Weekly Update, June 24, 2024

June 24, 2024

LSP Migration

  • The July LSP Milestone Update has been rescheduled to July 9, 3-4pm from July 11 at 2-3pm. Register here. (If you registered for the July 11 meeting, you should have gotten a notification about the change but don’t need to re-register.) The meeting will be recorded if you are unable to attend.
  • The LSP Project Overview page has been revised to highlight the latest information available. This includes a new “Meet Your New LSP” section created by the Training and Documentation Working Group and an updated LSP Migration graphic that shows Ex Libris’ Define, Build, Deploy segments within the main migration phase.
  • The Vanguard Libraries panel presentation has been posted to Ostaff webinars page.
  • Anyone with LSP questions is encouraged to talk with their Migration Project Leads. If your they don’t know the answer, they’ll know where to find it.

Announcements

OhioLINK office closed July 4

The OhioLINK central office will be closed Thursday July 4th. If you need to report an emergency outage during this time, please contact the OARnet 24/7 Service Desk at 1-800-627-6420 and identify your report as an OhioLINK issue and provide them with the name of your institution and your contact information. For all other questions and non-emergency issues, please email OhioLINK Support or complete the support form on our site.

Summit 2024: E-resources LINKup discussion, June 25, 1-2PM

Use this link to join the Electronic Resources LINKup open discussion on June 25, 1-2PM. This open discussion will be moderated by Simon Robins, University of Dayton and Gregg Harris, University of Akron. You find recordings for previous sessions, including the June 12 “Open Education Network-Certified Librarians at OhioLINK Institutions,” on the Summit 2024 Ostaff page.

Systems and Platforms

GO goes live!

OhioLINK is activating its new GO service. By late Wednesday libraries will see:

  • All links containing "proxy.ohiolink.edu" will redirect to GO
  • All links on the OhioLINK A-Z page should "just work" 
  • Off-campus links in e-resource catalog records will redirect to GO.

Find details on the new Ostaff GO FAQpage. Thank you to all our members who helped test GO. Every effort was made to review as many resources as possible. Should there be a problem with a GO link, please open a ticket using our General Support Form.

Miscellanea

Central Catalog searches of interest, June 17 – 23