TS History Timeline

1983

Implemented the Innovative Interfaces (III) Acquisitions system, Innovacq. Colleen Hyslop negotiated.  Monographs implemented first.

1983

Installed an interface between CLSI (circulation system and defacto online catalog) and Innovacq, providing order information for patrons online for the first time.

1984

Serials module added to the Innovacq system.

1984

Expanded domestic approvals with a Science Plan with YBP.  Removed medicine in 1995 and changed to all slips in 2005.  Too expensive for approval.

1987

Expanded domestic approvals with a Social Science/Humanities Plan with YBP.

1994

First library to implement OCLC Promptcat with YBP.

1998

Moved from NOTIS library system to III’s Millennium system for both the catalog and back end.

2002

Implemented Serials Solutions (vendor) for e-journal content. 

January 2004

Transitioned from OCLC Passport (command line search interface which charged per retrieval) to OCLC CatME (allowed working offline and expanded search options)

Summer 2004

Implemented Metafind Federated Search and WebBridge openURL link resolver.

Library of Michigan and Law Library catalogs merged with MSUL catalog.

2008

MSUL Dubai branch opened; Dubai collection added to catalo

Served as beta partner to develop ContentPro, an Innovative federated search too

2009

Vision Task Force report. 

July 2009

New public catalog interface launched.

August 18, 2009

Implemented SkyRiver bibliographic utility; concluded overlapping use of OCLC Connexion two months later.

January 2011

Started transmitting requests to have checks cut through the Enterprise Business System (EBS) using software created by Bill Wheeler to translate the output from III Millennium to a format acceptable to EBS.

April 14, 2011

W106 offices torn down; walls painted and new furniture installed for Acquisitions.

August 2011

AirPac (mobile version of the online catalog) installed.

July 2012

Upgraded from Innovative Millennium ILS to Sierra.

Summer 2012

Google digitization project began. 

March 2013

Implemented RDA (new cataloging standard) for all original cataloging.

The last HathiTrust record was loaded into the catalog.  Total loaded was 1,547,184 bibliographic records.

August 2014

ProQuest Summon discovery layer (SearchPlus) implemented .

October 2014

Swets Information Service (subscription management vendor) bankruptcy; lost prepay funds as a result.

December 2014

Wiley Publishers forgave nearly $800,000 in subscription costs for 2015 as a result of Swets bankruptcy.

March 2015

Rovi Collection arrived.

May 2015

Decommissioned Encore server.

June 2015

Switched from SkyRiver bibliographic utility back to OCLC Connexion.

July 2015

Began Rovi Media Collection metadata creation process.

January - April  2016

Beta tested a YBP-III Acquisitions API (ultimately not purchased).

May 2016

Began automated authority control implementation with Backstage Library Works.

June 2017

MSU Libraries Visioning Task Force Report