Hello all,
I wanted to make an official announcement of when each institution's go-live date will be. Please mark your calendars accordingly.
- May 19th, 2025 - Stonehill College - June 9th, 2025 - MassArt, MFA, and Lesley University - June 16th, 2025 - New England Conservatory
Note: There will be a data freeze period of one week prior to your go-live to allow for the data export/import process between systems. You can see all of the dates mentioned in the email in the migration timeline https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GQ51b38j30FC6rBdR01bTTJUPUtf3pauGQRY36OZfBc/edit?usp=sharing. Please let me know if you have any questions.
*What is a Go-Live?* This is the date where you will be able to begin all daily activities in FOLIO (circulation, cataloging, ERM, etc.) and stop using Voyager completely. This is also the date when your new OPAC will go-live for patrons and they can begin searching/placing requests.
*What is a Data Freeze?* A data freeze is the time period between when we do a final export of your data and your go-live. This is almost always one week or less. During this time any edits made in Voyager will not make it over to FOLIO because your data has already been exported. Although you can still make changes to Voyager, it's best to track things "offline" (ex. spreadsheet) so you can make sure you don't lose that information later. Any changes (including circulation) made during the freeze will need to manually migrated by the library after go-live.