Watch Me Search, Training and Documentation Working Group
Sep 18, 2025
Alma’s Persistent Search bar offers powerful searching capabilities, but it can be difficult to remember how to get the results you need and which search drop-downs to use.
Webinars & Videos
Watch Me Work: Acquisitions Working Group
Jul 23, 2025
Presenters Robin Buser (Columbus State Community College), Cara Calabrese (Miami University), Marty Jenkins (Wright State University), and Sean Kennedy (Kent State University) demonstrate the fisca
Configuration Training: Technical Services, Acquisitions: Using an acquisition work order when receiving a physical item (session 4, part 4 of 5)
Apr 8, 2025
Using an acquisition work order when receiving a physical item
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OhioLINK LSP Working Group Update
Apr 8, 2025
This update highlights what the LSP Working Groups are working for the OhioLINK migration to Alma and Primo VE. Key highlights include:
Configuration Training: Technical Services, Acquisitions: COUNTER usage reports (session 3, part 4 of 4)
Apr 7, 2025
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Configuration Training: Technical Services, Acquisitions: Ordering, activating and invoicing for electronic inventory (session 3, part 3 of 4)
Apr 7, 2025
Ordering electronic inventory from the member institution and from the Community Zone
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Configuration Training: Technical Services, Acquisitions: Ordering, receiving and invoicing for physical inventory (session 3, part 2 of 4)
Apr 7, 2025
Include using an acquisition work order when receiving an ordered item
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Configuration Training: Technical Services, Acquisitions:Acquisitions infrastructure (session 3, part 1 of 4)
Apr 7, 2025
Vendors, funds and ledgers, licenses
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Acquisitions in Alma
Feb 21, 2025
A panel of librarians on the Acquisitions Working Group shared their thinking and plans for migrating their acquisitions data from Sierra to Alma (or not), how to prepare data for Alma migration, t
Walk Through the Go Live Checklist: Resource management (Individual Record Actions)
Jan 22, 2025
Covered in this session:
Walk Through the Go Live Checklist: Acquisitions (Electronic ordering and activating and invoicing for physical/electronic resources)
Jan 15, 2025
An Alma Primo Go Live Checklist for Acquisitions that goes over ordering, activation, and invoicing for electronic and physical resources.
Walk Through the Go Live Checklist: Acquisitions (Physical Ordering and Receiving)
Jan 8, 2025
A go live checklist walk through session for Acquisitions that begins with a demonstration followed by time for questions.
Project Leads Meeting, Using Alma for Data Review - Acquisitions and Course Data
Sep 20, 2024
Recording of Project Leads meeting with OhioLINK and Ex Libris
Project Leads Meeting, Electronic Acquisitions
Sep 5, 2024
Recording of Project Leads meeting with OhioLINK and Ex Libris
Project Leads Meeting, Print Acquisitions
Aug 29, 2024
Recording of Project Leads meeting with OhioLINK and Ex Libris
Technical Services and Acquisitions: Acquisitions Infrastructure (TS3) and Ordering (TS4)
Mar 26, 2024
Day two of the Vanguard Workshop Week covering more with acquisitions, receiving, invoicing and integration options.
Technical Services and Acquistions: Acquisitions Infrastructure (TS1) and Ordering (TS2)
Mar 25, 2024
Afternoon workshop geared towards acquisitions staff; review of funds and ledgers, accounts, vendors and licenses; part two goes over ordering options, end-to-end order processing for physical and
Acquisitions
Mar 12, 2024
Working with acquisitions in Alma
What e-Resources Managers Wish People Knew
Jul 18, 2023
Gain a better understanding of the work that maintains the e-resource infrastructure that librarians and users rely on, yet often don't think about.
OhioLINK Acquisitions Community of Interest Budgeting and Budget Forecasting Webinar
Dec 9, 2022
OhioLINK's Acquisitions Community of Interest (COI) groups virtual workshop on budgeting and budget forecasting featuring Joanna Voss (OhioLINK), Brian Gray (CWRU), and Thomas Hyland (Lakeland CC)
OhioLINK Acquisitions Community of Interest Virtual Spring 2022 Roundtable
Apr 15, 2022
Virtual Roundtable discussions with acquisitions librarians talking through the effects of library restructuring on acquisitions, challenges in library positions related to acquisitions work and bu
SILLVR: Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources Workshop
Mar 23, 2021
Streaming Interlibrary Loan Video Resources (SILLVR) is a collaborative pilot between the Auraria Library and C
