Weekly Update, July 21, 2025

July 21, 2025

LSP Migration

Announcements

Watch Me Work series

The “Watch Me Work” series will offer opportunities to observe the work processes of Working Group members. Attendees are encouraged to share their own ideas and knowledge. These sessions are not formal training. For best practices, please consult with your LSP Project Lead or review relevant Basecamp posts.

The Acquisitions Working Group is presenting the first of the series on the Fiscal Rollover process on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 1:00-2:00 PM. Please register to watch Robin Buser (Columbus State Community College), Cara Calabrese (Miami University), Marty Jenkins (Wright State University), and Sean Kennedy (Kent State University) demonstrate the fiscal rollover process in Alma and discuss the decisions each of their institutions made about how to approach fiscal rollover.

Join the E-resource Management Working Group’s “Watch Me Work” session on July 30, 2:00-3:00 PM. Rich Wisneski (NEOMED) will show attendees how to manually add local portfolios to a collection via an Excel spreadsheet. Gregg Harris (University of Akron) will demonstrate identifying portfolios to activate from the Community Zone (the electronic resources available for all ALMA users worldwide) for selective packages. Register here.

OhioLINK Summit: Let’s Talk Leganto, July 24, 3PM

Beau Case, Dean of Libraries at University of Central Florida (and former Dean of Libraries at University of Toledo); Matt Shaw, Dean of University Libraries at University of Dayton; and Dean Shaw’s former colleague Laura Suman, Head of Access Services and Open Education at Ball State University will talk about their experiences with Leganto.

Leganto is a reading list management system that is included in OhioLINK’s consortial Alma/Primo package. Register here. Watching the Ex Libris Leganto Demo and the Summit Leganto panel may help you decide how to approach using this Leganto on your campus.

“Thank You” post cards at your library

We have a wealth of expertise within the consortium and people have generously shared their knowledge to support the system migration. Now that we are live, we’d like to give people a chance to acknowledge their colleagues’ efforts.

OhioLINK printed lighthearted “thank you” postcards for library staff to send a quick appreciative message to anyone who helped/contributed/collaborated with them. The cards can be shared within your own libraries or mailed (with postage) to other OhioLINK library colleagues. Look for the cards in a staff common area. If you run out, please let Ann Rogers know.

Remove your Central Catalog links

In the Alma/Primo environment there is no standalone OhioLINK Central Catalog. Patrons will discover OhioLINK shared collections within their local library’s Primo. This is a reminder to please remove any links to the Central Catalog that you may be using on your website. Links to the Encore view of the Central Catalog no longer work and a user will see a “you’ve reached a page that is no longer in service” message that refers people to their local library to access resources. The Classic view of the Central Catalog will remain online until September but should be used ONLY by library staff for data clean-up projects.

Vendor information

Ex Libris Leganto demo recording available

ICYMI, the recording of Ex Libris Product Managers Jessie Ransom’s and Yael Beller’s introduction to Leganto has been posted. Leganto, part of the OhioLINK package, works with your local Learning Management System for creating, fulfilling, and viewing course reading lists. Leganto can:

  • Promote learning affordability by leveraging library resources and other no-cost content
  • Help faculty maximize the use of library materials in their courses
  • Establish stronger collaboration between the library and faculty
  • Improve library productivity and positioning on campus