New Website Launch Affects MelCat Service

Mon, 09/04/2017 - 9:02am by josie

*UPDATE, 9/7/18* MeLCat will return October 1st! See the announcement post for details and thanks for your patience!

In January 2018, we'll be launching an all-new aadl.org. This new site will offer powerful new features, including the ability to freeze your requests without losing your place in line, notifications about new items from your favorite authors or series, a way to request entire series in order, and much more. You'll be hearing more about this project, and have an opportunity to try out the new site, as we get closer to launch.

This project will also include a new catalog and checkout system behind the scenes, and migrating to that new system will unfortunately require some service interruptions as we approach the cut over. MeLCat Interlibrary loan users will be the most affected by this, as we need to clear out all MeLCat checkouts from our system before we can cut over to the new system in January. After the new system comes up we can begin the process of rejoining MeLCat. Requesting items via MelCat Interlibrary loan will be suspended as of Monday, October 2. You can still place requests via MeLCat for the next month, and any requests placed between now and then will still come in as usual.

Other libraries that have suspended MeLCat for system migrations have rejoined within about 6 months. We hope to resume MelCat requests in Spring of 2018. We are sorry for this extended service outage, and the disruption and inconvenience that results. We are one of the busiest MeLCat lenders and borrowers in the state, and it is a complicated and time-consuming process. During this suspension of MelCat, we will still offer traditional Interlibrary Loan services, and more details about that are available here.

Thanks again for your steady use of MelCat, a valuable statewide lending service, and thanks in advance for your patience as we work to bring a more responsive experience to you at aadl.org.

Josie