OCLC Downtime

Some posts of relevance to our members from the OCLC Resource Sharing List:

REMINDER: WorldCat Resource Sharing/ILLiad Downtime June 10-13, 2005

The WorldCat Resource Sharing data migration weekend has arrived. This is to remind all our members that the system will be taken down tonight at 11:00 p.m. EST and is scheduled to come back live 12:01 a.m. EST on Monday morning (e.g. right after midnight Sunday). This affects users of WorldCat Resource Sharing and OCLC ILLiad.

We encourage all members to check the list where they have seen this message first thing on Monday morning before starting work for any final messages concerning the migration.

Subject: ISO-ILL Downtime June 10-14, 2005

This message only affects libraries and systems which communicate with WorldCat Resource Sharing via the ISO ILL protocol. It does not affect libraries and systems using IDR or Web Services.

As part of the migration of WorldCat Resource Sharing to the new platform the ISO ILL server has also been re-written. To ensure the migration proceeds smoothly for all OCLC member libraries, OCLC will conduct final testing with ISO on Monday June 13th. Therefore the ISO ILL server will not be brought back live until Tuesday June 14th at 7:00 a.m. EST. A message confirming the server is available will be distributed via this and other lists on Tuesday.

SUBJECTS: OCLC ODDMENTS