OPAL News
OPAL Migration Meeting:
April 11 at 10 am
Drop in for IPEDS/ACRL Office Hours
OhioLINK ICS Needs Your Input
Circulation Policy Survey
Cancelled this month
OhioNet will be closed Nov. 23 & 24 for Thanksgiving
Task Categories
Member's Guide
- Training and Mentoring
- How OPAL Works
- Getting Things Done
- Joint Subscriptions
- Quick Reference: Cataloging Manual, Circulation Manual, User-Services Resources, Itypes list
- Subscribe to Mailing Lists and the OPAL Updates & Tips Blog
- Have an idea that will benefit the group? Submit a Project Idea
Statistics & Reports
- Circulation Activity Reports / Web Management Reports
- EBSCO Academic Ebook Collection Usage
- Proxy Server Usage
- Google Analytics - Search stats and user behavior reports for catalog, EDS, CONTENTdm
Contact OPAL Support for access - Archived ACRL/IPEDS summaries & other reports
Shared Library Systems
- Sierra Integrated Library System (ILS) - Catalog
- CONTENTdm - OPAL Digital Collections
- Springshare - Libguides, LibApps, LibWizard
- EBSCO - Discovery Service, Databases, Full Text Finder
- Weeding Helper
OPAL Digital Collections
- Shared CONTENTdm Digital Repository - Explore original photographs, documents, and more
- How to participate & create your instance
- All OPAL Digital Collections
Support
- Questions about EZproxy, electronic resources, Inventory, Patron Loads, Record Loading, Weeding, Batch Deletion.
- System status at-a-glance (Sierra & proxy servers)
- Innovative Interfaces Sierra platform, EBSCO, Springshare, OCLC products
- EDS workflows & suggestions, holdings management, custom links
- Checklists to add/remove content or subscriptions
- Update hours open/days closed for circulation function in Sierra
- Update the OPAL directory
- Send a large file (not just for patron loads)
- Emergency Contact: 614-352-9411
