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Find a template to be used to map the locations from your local non-Voyager system (ILS) to WMS.

This document is a template to be used to map the locations from your local non-Voyager system (ILS) to WMS.

Using an Excel spreadsheet, follow the examples below to translate locations from your ILS to WMS.

 Note: All data is case sensitive. Data from your system may vary.

List all possible location and item type combinations in your data (see examples in table below).

Migration scenario
(Do not put this column in your translation table)

ILS Source Columns
(The names of these fields vary by ILS)

WMS

Migration

 

Location ID

Location code

Item type

852 $b Holding library code

Branch (display name in WorldCat Discovery)

852 $c Shelving Location

008/20 (LHR lending policy)

008/21 (LHR reproduction policy)

New Location

Do Not Migrate

Default

1: Location ID or code determines WMS shelving location

213

Fic

*

1CML

Simpson Library

Fiction

u

u

     

544

Per

*

1CML

Simpson Library

Periodicals

b

a

     

2: Item type determines WMS shelving location

123

Media

DVD

ABCD

Smith Library

Media Library - DVD

b

b

     

123

Media

Video

ABCD

Smith Library

Media Library -

Video

u

u

     

3: New location

     

1CML

Simpson Library

New Fiction

b

b

X

   

4: Do not migrate

677

Supp

*

           

X

 

5: Default

*

*

*

1CML

Simpson Library

Migration exceptions

u

u

   

X