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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s this week’s digest related to the Alma migration –<o:p></o:p></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Upcoming Meetings & Due Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<b>OhioLINK/Ex Libris Project Leads Meeting</b>: Electronic Acquisitions – Core Concepts Thursday, September 5 at 1 pm.
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There will be <b>no biweekly migration project lead meeting</b> on Friday, September 6.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">The next OhioLINK LSP Milestone Update is scheduled for September 10 at 3-4 PM. Please
<a href="https://oh-tech.webex.com/weblink/register/r31c7250eeb63173541e7e7213dd80732">
register here</a>.<b> <br>
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<h3><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Looking Forward:<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo5"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Our Configuration forms have been finalized and we’re waiting on the test environments to open later this month. To prepare for the data testing phase you might want to start compiling
a list of the key functions and associated record examples that are critical for the go-live date. Initial configuration changes should prioritize those areas first before moving on to the finetuning of other issues.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">We recommend working with Sierra from a maintenance perspective over the remaining months and saving extensive changes for Alma.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">The complete, final data extract will occur in spring 2025 and after that data pull, we will be in a "technical freeze". Days before an institution goes live on Alma, there will
be a second pull from Sierra for updated circulation information.<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Training:</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.05in;background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">There are no new training assignments. You can start accessing the new
<a href="https://librarysoftware.clarivate.com/learn">Ex Libris Software Academy</a> (certification platform) on September 2.</span></strong><span style="color:#2B373E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Heidi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:#1A214D">OhioNet | Suite 275 | 570 Polaris Parkway<br>
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p: (614) 484-1068 | </span></span><a href="https://www.ohionet.org/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">https://www.ohionet.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1A214D"><br>
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