Notes 08/24/16
CALSTATE weekly call
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
11:00 AM
I. ExL team availability
ï‚· Lynn out of office Wed-Fri Aug 24-26
ï‚· Dolph out of office Mon-Tue Aug 29-30
ï‚· Svetlana out of office full week of Aug 29
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I. Primo status
ï‚· NZ publishing status - COMPLETED (see Basecamp)
ï‚· Sandbox population process to begin soon, will be ready in time for trainings / calls in October
ï‚· Check-in about interface / workbook questions
ï‚· Note: deadlines extended (links to Basecamp below)
ï‚· Mon, Aug 29 - Complete institution-specific Primo configuration workbook and attach it
to your institution's Primo configuration caseÂ
ï‚· Mon, Sep 12 - Complete consortium-specific Primo configuration workbook and attach
it to consortium Primo configuration caseÂ
ï‚· Fri, Oct 14 - Primo configuration applied
ï‚· Fri, Oct 14 - Primo back office access opened on Primo productionÂ
ï‚· Primo functional calls in October (see Basecamp to-do list: Primo (Training for Primo
administrators) - Oct 2016)
ï‚· Lynn and Jim will alternate leading the calls.
ï‚· Calls will begin with a review of your submitted questions and then move to an open Q&A as
time allows.
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I. Alma status
ï‚· Data checking: Questions or cases to highlight?
ï‚· Aug 9-11: Alma Workshop @SJSU -- feedback gathering in progress
ï‚· Resource Sharing Governance Task Force
ï‚· Action item: Svetlana & Megan testing a sample rota set up for 3 vanguard institutions
ï‚· Regular biweekly meetings start Aug 26
ï‚· Meetings become weekly for the month of October
ï‚· Alma functional call Thursday Aug 18 - wrapup of call cycle & workshop; planning next phase of
calls
ï‚· Scope
ï‚· Advanced functional topics, including your requests & suggestions
ï‚· Building on workshop coverage and project timeline
ï‚· May be informed by training videos and other doc, but not necessarily a direct review
of training sessions.
ï‚· Timing
ï‚· Day/time
ï‚· It may be an option to keep calls at 9-10:30a Pacific on Thursdays.
ï‚· Others may want another timeslot, depending on universities' fall staffing
schedules.
 Action item: respond to poll by end of week
ï‚· Content suggestions being reviewed (based on workshop feedback form)