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Work resumed in September and the small working groups, lead by the Implementation Advisory Group, have started meeting again. They have been busy cleaning up things collection codes, old orders, separating print and electronic holdings, fixing record formats and the like. A full list of cleanup jobs in the queue and those that are completed can be seen at: ​​https://www.novanet.ca/clean-up-reports/

CARLI

89 institutions migrated from Voyager, went live in June, 2020.

CUNY

CUNY migrated from Aleph, 2020.

GALILEO INTERCONNECTED LIBRARIES (GIL)

This particular article about the University System of Georgia Alma/Primo implementation seems to offer some particularly insightful information for data cleanup, legacy practices and cleanup before go live and ‘what they would do differently:

Lee, J., & Frost, G. (2017). Manipulating Data and Moving Forward: Transitioning to a Shared Cataloging Environment. Collaborative Librarianship9(3), 215–. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1351&context=collaborativelibrarianship

SUNY

SUNY Library Consortium went live in July, 2019, migrating from Aleph. What is interesting here, is that SUNY used a set of Vanguard’ libraries to “help facilitate SUNY's development of the network zone and other consortial configurations,” prior to determining how all 60 SUNY institutions would migrate their data to Alma and Primo. What follows are links relevant to their data cleaning initiatives:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

University of California has just recently gone live with Alma/Primo VE, with libraries migrating from WMS, III and Voyager. The following blog documents their data cleanup recommendations prior to Go-Live:

Implementation hindsight - past experiences for review

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UC Santa Cruz - “Implementation Minus 40 Days: Considered Pragmatism Under Pressure”: https://escholarship.org/content/qt08m1b3gd/supp/ELUNA_-_Implementation_Minus_40_Days.pdf

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY (CSU) & CONNECTICUT STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (CSCU)

This article documents two more academic implementations that may offer some additional insights for data cleanup, communications and general migration form completion.

D’Amato, K., & Erb, R. A. (2018). The Road from Millennium to Alma: Two Tracks, One Destination. The Serials Librarian74(1-4), 217–223. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2018.1428475