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Activity | Notes |
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Maintain the centralized contracts & provide financial management services. | Page 1+ Consortium - OCLS Service Proposal - Centralized Contract & Financial Management |
Provide centralized coordination of resource sharing activities. | A handful of configurations must be distributed from the network zone to enable resource sharing with the peer-to-peer model in Alma. These include The identification of Partner Libraries, Sending Borrowing Request Rules, Locate Profiles, and Determining Rota. More details can be found in the ExL Knowledgebase: managing partner library profiles and parameters, and configuring fulfillment information in the Network Zone |
Support and maintain distributed configurations within the Alma Network Zone in support of participating Page1+ libraries. | For example, distribute letter/notice templates, role profiles and assignments |
Support and maintain configurations of Alma Institution Zones and IZ Primo VE instances on behalf of individual colleges. | Some colleges may not have the staff capacity or expertise to make configuration changes in their IZ or Primo VE instance. OCLS, by request, can make those changes on behalf of the college. |
Support Page 1+ consortial analytics activities including providing NZ and IZ specific support. | It is possible to create reports containing information from the Network Zone and to share reports created in the Network Zone. OCLS can be responsible for configuring analytics for the network zone, identify existing reports in the Alma Analytics Community Folder that can be used by Page 1+ libraries, create and maintain shared reports as needed, or assist individual colleges in the creation of reports for their own purposes. |
Coordinate, support, and facilitate committees, working groups and Communities of Practice (COPs) | Act as strategic resource in support of consortial decision-making and planning Prepare meeting agendas, minutes, reminders of action items Provide communication expertise and share knowledge |
Review product updates, perform testing in sandbox, coordinate testing with colleges, report to and roll out to participating colleges | |
Maintain a help desk for support and consultation | |
Oversee and manage the Page 1+ Alma Sandbox | |
Oversee and manage the LIT program Alma Sandbox | |
Maintain a custom package branding template that colleges can use in Primo VE |
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