tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788Wed, 15 May 2019 11:54:16 +0000AlmaPrimodiscoveryunified resource managementdiscovery solutionAlma livebXnext-generation library systemPrimo CentralURMContent neutralityALAAlma early-adopter programopen accessRosettaSFXcollaborationCatalogingOpen PlatformPrimo livealtmetricsbX discoveryhot articlesvideoDiscovery and DeliveryEdinburgh NapierItalyKU LeuvenLIBISnetLSEMetadata ManagementSelection/AcquisitionsSerendipityUniversity of SheffieldbX Hot Articlesbrowsingdigital preservatione-contentinstitutional repositoriespersonalized rankingAlma Development PartnerAnglia Ruskin UniversityAzriel MoragBSZClare PowneContent opennessDeveloper NetworkDigital ContentDurham University LibraryELUNAEl CommonsFulfillmentGermanyGoogle BooksHARRASSOWITZHTWK LeipzigHeritage CollectionsIOEInstitute of EducationJo RademakersJournalTOCKTHLancaster UniversityLibrary DiscoveryLibrary analyticsLondon School of Economics and Political Science LibraryNILDENatural History MuseumOAI9 WorkshopOPACOpen UniversityPatron ManagementProQuestRoyal Institute of TechnologySFX OpenURL link resolverTor Vergata University of RomeUKSGUniversity of SussexUniversity of YorkUniversità de CamerinoUser StudiesWHELFWalesWikipediaagileannual awardbX Recommendercitationconsortiadata correlationgourcehappy accidenthybrid journalsimpactinnovationinspirationinstitutional mandatemetricsopen architectureopen interfacespublishersrational serendipityscholarly evaluationsingle search interfacesubject visualizationusage dataDiscovery | Management | Preservationhttp://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-3185996387033567453Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:45:00 +00002017-02-16T08:47:01.445-05:00 Tweet  Dana Sharvit, Product Manager, Ex Libris Working with the Ex Libris community has always been an integral part of the Ex Libris philosophy. This week we were excited to be able to host a great team from our Alma community for a hands-on Alma New User Interface workshop. The team has been working hard all week on a live environment of the new interface. Each participant has been http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2017/02/new-alma-ux-workshop-sticky-notes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-5511733363564678371Thu, 02 Feb 2017 07:21:00 +00002017-02-02T04:56:10.656-05:00 Tweet  Christine Stohn, Senior Product Manager Discovery & Delivery, Ex Libris NISO KBART (Knowledge Base and Related Tools) was originally initiated in 2008, and grew to become something much greater than what it was initially intended for. Today KBART is not only a format that is widely used in the industry, but also a baseline for new processes and developments. But before I talk about http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2017/02/niso-kbart-standardizing-holding.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-5521915880531307126Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:45:00 +00002017-01-30T09:12:56.301-05:00 Tweet   Dani Guzman, Product Marketing Director, Ex Libris At the start of this new year, we note both how libraries provide access to the past and how they are adapting (or should) to the future. From examining news from 150 years ago through current ebook cataloging to tomorrow’s virtual reality, the modern library has a role to play and capabilities to explore to their fullest. How? Read http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2017/01/the-librarys-buzz-january-2017.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-7829179125811137090Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:52:00 +00002017-01-19T05:01:56.001-05:00Tweet ALA Midwinter in Atlanta is here! Don't miss the presentations on Alma, Primo & Summon, and Leganto. This year we're talking about openness and collaboration, history and innovation, and the challenges of higher education. Alma Saturday, January 21 Your Connected Library: Openness, Integrations, and Knowledge-Sharing 8:30 - 10:00 AM | Georgia World Congress Center | Room A315 http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2017/01/ex-libris-at-ala-midwinter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-5241396333927706110Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:52:00 +00002017-01-16T08:54:17.835-05:00 Tweet  This post was originally published on the ProQuest Blog. The Oxford Dictionaries 2016 word of the year: post-truth. Amazing that even one or two years ago, phrases like post-truth and “fake news” were essentially unknown in popular usage.  But there is plenty of precedent: - As far back as 1992, according to Christian Science Monitor, the first known use of “post-truth” appeared in http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2017/01/the-librarys-role-in-post-truth-fake-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-8237332728418158234Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:33:00 +00002017-01-16T08:48:45.038-05:00 Tweet  Anyone who has worked on a research project knows how valuable it is to find unexpected material related to your topic. There are numerous ways to do this. In the world of serendipitous discovery, citations— in particular, who cited a work and who is cited by another work— provide a defined track for expanding your research. Following this string of citations—the citation trail— http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2017/01/serendipitous-discovery-3-important-expand-research.