1. TALIS
SYMPHONY IMPLEMENTATION
Chris Seaman
State Library of Tasmania
COSA Conference October 2010

2. • Primary Schools 124
• Public Lending 43
• High Schools 32
• District Highs (K-10) 19
• Polytechnics (Post Yr 10) 13
• Joint (school/public) 7
• Government Depts. 6
• Reference 4
• Senior Secondary Colleges (11-12) 3

4. IMPLEMENTATION
• Policy workshop
• All project staff trained in all core modules
• Selected staff trained in API
• 10 representative libraries set up on test
database
• Policies determined

5. POLICIES
• 271 Library Policies
• 969 Location Policies
• 195 Item Type Policies
• 1,422 User Profile Policies
• 100 Circ Rule Policies
• 3,202 lines in Circ Map
• 234 Environment Policies
• 446 Logins utilising 431 Property files

6. DATA CONVERSION
• 923,852 Bibliographic MARC records
• 868,570 Authority MARC records
• 4,249 MARC Holding records with library/group
specific URLs
• 4,411,728 items
• 6,863 Vendors
• 5,264 Serial Control Records

7. MAJOR DATA CONVERSION SCENARIOS
• 1060 Location
• 593 Item Type
• 767 User Profile
• 834 Call Number strip prefix
• 1128 Item category 1 (Classification / Genre)
• 504 User category 4 (Postcode)

11. TRAINING
• 11 staff developed and presented training
• Over 800 library staff were trained
• 170 sessions
• 9 trainees per session
• 4 concurrent venues
• 12 weeks

12. CIRCULATION / TRANSACTION DATA
• 260,977 Users
• 556,016 Loans
• 35,563 Missing items
• 23,708 Items In Transit to home library
• 77,388 Holds - open, in transit & awaiting pickup
• 166,834 Outstanding bills