Widener University libraries consists of 3 libraries, each on a separate campus – the main campus is in Southeastern Pennsylvania, with two Law School campuses, one in Delaware 20 minutes from the main campus and the other in Pennsylvania, about 2 hours away. We migrated to FOLIO from III’s Sierra ILS, after many years with the same library system. We expected that there would be a rather sharp learning curve with many changes to our workflows as we moved to FOLIO. As part of the standard FOLIO migration we met weekly with our wonderful IPM team, meeting often amongst ourselves, via Teams and Zoom. Many of the librarians and staff have never met one another in person, but after many months of regular meetings as well as training sessions, we grew comfortable working together. At some points in the migration there were unexpected hiccups, times when the migration team didn’t stop to hit us over the head and tell us we needed to see our data differently. I would like to focus on some of these hiccups, to hopefully help the next wave of new FOLIO libraries save time and effort.