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-5925723910490169922Mon, 09 Jan 2017 08:57:00 +00002017-01-09T04:16:33.388-05:00Tweet  Barbara Rad-El, Senior Librarian, Ex Libris This year Ex Libris is celebrating its 30th anniversary. This remarkable milestone caused me to stop, pause, and think about my own personal journey with this amazing company. I joined Ex Libris in 1991. At that time there were actually two companies – Aleph Yissum, located at the Hebrew University, which developed the Aleph softwarehttp://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2017/01/thirty-years-of-ex-libris-personal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-726121160240652551Tue, 03 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +00002017-01-03T07:54:45.949-05:00 Tweet  As we turn the page to 2017, here’s a look back at the blog posts that generated the most interest during the past year. Thanks for following us! UX in Action: Ex Libris Primo New User Interface In a series of posts early in 2016, we discussed the fundamental principles of UX design and how to apply them to library services. In this summary blog post we presented how Ex Libris put http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2017/01/the-best-of-2016-top-10-ex-libris-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-6795911732584678706Thu, 29 Dec 2016 10:49:00 +00002016-12-29T05:49:14.533-05:00 Tweet  Dani Guzman, Product Marketing Director, Ex Libris We decided to use the last Buzz of 2016 to celebrate our favorite professional – the librarian. An interesting new study shows how librarians are perceived by the public, while an active Twitter feed gives librarians a chance to present themselves as they really are. Looking into 2017 and beyond, we’ve also seen what the librarian of http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/12/the-librarys-buzz-december-2016.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-7881814984484759667Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:02:00 +00002016-12-19T07:05:42.964-05:00Tweet  We are always proud of our community, and never prouder than when we can share the results of a community initiative where Primo users help each other. Last week was the Primo Hackathon, sponsored by ELUNA and IGeLU, where over 300 Primo users learned how best to customize the new Primo UI with the Primo open discovery framework, shared best practices, and created some customizations of http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/12/primo-hackathon-open-discovery-framework-community.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-618227851745984923Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:57:00 +00002016-12-13T12:21:46.990-05:00Tweet We are excited to announce our December release with some great new enhancements in Alma. One of the major outcomes of the new release is the birth of Alma Mobile. Now Alma can be by your side while you roam the floor of the library, and you can access and work with Alma from anywhere! You can download Alma Mobile for free from Google Play for Android or from iTunes for iOS. http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/12/alma-mobile-available-download-free.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-732311307709547643Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:22:00 +00002016-12-05T08:22:13.482-05:00 Tweet Kevin Stehr, Vice President, ProQuest Some parts of our lives that relate to goals and changes are relatively easy to analyze. If you’re training for your first half-marathon, for instance, your times over shorter races can accurately predict your success at 13.1 miles. Other change initiatives are a bit harder to analyze. The goals may shift; the numbers may be more fluid or anecdotalhttp://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/12/measuring-impact-of-library-change.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-1397550538853659561Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:54:00 +00002016-12-01T05:15:08.041-05:00 Tweet Dani Guzman, Ex Libris November was the month of the annual Charleston Conference, three days of thought-provoking presentations on the present and future of the library arts. Of course, Ex Libris was there – and we will shortly be sharing what we see as the key takeaways. Another important year-end event is the release of the Library Journal magazine’s Year in Architecture review, http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/12/the-librarys-buzz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-8180258702079153029Mon, 28 Nov 2016 09:00:00 +00002016-11-28T04:02:44.735-05:00Tweet We have all seen how changing technologies can lead – unintentionally and over time – to compounded inefficiencies in managing digital and electronic resources. That is what happened at Boston University, with its 15 schools and nearly two million electronic resources, just a few years ago.  The library staff was working with a homegrown system for electronic journals, a remotely http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/11/boston-university-digital-librarianship.