New Library System 2025

As of July 2025, we have officially migrated to our new system, Alma/Primo!

This is a major system update, and the majority of our underlying infrastructure has changed. Primary changes you will notice:

•  Many things look different
  • This system has a new interface, and we have customized it to show the Thomas Library logo. 
  • Email alerts from Thomas Library look different
  • We now have a single form for requesting ILL items 
• OhioLINK search is integrated into the same search interface
  • Instead of going to a separate OhioLINK catalog to search, you can choose it from the dropdown.
  • At the moment, OhioLINK results are not included in the default search, you will need to select OhioLINK from the dropdown once you've done a search.
  • Tutorial: How to search ohiolink
• Off-campus access
  • You no longer need your library barcode to access library items from off-campus. Instead, you will login with your Witt credentials and authenticator app.

We will be continuing to make minor changes and updates throughout the next year, and adding new features as they become available, but if you see something that needs our attention, or if you need assistance with any aspect of using the system, please email librarians@wittenberg.edu

Check your bookmarks and URLs

If you have any links to library resources, such as books or e-books, in Moodle or your course material, you will need to update those links. Links to items in our old catalog will start with "https://cat.opal-libraries.org/search~S30?/..." and these links will stop working sometime in September.

  URLs for the new catalog start with "https://ohiolink-wittenberg.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink......"

Links to electronic articles will have different URLs depending on which database is used to access the article; most of these will not have changed.

If you need assistance in obtaining the correct links, please email us at librarians@wittenberg.edu

Your Library Account

The new URL for logging into your library account is: 

https://ohiolink-wittenberg.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/account?vid=01OHIOLINK_WITTENBERG:WITTENBERG&section=overview&lang=en

When possible, please use the link to library resources in Moodle rather than downloading a copy and uploading it. This helps us keep usage statistics on materials being accessed.

We realize not all databases make this easy; if you have any questions or need a hand finding the permalink, please email librarians@wittenberg.edu

For resources found in our catalog, you can first click on "permalink"  then copy the URL.

We are still working on the details of the notices you receive from us, so thank you for your patience. 

This is an example of a notice you might receive. Notices from Thomas Library will now come from the Wittenberg email "circadmin" 

Our old system (the catalog said OPAL on the top left) is still accessible until early September, but everything there is out of date. So you can technically still log in to your account there, but it will not reflect your current checkouts. We are working through updating all of our guides and websites to fix links, so thank you for your patience!

OhioLINK items currently do not appear in the default search results. To search OhioLINK items, change the settings from "Thomas Library articles, books and more" to "OhioLINK"

How do I do this?