Schedule:

Upgrade dates	Campus	Remove from UB		Upgrade dates	Campus	Remove from UB
July 21	Stout	July 14		Aug 8-10	Superior	July 29
Aug 5-6	Eau Claire	July 29		Aug 11-13	Colleges	July 29
Aug 5-7	Milwaukee	July 29		Aug 11-13	Parkside	July 29
Aug 6-7	La Crosse	July 29		Aug 11-13	River Falls	July 29
Aug 8-10	Green Bay	July 29		Aug 11-13	Whitewater	July 29
Aug 8-10	Oshkosh	July 29		Aug 11 - 15	Madison	July 29
Aug 8-10	Platteville	July 29		Aug 14	Stevens Point	July 29

Status:

9/15/08: Upgrades went well for everyone--more like a patch than a regular upgrade. We did not do the Oracle 10 upgrade at this time due to a lack of documentation from Ex Libris. That will be done next summer. The LTCC discussed at the August conference call whether we might turn on UB one-by-one as schools upgrade. Although some staff did not like UB down for so long, most LTCC members felt it was easier to administer and less confusing for patrons if we kept UB off until the last school was finished with the upgrade. The timing of the upgrade also meant that the impact was minimal on patrons. Even interlibrary loan was not very busy in late July-early August even though people were directed to submit ILL requests when UB was down. So unless we hear from more staff that this was a problem, we will recommend that we keep the same workflow for the next upgrade.

8/13/08: upgrades are going smoothly and completing faster than expected. Campuses should turn on UB on Monday, the 18th, in order to give Madison time to finish all their processing.

7/18/08: From Brian Wilson today: "Brian Stratman at Exlibris verified for me that the Webvoyage Renewals bug patch was rolled in with the Google Books patch that just came out and is part of what I'm going to be installing."

7/17/08: From Linda Voyles today: "the patch for the renewal bug 16384-1905 was being tested with a customer yesterday and we expect to release it later today."

7/9/08: This message is from VOYAGER-L, dated July 3: The WebVoyage Renewal bug (Issue 16384-1905) has been corrected and is
in the final phases of testing. We should be announcing its release by the end of next week. A message will be sent out when the package is
available for download.

Sincerely,
Marci Deignan
Global Customer Support Team Lead (Voyager)

6/30/08: Forgot to mention this about Oracle--at the LAMs meeting during the conference on June 4, Brian said Madison is planning to do the Oracle 10 upgrade this summer. If Stevens Point or Eau Claire want to do the same, they can after confirming it won't affect UB. Brian will ask. Other hub libraries will wait and determine when to upgrade based on Madison's experience.

6/25/08: Lisa heard from Ex Libris that the fix will be ready by July 2. She will monitor until we know for sure it has been resolved.

6/24/2008: All sites have confirmed the upgrade dates. Will the renewal bug delay our upgrades? Lisa will contact Ex Libris to emphasize the importance to us of fixing this bug before our upgrades. We do expect the fix will be in place before or shortly after our upgrades because this affects all Voyager customers. We don't expect it to be a critical issue for us until the first week of classes (when reserve checkouts would be affected). It will be a non-issue for the term loans, but the 28-day and shorter loan items will be affected.

See the attachments at the bottom of this page for the Voyager Hub Upgrade Checklist. This has been updated, but let me know if you have any additions/changes (email me at brunstim@uwgb.edu or use the Threads at the bottom of this page).

We will send a reminder on the UB mailing list to turn off UB one week before Stout upgrades and one week before the rest of the campuses upgrade.

Once the upgrades begin, check the wiki page, Voyager Hub Upgrade Progress Page, for updates from Brian.

6/9/08: Lisa sent out the confirmed schedule.

5/30/08: spoke to Lisa yesterday--she is waiting to hear from Brian to schedule a date for the Colleges.

5/21/08: Lisa is setting up specific upgrade dates for the campuses and will communicate this with the LAMs. Stout will upgrade early due to their textbooks program. Stout will be removed from UB 1 week prior to their upgrade date in order to finish requests in the pipeline. UB will remain up for the rest of the campuses until 1 week before the next scheduled upgrade (as yet to be determined). It will be turned back on after the last upgrade is completed. We will NOT upgrade Oracle at this time due to a lack of documentation from Ex Libris.

4/29/08: Bill Doering (La Crosse), chair of the Hub and LAMs groups, is coordinating this with Lisa. We decided to upgrade to 6.5.4 due to the late release date of Voyager 7. We also plan to upgrade Oracle this summer so that we don’t have that to deal with at the same time as the Voyager 7 upgrade, which will be more time-consuming for some staff due to the new OPAC interface. Upgrade dates will probably run mid-July to mid-August. Linda Voyles is checking on dates for all of the campuses. Madison and the hub will do their own upgrades, but need an Ex Libris engineer available. Eau Claire and Stevens Point, who have not joined the hub yet, will need Ex Libris to perform their upgrades.