We migrated from Sierra to Polaris, and our go-live date was May 7. Our migration package included live virtual training and access to the recordings. We also strongly encouraged our staff to explore the Polaris LibGuides (short videos, Word and PDF files) to familiarize themselves with the Polaris procedures and vocabulary (picklist, not hold slips).
I attended the 2024 IUG Conference in Detroit and saw the presentation about Allen County Libraries’ (Indiana) a fast migration and how they leveraged SharePoint as a consistent place to check for information, including announcements (which they also emailed to all staff).
I was approved by our director and implementation team to create and maintain our Polaris Portal in SharePoint (I oversee our SharePoint).
Preparing for launch, the Polaris Portal became a primary access point for live and on-demand training links, documentation, training server, timeline of milestones and an archive of news articles (emailed).
As we moved through the migration phases, we kept our staff experience in mind, adapting the Polaris Portal to keep the news and most necessary information at the top for easy access.
The Polaris Portal remains a key access point for current and new staff to access links to training, documentation, Polaris Leap, reports and regular news.