Enhanced Course Lists for Student Success
A robust, integrated solution for creating, maintaining and sharing interactive course resource lists, Leganto optimizes the use of library collections, reduces the administrative burden on faculty, and makes higher education a lot more affordable.
Leganto
Making course resource lists a two-way street
Leganto’s structured course resource lists are interactive and provide easy access to all materials in an environment familiar to both students and faculty.
- Instructors can engage students by enriching resource lists with tags, notes and due dates
- Students can share feedback and suggest additional content for any resource list
- Barriers such as broken links and paywalls are eliminated
Quality course materials are a click away
With Leganto, incorporating high-quality low- or no-cost materials in course resource lists is easy, fast and secure, providing flexibility in course content and helping keep down costs.
- Multiple open access and OER collections (e.g., Open SUNY, OpenStax, Open Textbook
Library) are fully discoverable - Searches are easily filtered for OER and open access resources
- Leganto automatically suggests relevant OER material
Engage students and staff - wherever they are
An intuitive, cloud-based user interface, available on any device, is seamlessly integrated into the learning management system.
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- A rich set of APIs enable remote interaction with institutional and third-party systems,
mobile apps, citation tools, and more - Librarians manage course materials and administer Leganto with integrated Alma workflows
- Easily scaled up to support as many courses as needed
Schools and students save money with Leganto
Leganto maximizes the value and use of library collections and collaborations, reducing the cost of course materials and increasing student affordability.
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- Librarians can promote selected resources
- Leganto automatically embeds direct links to free library-owned items
- Leganto drives the use of pay-per-use models and open educational resources
- Students can easily access valuable librarian expertise and services
Actionable insights to improve course materials
Powerful analytics reveal true student engagement with course resources, giving instructors, librarians and administrators insight into what is working, what is missing, and what is needed.
- Leganto monitors in real time how course resources are used
- Analytics indicate which resources are being used as expected and which are not
- Custom reports show the library’s institutional value, budgetary needs and constraints
Reducing the administrative burden
Leganto is a one-stop shop, with automated management and provisioning workflows that increase productivity, save time and enhance the library’s role.
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- Faculty can easily add resources directly from any source, edit the list, and roll it over to the
following term - Automated Alma-based workflows make it easy to scale up for additional courses
- Integrated copyright clearance with automated licensing ensures compliance
Leganto
Making course resource lists a two-way street
Leganto’s structured course resource lists are interactive and provide easy access to all materials in an environment familiar to both students and faculty.
Expand >
- Instructors can engage students by enriching resource lists with tags, notes and due dates
- Students can share feedback and suggest additional content for any resource list
- Barriers such as broken links and paywalls are eliminated
Quality course materials are a click away
With Leganto, incorporating high-quality low- or no-cost materials in course resource lists is easy, fast and secure, providing flexibility in course content and helping keep down costs.
Expand >
- Multiple open access and OER collections (e.g., Open SUNY, OpenStax, Open Textbook
Library) are fully discoverable - Searches are easily filtered for OER and open access resources
- Leganto automatically suggests relevant OER material
Engage students and staff - wherever they are
An intuitive, cloud-based user interface, available on any device, is seamlessly integrated into the learning management system.
Expand >
- A rich set of APIs enable remote interaction with institutional and third-party systems,
mobile apps, citation tools, and more - Librarians manage course materials and administer Leganto with integrated Alma workflows
- Easily scaled up to support as many courses as needed
Schools and students save money with Leganto
Leganto maximizes the value and use of library collections and collaborations, reducing the cost of course materials and increasing student affordability.
Expand >
- Librarians can promote selected resources
- Leganto automatically embeds direct links to free library-owned items
- Leganto drives the use of pay-per-use models and open educational resources
- Students can easily access valuable librarian expertise and services
Actionable insights to improve course materials
Powerful analytics reveal true student engagement with course resources, giving instructors, librarians and administrators insight into what is working, what is missing, and what is needed.
Expand >
- Leganto monitors in real time how course resources are used
- Analytics indicate which resources are being used as expected and which are not
- Custom reports show the library’s institutional value, budgetary needs and constraints
Reducing the administrative burden
Leganto is a one-stop shop, with automated management and provisioning workflows that increase productivity, save time and enhance the library’s role.
