May 2023
Ex Libris and Innovative Users Groups Host Successful Conferences
User groups for Ex Libris and Innovative hosted their annual North American conferences earlier this month; the Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA) gathered in Los Angeles, California, while the Innovative Users Group (IUG) met in Phoenix, Arizona.
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May 2023
[Webinar] A Unified Approach to Fulfill a Library’s Strategic Plan
In this session you’ll gain insight from the dean of the library at Florida Gulf Coast University about the it’s vision, while also hearing from frontline staff discuss what resonates with them the most and what services are delivering most impact. The webinar will focus on technology approaches, implementation of new services, workflow efficiencies, and individual contributions that are helping execute the library’s strategic plan
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May 2023
Can new technologies reduce bias? A webinar discussion on innovation
Last month, Ex Libris and Innovative, both part of Clarivate, hosted professor and author Orly Lobel for an engaging conversation on new innovations in technology. Lobel advocates for a pragmatic approach to new technologies. She challenges us to explore how organizations and individuals can effectively harness these technologies to foster equality and create a better future.
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May 2023
The University of Wyoming Selects the Ex Libris Higher Education Platform for Multiple Library Services
UW, a leading public research university in the United States, recently chose the Ex Libris Higher Education platform for its cloud-based library solutions of the Alma library management system, Primo discovery, Library Mobile app, and Leganto for course resources.
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May 2023
UCL Enhances Student Experience with Revamped App ‘UCL Go’
In a move to enhance the student digital experience, University College London (UCL) recently revamped its mobile campusM app. One of campusM's earliest adopters in 2012, in 2022 UCL reevaluated and repositioned the app to better serve its student body.
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May 2023
100 libraries simplify the discovery of external collections
Ex Libris, part of Clarivate, is excited to celebrate that the resource sharing solution Rapido has welcomed 100 member institutions, after only a year on the market. Libraries worldwide use Rapido to help students more easily access other libraries' collections.
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May 2023
What role does the library play in adopting and furthering DEI initiatives?
The adoption of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles is becoming widespread in academic institutions globally. Among these institutions, libraries are at the forefront of practical exploration and action on this issue.
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May 2023
Three Liberal Arts Colleges in Maine Select Alma and Primo for a Shared Library Services Platform
Ex Libris, part of Clarivate, is pleased to announce that three prestigious liberal arts colleges in Maine – Bates, Bowdoin and Colby Colleges – selected Ex Libris Alma and Primo to improve their library services, and provide a better user experience for students, faculty, and staff. The colleges will go live on their new system this summer.
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May 2023
Discover Top Tech Trends to Attract and Fulfill User Expectations
Academic libraries serve as a crucial resource for connecting users with the content necessary for their studies and work. However, user expectations are often shaped by the convenience and ease they experience with consumer platforms or newly emerging AI tools like ChatGPT. Join us for an online discussion live hear from peers about new approaches, technologies, and methods that links the institutions’ education mission and users’ expectations for convenience.
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May 2023
Over 700 participants Come Together for Knowledge Days, Developers Day+, and the ELUNA 2023 Annual Meeting
This week, over 700 participants are coming together at the Westin Bonaventure hotel in Los Angeles, California for three coordinated events: Knowledge Days hosted by Ex Libris, and Developers Day+ and the ELUNA 2023 annual conference hosted by the Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA). Over the course of five days, the combined events offer nearly 200 sessions led by library professionals and Ex Libris staff.
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April 2023
Liverpool University empowers students with a wider world of resources
Ex Libris, part of Clarivate, is delighted to announce that the University of Liverpool has integrated Rapido, its new intuitive borrowing solution designed for modern library experiences.
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April 2023
Elevate your library’s role across campus
Today’s academic librarians are stepping beyond internal reports on service and resource usage and demonstrating the library’s role in research, teaching and learning. Discover how simple to implement services can support your library to streamline processes, improve transparency and deliver insights about the library’s pivotal role on campus.
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April 2023
Upcoming InCites and Alma integration enhances collection development reporting
Combining bibliometric data with collection data to better inform collection development can be challenging. The new integration between Alma and InCites Benchmarking & Analytics enables mutual customers of both services to conduct multi-faceted collection development and utilization analyses with little effort or manual start-up.
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April 2023
Huddersfield U takes its ILL turnaround time from 2-5 days to 9 hours
Always on the lookout for ways to improve their services, Huddersfield University has recently integrated RapidILL into its suite of solutions to automate its interlibrary-loan request processing. In 6 months only, the University has seen its average turnaround time drop from 2-5 days to 9 hours.
