Unified Library Management System
Project to implement a shared library services platform and discovery system to support the collaborative management and delivery of library resources across the CSU.
Communication
ULMS Committees
Task forces
- Acquisitions Task Force (2024-present)
- Linked Data Task Force
- Norm rules task force (2024-present)
- Inclusive Description Task Force
Migration and Implementation (2015-2017)
Training Materials
- Primo Glossary of Terms
- Alma Glossary of Terms
- Common tasks in Alma
- Videos and Reading by Functional Area
- Training materials created by CSU campuses
- CSU Primo Training Calls (from 2017)
- CSU-led Alma Webinars (from 2016)
- Analytics Training by ExL
- MARC Format Training
- Workflows
- ULMS Summer Meeting 2018
- ULMS Summer Meeting 2019
- For Those New To The ULMS
Best Practices/Processes
- Best Practices for SalesForce
- Known Issues
- Alma / Primo Schedule of Processes
- Archived NERS Enhancement Cycles
- Reporting performance issues in SalesForce
- Cloud Apps
- Alma/Primo Enhancement Cycle 2022-2023
- Rapido/RapidILL Enhancement Cycle 2022-2023
Policies and procedures
- Acquisitions Working Group
- Analytics Working Group
- Discovery Working Group
- ERM Working Group
- Fulfillment Working Group
- Resource Management Working Group
- Resource Sharing Working Group
- Systems Policies, Best Practices & Procedures
Project updates
Chancellor’s Office
· Chris Lee has released a new CSU-wide Canvas course to train our CSU staff on resource sharing named “Rapido 101”, expanding on training offered by Ex Libris on Rapido to make it CSU-specific, and to connect certification and badging to this course in order to give resource sharing staff more permissions in the ULMS. Use this link and sign in with your campus SSO to make an account and enroll in the course: https://csuco.instructure.com/enroll/FATDEE https://csuco.…
Chancellor’s Office
The SDLS/CO department is reviewing the ULMS listserv memberships to make sure we are reaching all the appropriate staff and faculty and that our communications can be more targeted to areas of the system, without too many duplicate messages.
SCELCapalooza https://scelcapalooza2024.sched.com/ is coming up at the end of February 2024 on the Los Angeles campus of Loyola Marymount University. Folks from the CO that will attend some of the days: SDLC (Kirstie Genzel,…
Chancellor’s Office
CO staff presented the Rapido evaluation to COLD on December 7, 2023 https://calstate.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/COLD/pages/2842755086/COLD+FULL+Draft+Meeting+Notes+December+2023. Thank you to all the Deans that reviewed the report ahead of time and all the staff and faculty that contributed to the report.…