<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>What We Would’ve, We Should’ve, but We Didn’t or, If We Knew Then What We Know Now</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Betsy</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Freisen</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Many decisions and choices are made in the course of migrating to a new system and during the early days of implementation (e.g., data, training, staffing). Not all of those decisions work out to be the best ones. The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities went live in July, 2002. We are still struggling to reach peak performance. This presentation is about what ‘we didn’t do well.’ Our hope is that by admitting our problems, we will help new ALEPH institutions avoid similar pitfalls and problems.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Aleph</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8601">2003-06-02</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Conference or Workshop Item</mods:genre></mods:mods>