As a member of the OhioLINK academic library consortium, CIA's Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library will be upgrading its library systems to Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE in the summer of 2025.
Important Dates:
May 23, 2025: ALL borrowing from OhioLINK and SearchOhio will be temporarily turned off. The library will also NOT be fulfilling ILL requests.
May 26, 2025: Library circulation (checking in & out items) will be paused for several weeks. Circulation is expected to resume by mid-June.
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As a member of the OhioLINK library consortium, the Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library is pleased to announce that we will be upgrading our library system software to Ex Libris Alma and Primo VE, going live in June 2025. Alma/Primo VE is state of the art systems software, and the most-used library system in U.S. academic libraries.
This cloud-based, enterprise system software is the backbone of day-to-day library operations (acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, etc.), and generates the underlying data that drives library business decisions and reporting. The new system will provide user benefits to help students, faculty, and other library users find (and access) information critical to their learning, teaching, and research. Its user-friendly interactions will be more intuitive and similar to today’s consumer products. Primo VE, the new user interface replacing EBSCO Discovery Service (aka EDS or Quick Search), will streamline search functions and your access to local resources and scholarly research. It will offer new and improved features and benefits for our library users:
The library staff has been working on this migration for the past two years and will continue to work very hard to minimize any disruption to services. However, there will be disruptions, and we will attempt to communicate those with you in a variety of places. I highly recommend that you subscribe to the library's blog for updates about this project. You can easily read only the relevant blog posts by clicking the "Library Migration" link in the subjects list.
The cutover to the new system will impact acquisitions and requests for purchases, borrowing of print materials from OhioLINK, SearchOhio, and our local collection beginning May 23, 2025.
While we are unable to provide an exact date, we hope to resume circulation by mid-June. If you are enrolled in or teaching a summer class, we will work with you to ensure you have access to all library materials necessary for your course. If you are not enrolled in the summer semester, you will be able to check things out once we go-live in the new system and have ensured that everything is working properly.
Please see our FAQs page for more information on those impacts.
Training will be available to help you through the transition. Subscribe to the blog and watch both the library's website and CIA Weekly for more information. If you have questions, please contact the library.
The library staff is very excited about this migration, and we think you’ll be pleased with this upgrade.
CIA Gund Library BFA Week (May 5-11) Hours:
The library will be closed on Monday, May 26, 2025, in observance of Memorial Day.
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