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Ex Libris is transforming library metadata management through an innovative artificial intelligence system designed to enhance bibliographic records in the Alma Community Zone.

Alma customers can now access and test the AI Metadata Assistant to aid library catalogers in their work and save them time. Available through the Alma November feature release, a preview of the AI tool is integrated into the Alma Metadata Editor and generates metadata suggestions helping catalogers in creating and enhancing bibliographic records.

Alma users are benefiting from new and enhanced capabilities in the November 2024 Feature Release. The release contains several significant items, across several key areas of library resource management, enabling staff to save more time, work more effectively, and boost productivity.

Leganto Marketing Kit was created to assist libraries around the world in promoting Leganto effectively to their faculty, staff, and academic communities. With this kit, you'll have everything you need to raise awareness, drive engagement, and educate stakeholders about Leganto.

“Attendance capture is one of the best engagement indicators.” Discover how St Mary’s University and the University of Plymouth leveraged campusM to transform their student engagement and improve academic outcomes.

Ex LibrisTM, part of Clarivate, is excited to present Leganto Student Savings Dashboard, available for Leganto institutions worldwide. The dashboard is designed to help librarians express the financial impact of their library to students and other stakeholders within the institutions.

The library at the National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, Taiwan's only vocational university focused on hospitality and tourism, implemented Alma and Primo library systems to enhance services. Despite its small size, the library successfully streamlined workflows and launched new services including a mobile library and book preview program.

Panelists in a November 7 webinar will showcase Ex Libris™ solutions that are utilizing AI to power trusted conversational search and discovery, and discuss how AI-based metadata suggestions improve operational efficiencies for library staff and resource discoverability. This includes AI for Primo, Alma, Specto, and content operations.

Four German university-independent art history research institutes across Europe have decided to implement the Alma library management system as well as the Primo discovery solution from Ex Libris.

“The university has an overarching aim of connecting globally, and Rapido helps us achieve that since we are able to source material from places more easily than we could before.” Read their migration story.

More than 60 library staff gathered in Manila for the second Philippines Ex Libris™ Day 2024 on September 26-27, reflecting Clarivate's strategic commitment to work closer with and bring together the growing Ex Libris™ community in the APAC region.

Ten Regional State Libraries of Bavaria subordinated to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) are now leveraging Alma and Primo after successfully navigating a complex implementation project.

Randolph College’s Lipscomb Library, with just 7 staff members, has gone live with the Alma and Primo unified library services platform. The system upgrade better facilitates access to information resources and addresses staff needs, replacing an aging system lacking functionality and development resources.

Ex Libris is pleased to announce that students can now add their student ID cards directly to Apple Wallet

The IGeLU 2024 conference brought together over 600 people from around the globe to share knowledge, celebrate achievements, and explore the future of library technology in the stunning city of Copenhagen.

Ex Libris™, part of Clarivate™, is excited to announce UC Davis as the first institution to go live with BIBFRAME (a linked open data cataloging ontology)