Weekly Update, July 28, 2025

July 28, 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. If you missed the first WMW Acquisitions Working Group session on Fiscal Rollover, you can watch it here.

On July 30, 2:00-3:00 PM, join the E-resource Management Working Group’s “Watch Me Work” session. 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.

SearchOhio pauses Aug. 1

Just a reminder. For those OhioLINK libraries who have encouraged students and faculty to also utilize local public library collections, SearchOhio, the public library consortium, will be unavailable from Aug 1, 5PM until the end of October. The consortium will be implementing an upgrade to its consortial borrowing software. Students and faculty with questions should contact their preferred public library’s circulation desk for assistance.

DIAD Policy Team meeting Aug 4, 10AM

The Database Improvement and Discoverability (DIAD) Policy Team will meet on Monday August 4 from 10 am until 1 pm via Webex. DIAD focuses on metadata as it relates to integration between shared systems and local systems, authority work, database integrity, and the impact of displays and searching of metadata on end users in shared or integrated systems. For more information, please see the Ostaff DIAD page linked above.

ICYMI Summit recordings

Thanks for attending this year’s Summit. It was small but mighty with 665 members attending five sessions! If there anything you were interested in but missed, you can access recordings on the Summit page—including the Let’s Talk Leganto session from July 24.

“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