April 14, 2025
LSP Migration
- Apr 21: Please register for the next E-Resource Management Working Group open discussion at 2-3PM. More info below.
- May 20: Please register for the next live LSP Milestone, May 20 2-3PM
- May 23: INN-Reach print lending pauses until go live. A message has been posted on catalog search page to alert users. More info below.
- Please contribute Alma/Primo/Rapido training, documentation, or communication materials for consortial sharing and adaptation. More info below.
- Online configuration training with live Q&A began last week. Material covered in the in-person training can be reviewed in these recordings.
- Testing for Rapido Waves 4 & 5 will be active until mid-April. OhioLINK is holding daily Rapido office hours.
- New InfoHub content: Update “No Campus” Pickup Location Dropdown in Alma and Primo VE and Columbus State Community College Alma and Primo VE Training Materials
- Go Live Walk-Through demonstrations are complete. Find all ten here.
- New recordings: April 2025 LSP Milestone Update (21 minutes) and OhioLINK LSP Working Group Update (28 minutes)
- Recent micro-learning: Primo VE Views: Search Slots, Profiles, and Scopes Part 1
- Your LSP Project Lead can address any LSP question or concern.
Announcements
For faculty: Apply by Friday for OhioLINK Affordable Learning Course Redesign Grants
Are you interested learning more about reducing your students’ textbook costs and teaching with open resources? Apply by April 18 for OhioLINK’s Spring 2025 OER Course Redesign Grants. Instructors will receive a stipend for a customized review of their syllabus with an Open Educational Resources (OER)-specialist librarian and attend an online workshop. Learn more about the opportunity to teach with OER. Please contact Anna Bendo with any questions.
E-Resource Management Working Group open discussion, Apr 21, 2PM
The Electronic Resource Management LSP Working Group invites those who work directly with electronic resources, as well as any other interested library staff, to join us for another open discussion on April 21 at 2-3pm about the migration to Alma and what it means for e-resources both within the consortium and on your campus. Bring your questions and plans for e-resources activation and P2E form completion. Topics may include SUSHI setup, maintaining e-resources in Alma, usage statistics, and activating collections in Alma. Please feel free to submit questions or topics for discussion in advance. Registration is required. This session will be recorded.
DUX Open Call: How Will They Find It? Configuring Search Scopes, Profiles, and Slots, Apr 23, 10AM
Please register for the Discovery and User Experience Working Group open call on April 23 at 10AM. Search scopes, profiles, and slots are powerful tools to help guide your users to content in Primo VE but choosing and configuring these can be tricky. We will clarify how to use scopes, profiles, and slots while providing inspiration for those thinking about their own customizations. Laney Knight will provide a technical overview of search scopes, profiles, and slots and will offer details about the OhioLINK slot, CDI scope settings for eBook results, and Newspaper search. Aja Bettencourt-McCarthy, co-chair of the DUX Working Group, will share her experience developing custom scopes at the University of Cincinnati. There will be Q&A and discussion.
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 the recent OhioLINK/Wiley New Gold Open Access Author Workflow (for Librarians) on Ostaff.
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.
Introducing Auth25
Auth25 is a set of changes that replace the OhioLINK authentication system used by the EBC, EJC, and Music Center with our GO service. This means that off-campus, unproxied access to the EBC, EJC, and Music Center will be provided through your institution's proxy, similar to other e-resources. OhioLINK will communicate Auth25 details with ERIT over the next few weeks as we prepare for releases in May. Learn more about Auth25 on Ostaff.
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 or 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 used or adapted by other OhioLINK libraries. Upload a file or send a link to existing web resources using this form.
Alma Primo office hours on Weds.
OhioLINK will be holding open Alma Primo office hours each Wednesday in April from 11AM-12PM. The Webex link will not change for the five 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. Each office hours date will be in the LSP Calendar and reminders for upcoming dates will be in the LSP Update section of Weekly Updates. Dates and topics include:
- April 16: General topics
- April 23: Acquisitions (funds, ledgers, vendors, order workflow, physical receiving, invoicing) and cataloging (MDE functions, search external resources, OCLC integration profile, publishing profiles, import profiles)
- 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)
Professional
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.
