Heritage Cirqa update

Here is the lastest update from IS Oxford regarding the upgrade to Heritage Cirqa.  I will keep you informed of any further news and once the first few upgrades have taken place, and any subsequent patches are in place, we can begin looking at the timeframe for switching to this new product.

We are currently planning to release the Heritage Cirqa upgrade to customers on Tuesday 7th August 2012.

Heritage Cirqa has already been rolled out to hosted customers and so it has undergone considerable testing. All environments differ so we strongly advise that you undertake a trial upgrade initially in an environment as close to your final, live, configuration as possible. This can be run alongside your existing copy of Heritage.

If you do not have a pressing need to upgrade to Heritage Cirqa, you may wish to hold off until later in the year as there will undoubtedly be further updates before then. The interface is so similar to the existing Heritage that no training of staff or students is expected to be required and we consider that upgrading after the start of the academic year will not cause disruption beyond the time taken for the switch-over.

Age restrictions

The settings relating to age restricted loans have been changed on Heritage.  It is no longer possible to override the warning message when students who are under 18 present an over 18 DVD for loan.

This will help us to ensure that we fulfil our legal requirements in this regard and goes towards our safeguarding efforts in the LRCs.  So please remember to enter the BBFC rating when cataloguing DVDs so we can make sure they will all be caught by this check process.