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April 2023
Why I Like ELUNA
Guest post by Bill Slauenwhite, Manager, Novanet – A Consortium of Libraries At the core of any ELUNA conference are the sessions by Ex Libris product users tackling, solving, and sharing real-world solutions for real-world problems. The sharing of ideas and solutions is what makes ELUNA valuable, and I have always returned from the conference with several new ideas to implement that have already been stress-tested and refined at another Ex Libris site.
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April 2023
Insights and Highlights about the Ex Libris Knowledge Days at ELUNA 2023
The Ex Libris Knowledge Days is always a highly anticipated event preceding the ELUNA Annual Meeting. Are you planning to attend the Ex Libris Knowledge Days at ELUNA 2023? If so, you are in for an exciting and informative experience! This event is a must-attend for anyone interested in learning more about Ex Libris products and solutions, as well as networking with other professionals in the field.
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March 2023
Virtual Customer Panel presented by Library Journal
Power Extraordinary User Experiences with Integrated Online Academic Library Services Academic library users expect the online experience and interactions with the library ecosystem to be easy, fast and personalized. Meet and hear from peers who are empowering their users by building rich, integrated online ecosystems that streamline the user journey and simplify library workflows.
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March 2023
Linda Hall Library partners with Rapido to make +1M research titles available
“In an average year, we receive over 39,000 document delivery and interlibrary loan requests with an average fill-rate of over 70%. While we have been very successful in providing access to researchers all over the world, Rapido offers the opportunity to broaden our reach to a new audience and improve services.” Jane Davis, Linda Hall Library
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March 2023
Establish the library as a partner for student success- in English & Spanish!
Wouldn’t it be great if students could access all their course materials, resources available from the library, and any other resources of any type through the course page in their learning management system? Now they can, with Leganto. Leganto enables faculty members and library staff to collect physical, electronic, and digital resources from across the university, library, and web in one resource list.
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March 2023
Inspirational webinar – Orly Lobel to present on how technology can ensure a better world
Join us April 27, 2023, at 8 a.m. PDT for an insightful webinar hosted by University of San Diego Warren Distinguished Professor of Law Orly Lobel as she explores the potential of promoting diversity and inclusion through design.
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March 2023
ELUNA 2023 Annual Meeting
We are very excited about the 2023 ELUNA events coming up this May 8-12. The conference will bring librarians and technology professionals together with a wide range of Ex Libris staff. It will offer a platform for participants to share best practices, and to learn about the latest developments in Ex Libris products and services.
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March 2023
USF is personalizing the digital experience with campusM
The University of San Francisco (USF) implemented campusM in June 2022. In addition to utilizing the app’s out-of-the-box features to give students visibility into their daily tasks and schedule, USF has leveraged the app’s developer tools to improve accessibility across campus and to streamline the delivery of real-time information.
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March 2023
Transparent borrowing journey for students at the University of Derby
The University of Derby takes a new step towards modernizing the resource-sharing experience at the library. Students have now access to a world of resources at their fingertips with Rapido. “Rapido has truly helped make the discovery and attainment of resources easier and more transparent for our students.”
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February 2023
Riga Stradiņš University uses campusM to meet mobile expectations
The campusM student engagement platform has helped RSU to: Meet student mobile expectations, customize with ease, incorporate the student voice into their digital strategy and delegate access to allow students and staff to manage different parts of the app.
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February 2023
University of Delaware Selects Ex Libris Unified Suite of Services
Ex Libris, part of Clarivate plc (NYSE:CLVT), is pleased to announce that the University of Delaware (UD) has selected Ex Libris Alma®️ for library management, Primo for library resource discovery, Leganto™️ for course resource delivery, and Esploro for research information management.
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February 2023
Three More Content Providers Supporting Ex Libris Quicklinks
The addition of American Society for Microbiology, Edinburgh University Press, and INFORMS, brings the total number of Quicklinks supporting providers up to thirty-one. Quicklinks takes user convenience and linking to a new level within Primo and Summon, by enabling users to go directly to the full text with one click.
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February 2023
Alma Analytics – “Become an Expert” webinar series
Starting in mid-February and running through early April, this free webinar series, comprised of eight 90-minute sessions, will provide learning opportunities for Alma Analytics operators at all levels. These sessions include information on using Analytics to manage inventory, monitor Acquisitions and Fulfillment activities and more.
