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Alma/Primo Update July 12, 2018
Looking for more than milestones? Find the full details here. Important activities and dates Recently Completed 2018-06-20: Configuration of Primo has been completed for all libraries that have submitted their second Primo workbook. 2018-05-30: Nearly all consortium libraries have completed…
Alma/Primo Update May 11, 2018
Looking for more than milestones? Find the full details here. Important activities and dates Recently Completed First data migration for all consortium libraries Initial Alma configuration completed Primo VE was made available to all consortium libraries In Process Reviewing migrated data in…
Alma/Primo Update April 16, 2018
Looking for more than milestones? Find the full details here. Important activities and dates Recently Completed Configuration forms First Primo workbooks First data migration for all consortium libraries Initial Alma configuration for all consortium libraries In Process Reviewing migrated data…
Alma/Primo Update March 23, 2018
Looking for more than milestones? Find the full details here. Important activities and dates Recently Completed Draft configuration forms In Process First data migration for all consortium libraries. This means that the state of Alma is in flux, with vanguard…
Alma/Primo Update March 6, 2018
Looking for more than milestones? Find the full details here. Important activities and dates Recently Completed 2018-02-28: Link resolver, P2E, and migration forms completed and sent to Ex Libris 2018-02-19: Forum boards created for Alma/Primo Work Groups In Process First…
Alma/Primo Update February 19, 2018
Looking for more than milestones? Find the full details here. Important activities and dates Recently Completed 2018-02-07: Training on the migration of Aleph data and how to complete migration forms 2018-02-14: Draft link resolver, P2E, and migration forms In Process …
Keeping up to date with the Alma/Primo Work Groups
The work groups will be sharing their work with the consortium using the forum. Eventually, each group will have documents to share. The Resource Management Work Group recently posted two documents. The first describes how the Aleph STA and 9xx…
Alma/Primo Update February 2, 2018
Looking for more than milestones? Find the full details here. Important activities and dates Recently Completed 2018-01-24: First project status call 2018-01-24: Second vanguard data load completed 2018-01-18 and 2018-1-19: Full consortium implementation kickoff 2018-01-16: Training on the migration of…
Martin Luther King, Jr collection available in Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Arch digital repository
The audio of Martin Luther King, Jr’s speeches, and transcript are now available at Minnesota State University, Mankato’s digital repository known as Arch. Read more about the collection at Minnesota State University, Mankato’s news highlights and stories from KEYC and…
New PALS Islandora community partner: Augsburg University
PALS is excited to announce that we are now working with Augsburg University to implement their digital repository using Islandora. From Stewart Van Cleeve, Digital Archives and Research Services Librarian at Augsburg University: “Augsburg University is excited to join other Minnesota…
New Version of MnPALS Plus and PALSdiscover in Production
PALS staff have been working on upgrading the underlying software for MnPALS Plus and PALSdiscover. We have upgraded the underlying Vufind software from version 2.4 to 3.1. Most changes are in background processes, there are few if any front end/public…