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Following the migration of the Cleveland Bradley County Library into the IRIS Consortium, we entered yet another project for IRIS -- a process called "de-dupe and merge" of the database records. Over the years of the IRIS Consortium, started on November 14, 1999, multiple instances of cataloging records for the same title had occurred, for various reasons. Since we were already in "high mode" from working on the Cleveland migration, we decided to go ahead and follow it with the merging of these multiple cataloging records.

The de-dupe and merging of the bibliographic records took place over the last week of June, 2008. Our vendor found almost 60,000 instances of records that could be merged. We offer our thanks to the patient catalogers of the IRIS Consortium, as they had to 'cease and desist' cataloging while the process was completed. We hope that our database is now cleaner and sleeker.

New Library in IRIS Consortium!

The Cleveland Public Library officially became the 16th library in the IRIS Consortium on May 30, when they "went live" with our shared library management system, Unicorn. All three of the largest libraries in the Fort Loudoun Region are now members of the IRIS group. After two months of preparation and a full week of training on circulation and cataloging, we welcome Director Andrew Hunt and his staff to IRIS. Some peripheral training on reports and outreach still remain, but otherwise things have gone very well in the largest migration we have ever attempted in IRIS. Welcome aboard, Cleveland Public Library!