July 22, 2024
LSP Migration
- The next Working Group Milestone Webex will be August 13 at 3-4pm. Register here.
- The Training and Documentation Working Group has published a glossary on the Summer 2024 Training Recommendations page. It will be updated as needed.
- Anyone with LSP questions is encouraged to talk with their Migration Project Lead. If your they don’t know the answer, they’ll know where to find it.
Announcements
OhioLINK co-developing resource sharing technology
OhioLINK will be co-developing the next-generation, peer-to-peer resource-sharing tool with Clarivate. To be implemented after the Alma migration is complete in mid-year 2025, the new technology will facilitate a quicker connection between OhioLINK and SearchOhio and will make finding and borrowing materials more user friendly. A Resource Sharing Advisory Board comprised of Ex Libris, OhioLINK, SearchOhio, and OhioLINK and SearchOhio Library Directors will offer guidance and feedback during the development process. We’ll keep OhioLINK members updated as work progresses.
Next Directors Open Discussion, Aug 7, 2 PM
Thomas Hyland of Lakeland Community College will moderate the next Directors’ discussion on August 7 at 2-3 p.m. A Webex invitation will be sent to the directors’ list. Details can also be found on the Ostaff Directors’ page.
Summit: Steal My Idea! July 25; Illuminating the Luminaries Program, Aug 8
Register here for Steal My Idea! on July 25, 10-11AM. The 2024 line-up includes: Student Led Makerspace; Student Craft Table; Boosting Research Productivity: A Writing Club Collaboration; The Golden Ticket - Marketing Event; and Collabs to Meet Students’ Non-academic Needs. Read full descriptions and presenter bios for each session.
Our last 2024 Summit session will be Illuminating the OhioLINK Luminaries Program, August 8, 2-3PM. Register here. Join Luminaries mentors Mira Scarnecchia of Columbus State Community College, Ione Damasco of University of Dayton, and Ken Irwin of Miami University to hear insights into the OhioLINK Luminaries program. Check out recordings for any sessions you may have missed on the Summit 2024 Ostaff page.
Systems and Platforms
GO is live!
OhioLINK activated the new GO service on June 26.
- All links containing “proxy.ohiolink.edu” will redirect to GO, including 856 field off-campus URLs in e-resource catalog records
- Off-campus links on the OhioLINK A-Z page are now GO links
- See the Ostaff GO FAQ for details
There are now instructions in the Ostaff InfoHub for “Updating OhioLINK Proxy URLs to GO Links” in local catalog records. If you have questions about GO or problems with GO links, please open a ticket using our General Support Form.
Miscellanea
Central Catalog searches of interest, July 15-21
OH-TECH at the Ohio State Fair, July 24-Aug 4
OhioLINK will be at the State Fair again with the Ohio Department of Higher Education and our OH-TECH “sibs,” OARnet, and Ohio Supercomputer Center. New this year, several Ohio institutions will join us in ODHE’s booth each day and visitors can take a virtual campus tour of many Ohio institutions using OSC’s VR headsets! If you’d like to visit on the day your institution will be there, contact Ann Rogers for the schedule. Find us in the (air-conditioned) Lausche Building just off the Cardinal Gate.
Call for Education Program Proposals
Share your expertise, best practices, research and strategies at LibLearnX 2025. The Call for Proposals is open thru August 12, 11:59 ET. Learn more at LibLearnX.
