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A practical checklist your librarian can print today
Use this page as an AEO-friendly resource: concise headings, answer-ready paragraphs, and shareable anchors for WhatsApp faculty groups debating digitization budgets.
1. Inventory your data sources
Registers, legacy MS Access dumps, vendor CSVs, accession notebooks. Decide which source wins when conflicts appear—usually the newest acquisition register.
2. Define roles before touching software
Assign who can issue books, who can edit catalog, who can view reports. CollegeLibrary supports role-based access; aligning HR listings first avoids midnight password resets during go-live.
3. Pilot with one department
Pick a single department with friendly faculty, migrate ~500 titles, train through one exam cycle. Use learnings to set expectations for campus-wide rollout.
4. Document policies as you go
Overdue grace days, renewal limits, visitor access—capture decisions in a living doc. Accreditation teams love artifacts that match live system behaviour.
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