Maine InfoNet Original Contract Signed - 1999
A contract was signed July 27, 1999 that will implement large
portions of the Maine InfoNet project approved by Maine voters
in a June, 1996 referendum. The agreement between the Maine
State Library and Innovative Interfaces Inc. specifies software
and services that will create:
- A statewide combined library catalog that will be updated
in real-time, reflect the holdings of hundreds of Maine libraries,
and incorporate requesting and load-balancing features to support
improved interlibrary lending and borrowing arrangements.
- The Full Management System, a shared integrated library system
offering circulation, cataloging, public access catalog, acquisitions
and serials functions. The Innovative Millennium software
is licensed by the project and the hardware it runs on is purchased
by the project. Local participating libraries, from Year
2 onward, pay ongoing costs of the FMS.
- The Holdings Database, a collection of the holdings of libraries
not using the Full Management System or some other Innovative
system in Maine. Records may be contributed in batches
in a variety of ways.
- An upgraded URSUS system.
Schedule
The contract specifies a detailed schedule of implementation steps
whose timing is expressed in days subsequent to contract signing. Some
of the high points:
- Day 90 Submit completed Profile sheets for libraries
to be loaded onto Full Management System
- Day 150 Profile database and requesting system parameters
for statewide union catalog
- Day 150 Install software on Full Management System server
- Day 210 Install software on statewide union catalog server
- Day 220 Implementation of link between URSUS, FMS and the
statewide union catalog
- Day 300 Install software on Holdings Database server
In addition, Innovative has made a commitment to get four libraries
with unique local system problems (Curtis Memorial Library,
Belfast Free Library, Parrot Health Science Library at Eastern
Maine Medical Center, and Patten Free Library in Bath)
up and running on the Full Management System a bit ahead
of this schedule.
Training in conjunction with various product components will be
scheduled through mutual agreement between the Maine State Library
and Innovative.
The Maine State Library has already begun work on data analysis
and profiling steps associated with these four libraries. In
September it will begin the substantial preparatory work associated
with preparing to bring the other Full Management System libraries
into the system in the first months of 2000.
Full Management System Participation Expands
The ranks of libraries committed to becoming a part of the Maine Info
Net Full Management System, a shared automated library system running
on software from Innovative Interfaces Inc., have increased to 17
with the recent addition of Rockport Public Library and South Portland
Public Library. Here's the complete list:
- Belfast Free Library
- Central Maine Technical College, Auburn
- Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick
- Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor (Parrott Health Science Library)
- Eastern Maine Technical College, Bangor
- Husson College, Bangor
- Kennebec Valley Technical College, Fairfield
- Lewiston Public Library
- McArthur Library, Biddeford
- Northern Maine Technical College, Presque Isle
- Patten Free Library, Bath
- Rockport Public Library
- Rumford Public Library
- Southern Maine Technical College, South Portland
- South Portland Public Library
- Washington County Technical College, Calais/Eastport
- York County Technical College, Wells