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February 2023
Provide Access to Library Collections and Services on the Go
Learn first-hand how the University Libraries the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) address users’ digital expectations by providing access to library content and services via the Ex Libris’ Library Mobile app.
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January 2023
2023 Product Roadmaps Available
Ex Libris is maintaining the same pace of innovation to enhance its library software services in the upcoming year. Find out what's planned in 2023 across the library service roadmaps to help librarians become more efficient, provide better patron experiences, and deliver impact across the institution.
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January 2023
Read how Imperial College London enhances collaboration between library and academic staff to show the power of their library services
Teaching and learning have changed, and the shift to hybrid learning forces libraries to accelerate services related to course materials and provide alternatives to physical resources. Additionally, keeping students engaged is a huge challenge that libraries face nowadays and giving them direct access to content without leaving their learning environments, is a key.
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January 2023
The Key to Streamlining the Purchase of Course Materials.
the library team at the University of Edinburgh leverages the Ex Libris Leganto course resource list solution and Rialto, a comprehensive academic marketplace.
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January 2023
ELUNA 2023 – Submit a proposal and registration details
Call for proposals and early-bird registration are open for the Ex Libris-Users of North America (ELUNA) 2023 Annual Meeting. Join 1,000+ library colleagues, from May 9-12, 2023, for the first annual in-person meeting since 2019. Call for proposals are due by January 20 and early-bird registration ends on April 3. Remember, any Ex Libris-customer can attend.
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January 2023
Three Additional Content Providers Supporting Ex Libris Quick links
Ex Libris has collaborated with three new content providers to support Quicklinks. The addition of American Chemical Society, Cambridge University Press, and 高等教育出版社 (Higher Education Press) brings the total number up of supporting providers up to twenty-eight. Quicklinks takes user convenience and linking to a new level within Primo and Summon, by enabling users to go directly to the full text with one click.
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December 2022
University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions Library Consortium Selects Ex Libris Alma and Primo
Ex Libris®, part of Clarivate, is pleased to announce that University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions Library Consortium (USMAI) has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform and Primo for search and discovery.
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November 2022
New Journal Citation Indicator Cloud App
A new Ex Libris JCR Cloud App was released in November 2022 for integrating with the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) of the Web of Science. The Journal Citation Indicator (JCI), ranks journals by their citation impact and displays this ranking for subscribed Web of Science journals. Alma staff users can easily download the Cloud App from the Cloud App Center..
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November 2022
Customers celebrate the 10th birthday of Alma
Boston College deployed Alma ten years ago, becoming the first customer to go live and embrace the new frontier of resource management. Now Alma delivers value to more than 2,200 customers worldwide and continues to evolve with the support of the growing community. Listen to well wishes of librarians gathering at the recent IGeLU Annual Conference as they celebrate its birthday milestone.
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November 2022
New enhancements for Rapido customers
The November release for Rapido includes some notable features delivering more impact for both librarians and patrons. The Article Galaxy Add-on, a Cloud App, can check whether an article is available for acquisition, including pricing information, using Reprints Desk. Another enhancement delivers you the ability to push borrowing requests for further processing in Relais.
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November 2022
New report: Supporting academic research
With opportunities for open access and interdisciplinary collaboration, there are new challenges in demonstrating the real-world impact of research and diversifying revenue streams for funding. We worked with Alterline, an independent research agency, to assess the experience of researchers and senior members of university research offices.
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November 2022
‘Under pressure’ research offices seek to diversify funding
Searching for funding is a ‘heavy burden’ for academics and research offices alike, survey finds. Our new study on understanding the challenges of supporting academic research revealed some interesting results. 37% of research office leaders feel that diversifying income is a priority in 2022.
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October 2022
Consortial Approaches to Next Generation Resource Sharing
Listen to the recording to learn how Rapido delivers greater impact to enhance the user experience, fulfill requests faster, and expand resource sharing communities.
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October 2022
Experience Library Mobile as a patron
Library Mobile has integrations with Ex Libris Alma, Primo, Leganto, an intuitive library events calendar, targeted push notifications and content and more.
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October 2022
Leganto achieves a global milestone
The Leganto course resource list solution is now used by 300 institutions in 35 countries.
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October 2022
Twenty-five content providers now support Ex Libris Quicklinks
Ex Libris continues to collaborate with content providers to take user convenience and linking to a new level through Quicklinks.
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October 2022
Refreshed and new Web of Science content in the Central Discovery Index
With more than 80 million articles, the Web of Science content and its frequent updates enhance CDI metadata to deliver more relevant search results in both Primo and Summon.
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