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Weekly meetings with Ex Libris

Awareness of recurring meeting with Ex Libris: Mondays 1-2 (UC + Ex Libris project update meeting)

Coming soon: 2 hour office hours/special meetings

PMs meeting on Thursdays 4-5

  • Lena is doing a doodle poll to find the best 2-hour time slot this week. ICs will use their regular meeting on Thursday 6/18 2-3:30 for the first 2 hour meeting.

  • Meeting notes will be in Weekly Project Meetings folder on basecamp in Docs & Files

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Vanguard phase kickoff

Understand the Vanguard phase timeline and process

  • PM Marci Deignan (Deg-nan) presented a powerpoint on Alma/Primo VE kickoff

  • Meet the team:

    • Marci and team are part of Ex Libris Professional Services Americas (one of several global teams), reporting to Melissa Hilbert.

    • Marci reports to Adriana Pilecky-Dekajlo, she was a cataloger and started at Ex Libris with Endeavor

    • Le Tran - located in ?

    • Svetlana - started on Aleph, located in Toronto.

    • Laurie is located in Boston, with Ex Libris 8 years - focus on migration. Used to work for an academic library and campus IT department.

    • Ping Gao - 15 years at Ex Libris; started on Aleph, then support. Last year moved back into implementation. Located in Chicago.

    • Marina Spivakov - Project sponsor - oversee the project; liaison between project team and other teams - PM team and dev, migration and any other teams needed. Point for escalation. based in Toronto.

  • Audry Ho and Marci are working with Neil on what online training might look like instead of in-person training meetings.

  • Weekly training videos; live training reviews and Q&As - starting next week

  • Configuration form overview session to discussion details

  • Discovery setup with Primo VE forthcoming

  • 3rd party integrations - TBD extent of integration work to be done during vanguard phase (Sep/Oct)

  • Authentication - Wei will assist with this.

  • Testing - focusing on migrated data; report migration issues via Salesforce for tracking

  • Question on basecamp about the go live readiness checklist - it can be used during implementation to see what’s coming up as you go. No harm in using it during vanguard although it’s intended for final go live/cutover.

  • Thursdays 2 hour meeting with focus on Vanguard timeline and scope.

  • Communication will continue on Basecamp

  • For issues, contact Marci Deignan or SILS PMs.

  • Documentation, go to the Ex Libris Knowledge Center for project and product documentation.

  • Questions from ICs:

    • After vanguard test load - one IZ and sandbox for each vanguard institution, 1 NZ.

    • When does Ex Libris review the 3rd party integration forms with vanguard institutions? September, after test load is delivered.

    • Authentication and integrations for NZ? Will take that question offline.

  •  Marci: No UCs use 360 Link Resolver. Remove it from the slide deck before posting.
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