Tweet This week is the annual meeting of ELUNA, the Ex Libris Users of North America. ELUNA is a great place to see the power of the Ex Libris community in action. Some highlights of this year’s ELUNA include the different ways Ex Libris solutions are further opening the library to the larger ecosystem. Extending Your Library with the Alma Open PlatformWed. 3:45pm, Schaumburg E-FLearn about the latest developments in Alma APIs and integrations from Josh Weisman. Linked […]
Tweet Adi Alter, Rosetta Product Manager, Ex Libris Many of you involved in digital preservation are familiar with JHOVE, the widely-used open source digital preservation tool used for digital files format identification, validation and characterization. Rosetta, the Ex Libris digital asset management and preservation solution, uses various tools and plug-ins to identify formats and extract technical metadata from them as part of its validation stack , and JHOVE plays a major role in this process. Metadata coming from JHOVE is […]
Tweet Yoel Kortick, Senior Librarian, Resource Management, Ex Libris As the world of knowledge becomes more complex, libraries need to connect with a wider ecosystem than ever before. The development of a new integration between Alma and OASIS promises to further streamline libraries’ connection with the environment. One of the hallmarks of Alma is its ability to easily integrate with other systems. While this is often done through the use of APIs, from the perspective […]
Tweet Scott Schuetze, Ex Libris One longstanding topic of great interest to librarians was explored in great detail across several sessions during the recent Electronic Resources and Libraries (ER&L) 2017 Conference in Austin, Texas. Several speakers focused their presentations on how analytics are being used to improve acquisitions workflows, serve researchers better, and measure the impact of e-resource use. The concept of leveraging analytics within the library isn’t new. The development of the ANSI/NISO standard […]
Tweet Tony Wai, Discovery Services & Systems Librarian at Macquarie University has been kind enough to allow us to publish his very creative submission for the Alma mobile competition. (Winners were announced last week.) For his submission, Tony wrote a personal letter to Alma Mobile: Dear Alma Mobile App, Welcome to the world! Uncle Macquarie has certainly had a lot of fun watching you grow over the last couple of months. I am sure Auntie Mines and Uncle […]
Tweet Scott Schuetze, Ex Libris Libraries around the world play an active role in driving the future of library services. Ex Libris leverages the power of its user community to accelerate innovation by promoting information sharing, encouraging feedback, soliciting ideas, and allocating resources for user-nominated features across its service offerings. This customer orientation has always been a focal point for Ex Libris, but over the past year it has gained greater exposure with the addition […]
Tweet Dani Guzman, Ex Libris Four of the items that caught our eye this month are about how the library of the future will operate based on some interesting trends we already see today. One thing that might not change so quickly – at least not at the academic world’s most venerated libraries – is the phenomenon called “Library Anxiety” and how librarians can help overcome it. (See our second-to-last item below.) No doubt anyone […]
Tweet Miri Botzer, Product Manager of Discovery and Delivery, Ex Libris Since rolling out the new Primo user interface a few months ago, we have seen nearly one hundred customers adopting it. Customers are increasingly switchingto the new UI to benefit from the fresh and intuitive design, one experience across all devices, and seamlessly embedded patron services. An additional benefit of the new UI comes from its flexible, extensible architecture, which we refer to as the […]
Tweet Thanks again to our amazing Ex Libris community for sending us your photos using Alma Mobile on the go! Due to the amazing quality of the submissions it was a very hard decision to make, but eventually, the team of referees made up their minds. Here it is! First Prize Rachelle Anne Orodio with Alma Mobile Rachelle Anne Orodio Application Administrator, Information Systems Department Monash University Library Second Prize Stephanie Shepro with Alma Mobile Stephanie Shepro […]
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