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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.

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.

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.

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)

The unified Alma and Primo solutions are part of a digital transformation that aligns with the university’s aim of improving teaching, learning, and research experiences to enhance overall outcomes for faculty and students.

Fourteen libraries are now Early Access testers of the new AI Metadata Assistant for the Alma library management platform. As Early Access testers library staff are taking an active role in the initial phase of development for the AI-powered solution which is being designed to help library catalogers in their work and save them time.

Since June, more than 200 Ex Libris users have come together in Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia, and Argentina to share ideas, see what’s new, and get to know and learn from each other.

This annual IGeLU (International Group of Ex Libris Users) gathering brings together approximately 500 library professionals, and many members of the Clarivate executive team.

We've updated our extensive two-year product development plan for the unified Alma library management system for the rest of 2024 and throughout 2025