Most of the implementation excitement has been in the hands of ExLibris and our Systems department these last few weeks. Primo has been installed and is talking to both MetaLib and Voyager, and they’re starting to work on the Primo staging server. I seem to recall that they’re also working on getting authentication working.
Generally, when sitting in the more techincal meetings I feel much as I did the first semester of college when I was mis-enrolled in a German class that was a level above where I needed to be. My working knowledge is almost good enough — lots of vocabulary flies over my head, but I can pick up the context well enough to get a feel for what they’re talking about.
In any case, I’m still working on getting the OK from all our vendors for the federated search access. Some are amazingly easy to work with, while others are highly frustrating and/or make us jump through a lot of hoops. But that’s par for the course.
