YBP-Alma Integration - GobiAPI

General information:

CSU campuses planning to implement the GobiAPI for YBP in Alma should begin working with their YBP reps asap since changing your current YBP services over to the Alma-GobiAPI process will take a few weeks. Your YBP reps will provide you with a complete list of data to provide and questions to answer before transferring your services, but here are a few things you can prepare:

• List of Alma fund codes
• List of Alma locations and libraries
• List of Alma reporting codes

and questions to answer: 

• Are you planning to receive Alma-compatible EDI invoices?
• Are you migrating open orders from Millennium/Sierra to Alma?
• What is your shut-down date for Sierra/Millennium?
• What is your go-live date for Alma?
• Do you plan to continue shelf-ready or other specific YBP services?

More detailed questions related to YBP tech specs and data mapping will be presented to you once you begin the YBP-to-Alma conversation.  

Even if your library does not plan to implement the GobiAPI right away, you need to be talking to your reps to transfer any services you have with them to Alma, so don't wait - send them an email and ask what they need from you.

The CSU SDLC is offering to manage the GobiAPI subscription centrally on a per-campus annual opt-in basis; if subscribing directly with YBP, they are offering the CSUs a group discount of 15% on the GobiAPI subscription through June 2017. Contact Terri Joiner at the SDLC, your YBP sales rep, or one of the Acquisitions Task Force members for pricing specifics. (The SDLC opt-in price is the same discounted price quoted by YBP if subscribing by 6/30/2017, so it seems best to go via SDLC.)

Campuses planning to use the GobiAPI so far:

• Los Angeles
• Northridge
• San Francisco
• San Jose
• Sonoma
• Pomona

Let Carole Correa-Morris (SJSU) know if you would like to add your campus to this list of GobiAPI adopters.