With Careful Consideration and Managed Expectations: Migration from Ex Libris' Voyager to Ex Libris' Alma/Primo

The University of Kentucky migrated from their long-standing ILS, Ex Libris Voyager with SFX, to Ex Libris Alma (and Primo) in six short months! As the person who runs reports and performs authority control and batch changes to UK’s MARC metadata for print resources, Julene was responsible for migrating that metadata so that it displayed well in Alma / Primo with minimal data loss, for training all library faculty and staff on the use of Resource Management and Analytics, and for coordinating the multitude of migration events with the Systems, Acquisitions, Circulation, Electronic Resources, and ILL librarians. She will describe a few key migration decisions that are applicable to this Voyager to Alma migration or to migrations generally, and make a few suggestions for those considering or in the middle of migration!