Staff training on Voyager has continued with sessions on acquisitions and cataloguing. Two teams of information services staff have been set up to look at specific aspects of Voyager. A second team has been investigating the search methods we will need to become familiar in order to interrogate the new system and teach our users how to use the catalogue. The translation of the OPAC into Welsh is also progressing well - many thanks to our colleagues in the Translation Unit for their excellent work. It now includes a sample of our records and some locally designed screens but it is some way from the finished article.
Any feedback is, however, always welcome.
We have also been working hard at the production of user education material, although, of necessity, some of the content has to be very general until we have more experience of Voyager. This is an image of the poster which has been displayed around Information Services to alert users to the imminent change over to Voyager the new library system. This is the first step to what we hope will be an ongoing publicity campaign to promote the new system. In the case of bibliographic records, this involves converting them from UK to US formats as well. Extensive re-cabling work is also being carried out in all the libraries in preparation for the new terminals required for Voyager.