Overview
Announcements
Announcements
SearchOhio Go Live
SearchOhio members will be going live on October 27. Initially, SearchOhio libraries will only be borrowing/lending among their public library members. OhioLINK member libraries will rejoin borrowing & lending with SearchOhio in early December. This will give our public library colleagues time to make sure that any new workflows are working as expected before we start lending between our two consortia.
Library Mobile Wave 2 Implementations Start in November
Wave 2 – Cohort 1: Ashland, Hiram, Muskingum, Wilmington
Wave 2 – Cohort 2: Lourdes, PCJ
Wave 2 – Cohort 3: Mount Union, MTSM, Findlay, Wittenberg
Wave 2 – Cohort 4: Defiance, Heidelberg
Wave 2 cohorts will officially start with a welcome call on November 5.. EX Libris Project Managers are reaching out with more details, including scheduled times for weekly project meetings.
Alma Digital
For OPAL CONTENTdm participants that want to migrate to Alma Digital, we will take care of configuring Alma Digital and migrating both the metadata, collection structure, and the files for your collections. We plan to migrate the CONTENTdm collections, metadata, and files as-is and replicate the general setup in CONTENTdm in Alma digital. If, instead, you prefer to handle the migration yourself or to make significant changes as part of the migration, you will certainly have that option.
We have not yet determined the exact time frame for migrating each institution or its collections. We’ll work that out with each library and as a group over the coming weeks. The upcoming OhioLINK Ex Libris cohorts are not technically implementations: during the project, Ex Libris will provide training but there is no commitment to complete any configuration or to “go live” at the end. In that sense, their process is informational and there’s no rush to implement within a specific timeframe.
OPAL Representatives
OhioLINK LSP OPAL Contacts
LSP OhioLINK Working Groups
- Acquisitions: Jenni Royce (Findlay)
- Cataloging and Metadata: Tim Collins (Baldwin Wallace) and Matilda Davis-Northrup (Otterbein)
- Circulation and Resource Sharing: Adam Green (John Carroll), James Gilmer (Tiffin), and Matthew Lawson (Wittenberg)
- Discovery and User Experience: Brigitte Galauner (Findlay) and Sharon Gravius (Ursuline)
- E-Resource Management: Joshua Byerly (Ohio Dominican)
- Training and Documentation: Lauren Marshall (John Carroll)
OhioLINK User Experience Policy Team
Allen Reichert, Otterbein University - Co-chair
Jenni Royce - University of Findlay - Independent Member