January 4, 2016
William & Mary is the tenth member of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries to choose Ex Libris cloud solutions
Chicago, IL—January 04, 2016. Ex Libris® a ProQuest company®, a leading global provider of library automation solutions, is pleased to announce that the College of William & Mary in Virginia has adopted the Ex Libris Alma® resource management solution and the Primo® discovery solution. Alma will replace the College’s existing SirsiDynix library system.
William & Mary College chose Alma and Primo following an evaluation of other commercial solutions. A member of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries, the college required a solution that would enable students and faculty to enjoy easy access to its wealth of scholarly resources.
Georgie L. Donovan, Associate Dean of Collections & Content Services, commented: ”The integration on a single platform of discovery, library management, knowledge base, link resolver authority work, ERM, and reporting was central to our decision to adopt Alma and Primo. In addition, their software as a service (SaaS) deployment promises that updates will be continuous, simultaneous with other customers, and without installation processes that rely on our management. Most importantly, Primo offers an elegant, user friendly interface, where our clients will be easily able to find the wonderful materials which we collect. We thought it was important that any public discovery catalog give a strong, accurate presentation of our e-resources, while maintaining browsability of print resources (via virtual shelf browsing), and the integration with book covers, table of contents, and other helpful print content.”
Ms. Donovan continued: ”Alma also opens doors to closer collaboration with our partners in Virginia, such as Virginia Commonwealth University and Old Dominion University. We hope to begin resource sharing and other avenues of collaboration as soon as we implement Alma and Primo.”
Eric Hines, president of Ex Libris North America, remarked. ”We are proud to welcome William & Mary College to the Alma and Primo community in North America. Primo will enable this historic institution to expose and make accessible its rich and extensive collections, while Alma will help the University Library strengthen its ties with partners in Virginia who are already using Alma to help accomplish their parent institutions’ strategic goals.”
About William and Mary College
Founded in 1693 and located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, the College of William & Mary is the second oldest university in the nation, and has educated many of the nation’s Founding Fathers and leaders, thus earning the name “the alma mater of a nation.” The university is known for its rigorous liberal arts curriculum and dedicated, engaged professors. William and Mary is a “Public Ivy” – one of only eight in the nation – offering a superior education that’s accessible to everyone. William and Mary Libraries strives to support and enhance teaching and research, and foster intellectual curiosity, creativity and lifelong learning. The ILS and public library catalog hosted by the William and Mary Libraries includes the holdings of the Wolf Law Library at William and Mary, the Richard Bland College Library, and the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library at Colonial Williamsburg, in addition to the holdings of Swem Library and the branch libraries of William and Mary. For more information see www.wm.edu/
About Ex Libris
Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, is a leading global provider of cloud-based and on-premises solutions for higher education. Offering SaaS implementations for the management and discovery of the full spectrum of library materials, as well as mobile campus services for driving student engagement and success, the Company serves over 5,600 customers in 90 countries. Ex Libris solutions are deployed at 43 of the top 50 universities worldwide and more than 40 national libraries.
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