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The Ex Libris Demo Center has been updated and refreshed with a variety of new and engaging videos.

"With Alma and Primo VE, we're not just upgrading our systems—we're revolutionizing how our community engages with knowledge."

The University of Tasmania, long committed to providing seamless access to academic resources for its students and staff, implemented Alma and Primo transforming library operations and enhancing user experiences.

Ex Libris, part of Clarivate, announces the launch of Rapido Consortial Borrowing in 2026. This resource sharing platform was created to ensure equitable access to knowledge while respecting the unique workflows of each library within a system. It directly addresses the growing tension between tightening library budgets and expanding community needs.

Summon Research Assistant is a new AI-enhanced discovery tool that saves researchers time by summarizing the query response and citing the most relevant resources. Users will benefit from detailed, natural language search capabilities to uncover trusted library materials.

The program showcased how libraries can use Mixpanel to gain deeper insights from their discovery environment, track user interactions, and make data-driven decisions to enhance the search experience. As we move forward, Mixpanel will now be available for customers onboarding with the NDE UI.

The community-driven roadmap is updated semi-annually with ongoing innovation that delivers a blend of new features and enhanced functionality, helping library staff to manage resources more efficiently and effectively.

The unified solution will enable the library to consolidate their print, electronic and digitized collections, making them all easily discoverable through a single interface.

The Ex Libris Statistics Portal provides a high-level overview that highlights the importance of continuous monitoring and provides the foundation for deeper understanding and analysis.

Five prestigious private university libraries in Germany have selected Alma and Primo as their new library management and discovery solutions.

The redesign of Alma's Purchase Order Lines Management interface has significantly improved user experience and productivity, while being well-received by the user community.

Clarivate announced a new subscription-based access strategy for academia, including changes to the Rialto marketplace to better serve academic libraries. We're expanding Rialto to support informed fulfilment, empowering libraries to make better decisions, support students, and ensure timely, cost-effective access to resources.

Digital collections are windows into our communities’ heritage, but connecting these stories with users isn’t always easy. Ex Libris introduces AI for digital collections with Alma Specto and allows libraries to share their collections with the right audience.

The Library will implement Alma and Primo to build a modern, unified library system, streamlining the existing infrastructure of multiple library systems and data formats

Leading the February feature release is the phase 1 availability of the AI Metadata Assistant for the Alma Metadata Editor.

Ex Libris™ is pleased to announce that Alma has seen significant growth in Latin America, with 14 new institutions choosing the platform in 2024. This expansion brings the total number of institutions using the cloud-based library management system in the region to nearly 60.