming changes. We've had our current ILS for almost 15 years and Serials Solutions for 10 years (I think). The cost savings of using WMS instead of a combo of an ILS and Serials Solutions is significant, which is why most of us figured that Serials Sol was part of the plan.

After sending out the message, I found a demo video of the Link Resolver (and created our link from the instructions and tried it out). Seems to function nicely.

Thanks,

Ken

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Ken Siegert

E-Resources, Serials & Metadata Specialist

Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Room 011

ken.siegert at fandm.edu<mailto:ken.siegert at fandm.edu> | 717-291-4219


Franklin & Marshall College

Shadek-Fackenthal Library

P.O. Box 3003

Lancaster, PA 17604-3003

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Ken Siegert <ken.siegert at fandm.edu<mailto:ken.siegert at fandm.edu>> wrote:
Has anyone out there signed up with OCLC WMS Discovery, and decided to drop Serials Solutions 360 Link (or any other link resolver)? Or decided to keep both? In either case, what were the pros & cons?

Thank you,

Ken

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Ken Siegert

E-Resources, Serials & Metadata Specialist

Shadek-Fackenthal Library, Room 011

ken.siegert at fandm.edu<mailto:ken.siegert at fandm.edu> | 717-291-4219


Franklin & Marshall College

Shadek-Fackenthal Library

P.O. Box 3003

Lancaster, PA 17604-3003

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