The Primo Open Discovery Challenge: Announcing the Winners!

Tweet Last week at the IGeLU conference, which took place in beautiful Saint Petersburg, we announced the winners of the Primo Open Discovery Challenge. Thank you again to all the Primo customers who shared their Primo customization projects with the entire Primo community! Without further ado… here are the Winners! First prize: Lewis & Clark College Project: Primo Custom Actions Project lead: Nick Budak GitHub link: https://github.com/Alliance-PCJWG/primo-explore-custom-actions Library discovery interface: https://primo.lclark.edu/primo-explore/search?vid=LCC&lang=en_US&sortby=rank Custom links can be […]

A Deeper Look at Developing with campusM

Tweet By Payton Pietron, University of Montana In this blog post, Payton further describes her experience as a student developer of the UMontana app built with campusM. Payton Pietron was a significant team member involved in the success of the UMontana app launch and has recently joined the Ex Libris campusM team as a Solutions Architect.  This post can also be found on the campusM blog. As I have noted in a previous post, while enrolled at the University […]

Predavanje prof. dr. sc. Gillian Hallam s Tehnološkoga sveučilišta Queensland o informacijskoj i digitalnoj pismenosti

Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu i Komisija za obrazovanje i stalno stručno usavršavanje Hrvatskoga knjižničarskog društva organizirali su predavanje prof. dr. sc. Gillian Hallam s Tehnološkoga sveučilišta Queensland u Brisbanu u Australiji pod naslovom Je li digitalna disrupcija nova stvarnost? Izgradnja uspješne budućnosti na temeljima informacijske i digitalne pismenosti. Predavanje se održalo u srijedu, 13. rujna 2017. godine u 11 sati u seminarskoj dvorani na polukatu NSK. Predavanju je nazočilo 30-ak sudionika.     […]

Celebrating 1,000 Alma Institutions Worldwide!

Tweet In only 5 years, we have reached 1,000 institutions using Alma. We are proud that Alma is the fastest growing library services platform in the world, but even prouder of our active and involved Alma community. The contribution of the Alma community to Alma’s success is staggering: the Alma Product Working Group, the events and workshops around the world, the great ideas that Alma users suggest on a daily basis, and the open communication […]

The Library’s Buzz — September 2017

Tweet Dani Guzman, Ex Libris We hope you enjoyed your summer break (if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway). Now, with the start of the academic year, is the time to look at what academic libraries have to offer today. This includes examining how they might improve their services and overall visitor experience. A few insightful, forward-looking articles published recently address how current rapid digital developments can, and should, be leveraged for academic research and […]