April 22, 2024
LSP Migration
- Please register here for the next OhioLINK LSP Migration Milestone Update on May 10 at 10-11AM. If you can’t make it, the recording will be posted on Ostaff.
- Ex Libris has completed pulling catalog data from members’ Sierra systems.
- Ex Libris continues to distribute migration forms to Migration Project Leads in Basecamp. These forms are used to map libraries’ Sierra data to Alma’s structure.
- Anyone with LSP questions is encouraged to talk with their local LSP Project Lead.
- The Working Groups continue to meet, with minutes posted to their LSP pages as they are approved.
Announcements
Spring eTutoring ends May 3
Students who attendparticipating institutionscan receive free OhioLINK eTutoring through Friday, May 3, 2024.eTutoring services resume May 28th, 2024.If your institution would like to learn more about our asynchronous writing assignment reviews and live virtual tutoring collaborative, please contact Patti Grimes atetutoring@ohiolink.edu.
Summit 2024 “Year in Review” and Keynote
OhioLINK’s Membership Summit 2024 again will offer webinars from May until August. Thank you to the 2024 Summit Planning Committee: Co-chairs Melanie McGurr and Melanie Smith-Farrell of University of Akron, Past Chair Katy Kelly of University of Dayton, and Mira Scarnecchia, Sharon Richter, and Jennifer Casteen of Columbus State Community College.
Please register for the OhioLINK Year-in-Review, May 9, 2-3PM and the Summit Keynote, May 22 at 2-3PM. Jason Griffey, Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, will talk with the OhioLINK community about AI, its possibilities, and the potential future for libraries. You can read the full description for Griffey’s keynote “A Sufficiently Advanced Technology: The Future and Past of AI and Machine Learning” as well as learn more about him on the Summit 2024 Ostaff page.
Summit “Steal My Idea” call for participants
We love to learn from our OhioLINK colleagues! The 2024 OhioLINK Membership Summit would like to invite people to submit a brief “how to” proposal of their idea that other libraries would find useful.We are looking for ideas that can be presented in 5-10 minutes. Have you implemented a great idea at your library? Do your student workers rave about your management style? Did you create a cool tool or workflow? Did you catch the attention of administration with your amazing reports? Did you find work/life balance?Submit your proposal through this formby Friday, May 3. You can absolutely nominate an OhioLINK colleague who had a great idea, and we’ll invite them to present!
ArchivesSpace Hosting by Lyrasis offer open until June 15
A reminder that OhioLINK has worked with Lyrasis to offer discounts for ArchivesSpace Hosting to interested OhioLINK members. Details about the offer and a link to the Information Session are available on Ostaff.
New OhioLINK logos available on Ostaff
If you need the new OhioLINK “Heart of it all” logo, we’ve added an OhioLINK logos Ostaff page (log in required) with links for downloads and simple guidelines for straightforward applications. You also can find instructions for how to use a custom logo or an OhioLINK “flag” for Springshare LibGuides. (Thanks to Brian Gray and Brian Richards!) Search for “Logos” or look under “Support and General Information” in the right-hand menu.
Invitation to participate in DOAJ survey
DOAJ (an OhioLINK Opt-in) has commissioned Gold Leaf to survey the community to better understand how to maximize DOAJ’s impact with limited resources and ensure that data collected is relevant, necessary, and useful. The survey should take 10-15 minutes to complete and will close on Friday, May 6, 2024. A preview PDF is available for download.
Systems and Platforms
RAVE Link server upgrade
OhioLINK will upgrade the RAVE server on Tuesday April 23 at 7am. There may be a brief outage for RAVE links during this time. If you have issues with RAVE links, please email support@ohiolink.edu .
Professional
OhioLINK/Springer Nature Symposium on Open Science, May 8, 9-11:45AM
Springer Nature invites OhioLINK librarians to share insights into broadening the reach and support for publishing open access (OA) research. The symposium will provide practical guidance on navigating the evolving landscape of scholarly communication:
- Setting the Stage for Affordability Initiatives at Syracuse University Libraries
- OER at OKState: Centering Faculty Expertise
- Open Science at Springer Nature
- SCELC Transformative Agreement Data
Collection, outreach, scholarly communications, and subject librarians—or librarians passionate about open research—will benefit from the sessions. More information and register here. Registrants will receive a schedule with presenter bios and are welcome to attend only the sessions most relevant for them.
Delta Think, "The Evolving Value of OhioLINK’s Journal Packages in a Complex OA Landscape: A Framework for Local Resource Decisions," May 15
OhioLINK and Delta Think created and has updated a custom analysis of the consortium’s shared subscription content to maintain value for the 117 member libraries. While the initial promise of more OA content presumed a corresponding decrease in subscription content, analyses have shown that subscription output across the OhioLINK packages has remained fairly consistent. OhioLINK’s Joanna Voss and Amy Pawlowski and Delta Think’s Dan Pollock will be joined by Case Western Reserve University Library’s Brian Gray to discuss aspects of the framework. We will share this framework, so that others may apply the thinking to their own analyses. May 15, 10-11AM. Click to register.
NOTSL Spring 2024 Meeting, May 17
The Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians’ Spring 2024 meeting, Successful Recipes for Patron Access: Innovating TS Work to Better Serve Patrons, will be held on Friday, May 17, at Cuyahoga Community College (aka Tri-C). This meeting offers practical examples of how libraries have leveraged Technical Services workflows to increase patron access. Register via Eventbrite. Visit NOTSL’s website for full program information.
OpenCon Ohio 2024, May 17
Attend OpenCon Ohio 2024 via Zoom on Friday, May 17, with asynchronous activities earlier in the week.This year’s theme will be Innovations in Open Education. See the OpenCon website for updates.
Miscellanea
Central Catalog searches of interest, Apr 15 - 21
- Marketing mix
- Two dimensional materials
- Data freshness
