Weekly Update, April 28, 2025

April 28, 2025

LSP Migration

Announcements

Auth25 kicks off quietly this week with GO 3.0

Auth25 is our code name for a set of changes to swap out the OhioLINK legacy authentication system with our GO.ohiolink.edu service. This Wednesday, April 30, we will update GO with new features for Auth25. All existing GO links will continue to work without any noticeable change. The week of May 5, we will launch Auth25 versions of the EBC and EJC. Our final deployment of Music Center occurs the week of May 12. See details on the Auth25 Ostaff page, including “How do I prepare for Auth25?”

Last Alma Primo office hour, Apr 30

OhioLINK will be holding open Alma Primo office hours each Wednesday in April from 11AM-12PM. The Webex link will not change for the dates in April. Registration is not required, and people may join/leave at any point. We’ll spend the hour answering questions; there will not be a set presentation. The calls will not be recorded.

  • April 30: E-resources and Primo VE (activating electronic resources, managing electronic resources, working with Primo VE search profiles, making changes to Primo VE views, updating Primo VE labels, working with Primo VE interoperability tools)

Differing approaches for rolling out Alma, Primo VE, and Rapido, May 6, 2PM

Please register here for a panel discussion with Working Group chairs Susan Ashby of University of Akron, Megan Kickbush of Xavier University, and Chris Hudson of Kenyon College on a wide range of rollout topics, such as:

  • when your librarians will begin to use Alma
  • how to handle transitioning accounts from Sierra to Primo
  • approaches and timing for rolling out Primo VE for discovery
  • communications for students, faculty, and staff
  • timing for updating instructional materials
  • and more!

This session will be recorded.

Changes to OA publishing in Wiley fully open access journals begin May 17

Wiley is changing its processes for applying for APC coverage in its fully open access journals on May 17. Hybrid journals are not affected. With this change, requests for APC coverage made at submission are provisional until allocation availability and institutional affiliation are reconfirmed following acceptance for publication. More information is available on Ostaff for librarians and for authors (no Ostaff account needed). View the recording of OhioLINK Wiley New Gold Open Access Author Workflow (for Librarians) on Ostaff.

The 2025 “OMG Too Busy” Summit

Everyone is working above capacity this year and the Summit, OhioLINK’s summer semester web series, will accommodate. Only 5 sessions. We will start in May, skip right over June (because, well, you know why) and pick up in July. Here’s the Summit lineup with one TBD. More information will be available on the Summit’s Ostaff page.

  • May 19, 3-4PM – OhioLINK Year in Review. Come to hear Amy present the highlights! Register here.
  • May 21, 11AM-12PM Keynote - Being your best in times of extraordinary stress: a practical guide to mental fitness at work. Natalie Siston will talk about how change is constant—but stress doesn’t have to be. Discover how to shift out of stress and into focus, resilience, and performance with techniques you can use immediately. In preparation, participants are invited to take a 5-minute Saboteur Assessment. Participation in the assessment is free, voluntary, and results are confidential and protected by a strict privacy policy. Learn more about Positive Intelligence. Register here.
  • July 8, 3-4PM – Primo Bingo! Erik Ziedses des Plantes at University of Dayton will lead this fun post-go-live activity as a refresher of Primo tasks, features, and other tricks. This "getting to know you" activity premiered at UD this past spring. The prize? Fun times with your colleagues and increased knowledge of this new tool! Register here.
  • July 16, 11AM – 12PM – Beyond Go Live: FLVC librarians share their post-go-live experiences. Join three librarians from a range of library types for a moderated panel discussion about their post-go live experiences. FLVC, a statewide 150 multi-type academic library consortia, migrated to Alma in 2021. Register here.
  • July TBD – Let’s talk Leganto. Beau Case, Dean of Libraries at University of Central Florida (and former Dean of Libraries at University of Toledo) and Matt Shaw, Dean of University Libraries at University of Dayton (former of Dean of Libraries at Ball State), will talk about their experiences with Leganto. Leganto is a resource list management system for creating, fulfilling, and viewing course reading lists for instructors, librarians, and students and is included in OhioLINK’s consortial Alma/Primo package. Registration info to come.

INN-Reach print lending pauses May 23

As part of our shift from INN-Reach to Rapido for print lending, users will not be able to place new requests through the Central Catalog or the SearchOhio catalog starting May 23 at 5pm. Lending will resume with other OhioLINK libraries as we go live on Alma. Lending with SearchOhio libraries will resume in fall 2025. Users with currently checked out materials will not be able to renew. OhioLINK and SearchOhio have placed messages on catalog search pages. See more on the Resource Sharing Milestones page.

Training and Documentation Working Group call for crowdsourced content

Has your library created Alma/Primo/Rapido training and documentation, content related to circulation, Rapido, or student/faculty communications/instructional materials that you could share with the OhioLINK community? The Training and Documentation Working Group invites you to contribute to a “crowdsourced” collection of resources that could be adapted by other OhioLINK libraries. Use this form to upload a file or send a link to existing web resources.

Webinars

New EBSCOhost User Interface Q&A, May 7, 10AM

Have questions about the new EBSCOhost User Interface? EBSCO representatives will be available to answer OhioLINK librarians’ questions on May 7 at 10 a.m. Please register here. If your library has not yet migrated, EBSCO recommends having access to your institution’s preview of the new EBSCOhost UI ahead of attending the session. If you are unable to attend on May 7, EBSCO has also added an additional public Q&A session to their schedule to accommodate OhioLINK libraries on May 6 at 2 p.m. Register here for May 6 “Get to Know the New EBSCOhost.”

The recording of the April 8 “Using EBSCO Experience Manager for Administrators” is available. The EBSCOhost User Interface Migration page on Ostaff has also been updated with additional resources provided by EBSCO following last week’s webinars.

Professional

Registration open: NOTSL Spring Meeting, May 9

Register here for the Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians (NOTSL) Fall General Meeting, focused on Advocating and Support for Technical Services. Tim Keller, Head of Discovery and Metadata Services at Oberlin College, will present “Technical Service IS public service: raising awareness of and visibility for Technical Services.” Masha Stepanova, Head of Cataloging at The Ohio State University Libraries, will present “Flex your influence to lift up your team.” Masha Stepanova and Cara Calabrese will lead an interactive activity they have used to generate a vision statement that aligns with how Technical Services performs and wants to be seen. View full program.

Virtual OVGTSL 2025: The Cornerstone of the User Experience, May 15

The Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL) conference is fully online this year. It will be held May 15-16. See the schedule and register here.

Miscellanea

Central Catalog searches of interest, April 21-27