This is the headline for a short snippet by a LJ blogger:  King County Goes Live with Customized Evergreen ILS.

Now why would he say that?  Makes me a tad cranky that they make it sound like KCLS is off on their own unique version of Evergreen when nothing could be farther from the truth.  So, I submitted this comment to that blog post:

In keeping with my migration metaphor - that it's more like the tide coming in than switching on the light - we are now in the second wave.  The punch list is not short but there are no big, scary show stoppers on it.  And honestly, the expectation is that the punch list will continue to expand and contract over the next several weeks and maybe even months.  And then after that, there will be new development projects underway. Okay, let's be honest, I'm sure the development projects will be ongoing for the foreseeable future.  And that's totally awesome.

It's 2:30 in King County and the ESI team just went out for lunch.  That's right, Day One, and there is no panic.  In fact, the feeling is closer to giddy.  The people in charge of addressing the problems that arise on day one are handling them as they come in.  There is no deluge of staff emails or patron complaints.  It is just going along not feeling like a regular day exactly but not feeling like an ILS migration day either.  

It's 9am and the libraries are opening here in King County and guess what...they are running their AMH equipment and checking in material!

Patrons are using the 24/7 automated check-in units, Preston is still sorting all the transit items, tote check-in is happening.  This is a big step forward and you can feel the excitement starting to build.

It's the start of day two of Go Live.  Turns out going live doesn't happen all at once like turning on a light.  It's more like the tide coming in. 

Soon after that last post, the check-in notices got squared away and Karen gave the go-ahead to start checking in items.  Here was Matt's tweet:

We're gathering around the console and watching transactions. Been a few crazy days but this is a great group to work with, Equinox rocks!

Here's what's working:

1. Central sort is working just fine
2. Library Mates are cut-over and ready for action
3. All of the offline mode data has been imported
4. Check-in messages are registering properly now

The issue now is notices.  Not all the notices associated with check-in are working exactly right so the ESI team is pounding away at the code to get those to where they need to be.  Once Karen, KCLS Circulation Coordinator, gives the notices code a nod, everything goes live and all the backlog starts being processed.

Not much to report here at the end of the day.  There a a couple Evergreen issues still being troubleshot (troubleshooted?) and also a seemingly unrelated problem with one of the staff induction stations at one of the libraries (so the Lyngsoe team has something to do!).

So here's the latest. Since about 11am, there has been a lot of standing around by the Lyngsoe staff because there continues to be a problem with how the holds are being sorted.  There's something on the Evergreen side (or so that's the current belief) and ESI has been working on finding the issue.  Returns are being sorted just fine but not the holds.  This is only in the libraries.  The Preston central sorter has been chugging along since about 10:30 this morning and it is communicating successfully with Evergreen.

It's Go Live day and I'm at the Preston Distribution Center where all the material that was in the process of filing a hold on Monday (when the old system was brought down) still sits. The plan is to point the sorter server at the new Evergreen system and start sorting this stuff. It couldn't be done earlier than now because all of the data was being migrated to the new system on Tuesday and part of Wednesday.  Lots of checking and testing Wednesday so running the sorter is really the first step of the actual move to going live.