Project Management

• Primo VE Evaluation began in early Jan and is planned to continue until late-May/early-June. Each campus will be participating and contributing to the evaluation and final call on whether to go into production with Primo VE or stay with Primo. The Discovery Committee is spearheading this work with support by the Chancellor’s Office.

• The CO met with Ex Libris in January and discussed their response to the Satisfaction Survey conducted in the Fall. They proposed a multi-pronged strategy around the major pain points listed in the report - content support and CDI - as well as the top issues raised by each committee. We are in the beginning stages of meeting on each point and working through how best to address each area.

• COLD will soon receive a proposal from Ex Libris to adopt Rapido, their next-generation resource sharing platform. This product was demonstrated to the CSU community by members of the CSU development team on January 27.

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• Working Group

  • Primo VE evaluation

    • The evaluation of Primo VE continues apace. Since beginning 2021, we have held three forums regarding the evaluation. A general forum introducing campuses to the process on January 22^nd, and two others detailing specific tasks which are part of Ex Libris’ Go VE task list. Past forums are available here VE Forums . Future forum topics and dates are visible at the prior link as well.

    • Active participants are registered in Basecamp and can contact Ex Libris through that platform. There is a slack channel at #primo-ve-evaluation where people are sharing information and tips. 

    • An outline of the evaluation that the Committee will ask campuses to perform, once they have configured VE to their satisfaction, is linked from the December 18^th meeting notes: 2020-12-18 Meeting notes   

    • Testing will primarily take place in April, though if campuses are ahead of schedule they should feel free to begin earlier and the DFC will get final plans with instructions and testing data submission forms available in a timely manner to facilitate the process. 

    • General information about the evaluation is on the wiki: https://calstate.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UPVE/overview . All extant documentation about the Go VE process has been collected on this page, courtesy of Christine Holmes: Primo VE Documentation  People who are interested in the process and want to learn more are encouraged to watch ‘Introduction to Primo VE’ and ‘Go VE: Learn about the New Self-Switch Process and Adopt Primo VE’ then explore other videos if they want further details.

    • If anyone at any campus has questions about the front-end analysis of Primo VE, they are encouraged to contact DFC chair Gabriel Gardner or vice chair Christian Ward.

  • Due to the time sensitive nature of the VE evaluation and the complexity of the project, most other business of the DFC has been tabled.