Expand >
- Faculty can easily add resources directly from any source, edit the list, and roll it over to the
following term - Automated Alma-based workflows make it easy to scale up for additional courses
- Integrated copyright clearance with automated licensing ensures compliance
Our customer stories
"In the last three years, we’ve seen growth of 40% of faculty members using Leganto."
The Library Team Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
"The adoption of Ex Libris Leganto... has led to significant improvements in workflows and streamlined access to the university library resources."
Silvia Trevenzoli University of Verona
"[Leganto] puts us in a position to be at the very forefront of course creation"
Erin Beach Northeastern University
“…we needed an enterprise system to support our course materials with a consistent process … Leganto had exactly what we needed.”
Director of Library Enterprise Systems Research University
“As soon as we implemented Leganto, we began using it to manage informed purchases of materials for teaching, with our integrated, cross-team workflow seamlessly handling requests.”
Angela Laurins, Library Learning Services Manager The University of Edinburgh
“After the curation is over, the output lives on.…The lists and resources are used after the fact in all kinds of ways, so the students leave a lasting legacy.”
Catherine Stephen University of Surrey
"During the first term with Leganto, almost 47,000 students were accessing reading lists in nearly 1,000 courses."
University of Sydney
“Find out why an academic library at a specialist college transformed its services and operations through Alma, Primo and Leganto."
Laura Pilsel Harper Adams University
Supporting the Imperial College Library Mission with Ex Libris Higher-Ed Cloud Solutions
Katherine Rose, Katharine Thompson, James Garry Imperial College, London
The Leganto-Rialto workflow: The key to streamlining the purchase of course materials
Angela Laurins and Elize Rowan The University of Edinburgh
Promoting Student Affordability with Leganto
Kelly Ann Sam Reserves Coordinator, California State University San Marcos
The Leganto Solution as a Facilitator in Cross Team Collaboration
Sarah Bateup & Moraig Vuurman Faculty Librarian, Technology Enhanced Learning Designer, Bond University
Efficiently delivering course resources and managing copyright licensing
Margaret Ann Trotter Vanderbilt University
Increasing OER use and lowering student costs
Rosemary Arneson University of Mary Washington
Partnering with academics and educational developers
Alison Neil University of New South Wales
Demonstrating and Deepening the Library's Value with Ex Libris Higher-Ed Solutions
Helen Woolfries Kingston University London
A Faculty Perspective of Leganto – Making Course Resource Lists Easy
Sara Branch Formerly an Associate Professor of Psychology
Greater control over copyright and improved service to faculty
Susan Lafferty Australian Catholic University
Supporting teaching strategy and improving learning affordability
Pascal Calarco, University Librarian University of Windsor
Leganto at the University of Edinburgh: Improving Library Productivity and Student Experience
Angela Laurins & Sarah Ames University of Edinburgh
“Because of the streamlined back-office processes, we're able to reinvest staff time in more front-facing, student-focused activities.”
Richard Milne Robert Gordon University
An Instructor's Perspective of Leganto: Improving Teaching & Learning Effectiveness
Dr. Siobhan MacAndrew Psychology lecturer, Abertay University
“We have a vision for how the library can help the university, and Leganto has facilitated our ability to provide that help.”
Greg Argo Associate Director for Access & Digital Services, University of St. Thomas
“Leganto makes library resources more visible and showcases the library for the entire institution.”
Asbjørn Risan BIBSYS Consortium
“Having Leganto is bringing the focus back to what the library really is, which is delivering resources and providing service.”
Jean McGuinness Library Services Team Leader, Abertay University
"With Leganto it's a Year-Long Dialogue with the Academics"
Sinéad McGhee Academic Librarian, Abertay University
Leganto at Washington State University: Impacting Learning Affordability
Blake Galbreath Core Services Librarian, Washington State University
Leganto at University of New South Wales: Creating a Community around Course Reading Lists
Cath Ellis Associate Dean of Education Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of New South Wales
Our team of experts looks forward to hearing from you
Increase student engagement
The library is perfectly poised to help tackle student disengagement.
