The Circulation Policy group has met twice, via teleconference, with representatives from TLC and we wanted to update everyone on some of the things we have been discussing and also give you insight from our limited perspective on what we can all expect when we go live in September.
TLC stands for The Library Corporation and we will be using their integrated library system called Carl.X. So far, we have seen that Carl.X is very flexible and has been able to accommodate everything that our system does now without overwhelming changes in the terminology and concepts that we currently use. Obviously this is new software for us, so everything looks different on the surface. The style of Carl.X reminds me of the Microsoft Office Suite which has universal options in a left pane and menu bars and specific options that run across the top of the window. As an example, here is a screenshot of one of the ‘setup’ menus.
