5 Ways to Use Your Campus App to Ease the Transition Back to Campus

Hadas Tayeb, Product Marketing Manager, campusM, Ex Libris Do students want to return to campus? The answer is yes, no, and maybe. A recent Student Voice survey conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse reveals contradicting attitudes towards synchronous learning from students that are already back on campus in a full- or part-time capacity. […] The post 5 Ways to Use Your Campus App to Ease the Transition Back to Campus appeared first on […]

Trends in Physical and Electronic Resource Usage in U.S. Academic Libraries

This article originally appeared in journal Technicalities, Vol. 41 Num. 2 March / April 2021. Yoel Kortick, Senior Librarian, Ex Libris Over the past few decades libraries have moved from collections of books and other print media to complex collections of print and electronic resources. By looking at historical trends it is possible to conjecture […] The post Trends in Physical and Electronic Resource Usage in U.S. Academic Libraries appeared first on Ex Libris. […]

It’s All About Data Transparency: An Introduction to Ex Libris’ New Status Page

Roni Shandalov, Corporate and Digital Marketing Manager, Ex Libris Back in 2014, Ex Libris decided to release and promote a status page, to provide customers with service availability and performance insights for all Ex Libris SaaS products. The status page has always been a public page, which means it was open for both registered customers […] The post It’s All About Data Transparency: An Introduction to Ex Libris’ New Status Page appeared first on Ex […]

2021 ELUNA Annual Meeting together with Ex Libris Knowledge Days

Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA) was formed in 2005, replacing the previous Ex Libris user groups NAAUG and SMUG. Going forward from this date, annual in-person meetings were held in various locations across North America. In 2020, for the first time, due to COVID-19, ELUNA had to change the in-person meeting to an […] The post 2021 ELUNA Annual Meeting together with Ex Libris Knowledge Days appeared first on Ex Libris. Source: […]

The Data Doesn’t Lie: Aussies Love Leganto

Australians are known to be early adopters, and we’ve found that Australian libraries and academics are no exception. The first countries to adopt the Ex Libris Leganto resource list management system were Australia and the United Kingdom. There were several early adopters among Australian universities, and UNSW—a member of the Go8—was also a Leganto development […] The post The Data Doesn’t Lie: Aussies Love Leganto appeared first on Ex Libris. Source: buki rss

[Guest Post] The ANZREG Alma Cloud Apps Hackathon

Peta Hopkins, Manager, Digital Library Services, Bond University The Australia New Zealand Regional Ex Libris Group (ANZREG) sponsored an Alma Cloud Apps Hackathon during March 2021. Our goals were collaboration, learning and solving problems. ANZREG usually holds a Developers’ Day each year, but the pandemic cancelled our 2020 plans for that. As a result the […] The post [Guest Post] The ANZREG Alma Cloud Apps Hackathon appeared first on Ex Libris. Source: buki rss

Choose Your Words Carefully: How Research Funding Search Changed Over Time

Hundreds of thousands of searches for research funding opportunities are conducted within Pivot-RP each year and it is always interesting to see what scholars are searching for. In a blog post from 2019 we revealed the terms most often used in funding searches during an 18-month period. Using the same approach, we expanded our review […] The post Choose Your Words Carefully: How Research Funding Search Changed Over Time appeared first on Ex Libris. […]

National Library Week: Recognizing Libraries as a Reliable and Resilient Force

Barbara Rad-El, Senior Librarian, Ex Libris In the best of times and in the most trying of times – as the world recently experienced – libraries have consistently served as a gateway to information, education and community. Throughout the global pandemic, libraries have remained a reliable, resilient force, connecting patrons of all ages to affordable […] The post National Library Week: Recognizing Libraries as a Reliable and Resilient Force appeared first on Ex Libris. […]

New report: Covid-19 Research Funding Trends

Sarah Richardson, Group Editor, Research Professional News The huge research and development effort involved in fighting Covid-19 has outstripped the response to any infectious disease outbreak in history. By October last year, funding commitments globally had topped $9.2 billion—more than quadruple the amount put towards R&D funding for Ebola between 2014-18. While large parts of […] The post New report: Covid-19 Research Funding Trends appeared first on Ex Libris. Source: buki rss

Centralizing, Optimizing and Cutting Costs

Barbara Rad-El, Senior Librarian, Ex Libris Academic libraries are currently facing shrinking budgets, while at the same time finding themselves having to support inefficient existing programs or novel costs. This conundrum, which we have called “the third rail” of modern academia, is another one of the challenges with an especially significant impact on small and […] The post Centralizing, Optimizing and Cutting Costs appeared first on Ex Libris. Source: buki rss