Re: PC Circ

["Darmae Brown" <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This won't help with the text product, but phase 2 of Millennium Circulation has a new method of recording checkouts offline and uploading them when the server is available again.  It sounds a lot easier!

--Darmae

----------------------------------
Darmae Brown
Systems Coordinator
Aurora (CO) Public Library
303-739-6622
fax: 303-739-6638
dbrown@xxxxxxxxxx

>>> Sheila Helen Smart <shs1@xxxxxxxxxx> 01/07 8:03 AM >>>
We have tested PC Circ with a very small number of transactions and are
very concerned with its performance.  It seemed to take a very long time to
load even this small test and its usefulness seems very limited.  We would
never use it for check-ins anyway but our different loan periods would make
it very laborious even for check-outs. 

We are particularly concerned about how long it takes to load transactions
to the live system - does anyone have any experience in this - if a small
amount takes so long, how would it cope with a whole day's, or even half a
day's, transactions?

 
Sheila Smart
Deputy Head of Systems
Systems Office
Library
Ext: 2316