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Task Categories
Member's Guide
- Onboarding
- How OPAL Works
- Getting Things Done
- Joint Subscriptions
- Quick Reference: Cataloging Manual, Circulation Manual, User-Services Resources, Itypes list
- Subscribe to Mailing Lists and the OPAL Updates & Tips Blog
- Have an idea that will benefit the group? Submit a Project Idea
Statistics & Reports
- Circulation Activity Reports / Web Management Reports
- EBSCO Academic Ebook Collection Usage
- Proxy Server Usage
- Google Analytics - Search stats and user behavior reports for catalog, EDS, CONTENTdm
Contact OPAL Support for access - Current ACRL/IPEDS summary
- Archived ACRL/IPEDS summaries & other reports
Shared Library Systems
- Sierra Integrated Library System (ILS) - Catalog
- CONTENTdm - OPAL Digital Collections
- Springshare - Libguides, LibApps, LibWizard
- EBSCO - Discovery Service, Databases, Full Text Finder
- Weeding Helper
OPAL Digital Collections
- Shared CONTENTdm Digital Repository - Explore original photographs, documents, and more
- How to participate & create your instance
- All OPAL Digital Collections
Support
- Questions about EZproxy, electronic resources, Inventory, Patron Loads, Record Loading
- System status at-a-glance (Sierra & proxy servers)
- Innovative Interfaces Sierra platform, EBSCO, Springshare, OCLC products
- EDS workflows & suggestions, holdings management, custom links
- Checklists to add/remove content or subscriptions
- Update hours open/days closed for circulation function in Sierra
- Update the OPAL directory
- Send a large file (not just for patron loads)
- Emergency Contact: 614-352-9411
