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Find a template to be used to map the locations from your local 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 combinations of locations and item types in your data (see examples in table below). If you have locations that do not have item records, you may add a row listing the location and leaving the item type cells blank. For example, periodicals, electronic resources, and government documents often do not have item type information (see Migration scenario 3).

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

Voyager

WMS

Migration

 

Location ID

Location Code

Location Name

Item type number

Item type code

Item type name

852 ‡b Holding library code

Branch (display name of holding library

code)

852 ‡c Shelving Location

008/20 (LHR lending policy)

008/21 (LHR Reproduction policy)

New Location

Do Not Migrate

Default

1: Default

           

1CML

Simpson Library

Migration exceptions

u

u

   

X

2: Do not migrate

677

Supp

Suppleme nts

2

Supp

Suppleme ntary

           

X

 

3: Items without item type data (periodicals,

gov’t documents,

e-resources, etc.)

544

Per

Periodical

     

ABCA

ABC

College Library

Periodical stacks

b

a

     

4: Item type determines WMS shelving location

101

DVD

Media - DVD

16

DVD

DVD

ABCD

Smith Library

Media Library

- DVD

b

b

     

100

Video

Media Video

15

VID

Video

ABCD

Smith Library

Media Library

- Video

b

b

     

5: Location ID or code determines WMS shelving location

213

Fic

Stacks

1

Book

Book

1CML

Simpson Library

Fiction

a

b

     

544

Per

Periodical s

11

Per

Periodical

1CML

Simpson Library

Periodicals

b

a

     

6: New location

           

1CML

Simpson Library

New Fiction

b

b

X