Libraries sit at the intersection of teaching, learning and student life. By serving as the connector between students and the services that help them thrive, libraries can actively engage students and help get them over the graduation finish line.
Read our White Paper, The Academic Library’s Student Reengagement Playbook, to get conversation starters with university stakeholders, a four-step plan for reengaging students through the library and an example of how this plan could work for your university!
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Streamlining Your Library’s Leganto Workflows
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Digitization and copyright
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Optimizing the New Leganto User Interface
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Ordering and Invoicing Print Serials
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Getting the Most out of Leganto Analytics
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Receiving Issues
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Increasing Adoption and Engagement with your Leganto Service
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Claiming and Renewing Print Serials and Managing Changes
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Our revolutionary cloud services deliver exceptional reliability and the highest levels of security and data privacy across all institutional data, systems and processes.
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We continuously grow and innovate our content services to support discovery and provide easy access to relevant information, optimizing every aspect of the research and learning experience.
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Our best-in-class professional services provided by our global teams ensure on-time and on-budget project implementation and we are with you very step of the way with on-going advice, training, and support.
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We are committed to ensuring a high level of satisfaction among our customers. Our dedicated support services team attends to your specific configurations and needs on time, every time.
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List management refers to the process of managing reading lists or course reserves within academic libraries. Leganto is a system developed by Ex Libris, specifically designed for this purpose. Its functions include list creation, list organization, and collaboration, integration with library systems, accessibility and compliance, and analytics and data usage.
A list management system like Leganto, which is also an overall course resource management system, streamlines the process of providing access to relevant resources for academic courses, enhances collaboration, and ensures compliance with copyright and accessibility requirements.
Leganto drives teaching excellence and student success. Instructors save time and effort, and help their students succeed in their courses by easily assembling course resources of all types into a structured, annotated resource list that is embedded in the list management system. Faculty can then monitor student engagement and decide to reuse and modify the list term over term.
Instructors can engage students from within the course resource list and students access course materials through the list management system in a consistent way across all their courses. Leganto also provides library-generated links to on-campus assets and online resources, eliminating paywalls and broken links, and providing clear availability information about physical materials. This lowers costs and increases student affordability.
Leganto promotes the library as a teaching and learning partner. It enables the library to work collaboratively with teaching staff to assemble and organize quality course materials at low- or no-cost for students. Using Leganto as a course resource management system, the library is automatically informed about teaching needs, has streamlined workflows for addressing these needs, and can measure and report the library contribution to teaching and learning.
Yes. First of all, as a solution on the Ex Libris Higher Ed Platform, Leganto is tightly integrated with Alma, Primo and Rialto. Secondly, like all Ex Libris products, Leganto list management system offers a rich set of APIs for seamless integration with institutional and third-party systems. Leganto meets faculty and students where they are, by embedding relevant library resources and services directly into the learning management system.
Leganto was initially developed with several customer partners and the Ex Libris team continues to work closely with customers as the product evolves. Collaboration takes place through established channels such as the PWG, NERS and Idea Exchange, as well as through focus group and ad hoc discussions. Input from the community is a key driver of Leganto development.
Leganto lives on the Ex Libris Higher Ed Platform, where it enjoys all the data security and privacy measures of the Alma environment. For example, unique content is protected by the Amazon S3 cloud storage service, file integrity is continually verified, and any checksum discrepancies are automatically corrected. These safeguards are integral to Alma, relieving the library of all set-up and maintenance worries.
Absolutely not! Leganto includes an easy-to-use, intuitive end-user interface for instructors and students, which is seamlessly embedded in their institution’s learning management system. Librarians manage course materials easily through the course resource management system, and administer Leganto through Alma, the system that they use every day.
Certainly. Leganto allows faculty to easily incorporate OER into their course resource lists. The Ex Libris Central Discovery Index includes multiple open access and OER collections – such as Open SUNY, OpenStax, and Open Textbook Library – which are fully discoverable in Leganto. Leganto automatically scans these OER collections and suggests relevant resources for instructors to include in their course resource lists.
Leganto as a course resource management system helps save money on course materials by offering streamlined access to resources available within the library’s collection or freely available as open access resources.