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-3533630391668249658Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:31:00 +00002016-11-24T08:31:46.113-05:00 Tweet Kevin Stehr, Vice President, ProQuest Change is always around the corner – so why do we resist it so consistently? Harvard Business Review tackled that questions in 2012 and came up with their Top Ten reasons – many of which sound so familiar in a library environment. They list “loss of control,” “everything seems different,” “more work” and the ever-popular fear of surprise as some of http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/11/fearing-change-its-only-natural.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-6560507993926685348Mon, 21 Nov 2016 21:11:00 +00002016-11-22T02:40:26.215-05:00Tweet Kevin Stehr, Vice President, ProQuest A sweeping survey of space reclamation “There are things we could provide to students and faculty if only we had more space available.” “We’ve given up some of our areas to other university groups, so space has become a premium item.” “Balancing use of space is key – there are many competing needs!” Those remarks and many more came from 608 http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/11/space-reclamation-is-change-driver-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-2093967548209685440Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:18:00 +00002016-11-17T08:18:59.089-05:00Tweet In this edition of From the Developer’s Toolbox, we are pleased to highlight the University of Western Australia’s idea for working more effectively with PubMed and the Alma resource management system. Our own R&D team has also been sharing some new tips on how to get the most out of Alma, such as using social networks for login, handling Dublin Core metadata records for digital http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/11/from-developers-toolbox-highlights-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-4291509976623687233Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:42:00 +00002016-11-15T05:32:44.891-05:00 Tweet Christine Stohn, Product Manager Discovery & Delivery, Ex Libris I recently had the opportunity together with Pascal Calarco,  University Librarian at Windsor University and John G. Dove, Consultant at Paloma & Associates, to present some of the work we are doing at NISO, the National Information Standards Organization at the Charleston Conference 2016. We had great attendance, and http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/11/discovery-access-landscape-niso-community.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-7835562003981697368Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:11:00 +00002016-11-10T08:36:16.953-05:00 Tweet Adi Alter, Rosetta Product Manager, Ex Libris It's always exciting to share a new release with our customers, especially a major release like this one, which focuses on operational efficiency and ease of use. With more than 50 enhancements, we are proud to share some of the highlights of Rosetta's latest release: version 5.1. Improved User Interface: Designed to simplify your http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/11/the-new-rosetta-51-looking-good.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-5724698761005465947Mon, 07 Nov 2016 12:56:00 +00002016-11-07T07:57:08.337-05:00Tweet In a recent Inside Higher Ed article focusing on the latest “Greta Van Susteren vs. library” controversy, we are reminded by Edward Van Gemert, university librarian at the University of Wisconsin, that “the library facilitates access to content, both online and through in-person visits” to support “research, teaching and learning.” As pointed out throughout this article, the relevance of http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/11/the-relevance-of-librarians-to-research.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-7209398753706275013Fri, 04 Nov 2016 08:05:00 +00002016-11-04T04:05:04.310-04:00 Tweet Dani Guzman, Product Marketing Director, Ex Libris October was the International School Library Month, a perfect time to look at the buzz around the future of libraries. Several articles this month highlight the ever-present tension between increasing digitization and maintaining physical library assets - from imagining what some of the world’s most well-known libraries would look like http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/11/the-librarys-buzz-october-2016.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-1870129927886289940Thu, 03 Nov 2016 12:41:00 +00002016-11-03T08:41:11.070-04:00 Tweet Many top tier research institutions are engaged in one or more projects to build their own discovery interfaces. As these libraries move to support researchers in more strategic ways, they want to offer indexing and discovery of a wide variety of research materials, often including materials created at their institutions. These interfaces are being locally developed, using open source http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/11/join-open-source-discovery-layers-initiative.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-78012103139954846Mon, 31 Oct 2016 12:00:00 +00002016-10-31T08:09:13.546-04:00Content neutralitydiscoveryDiscovery and Delivery Tweet Eddie Neuwirth, Director of Product Management - Discovery Services, Ex Libris Every library is unique in some way, so it is logical that libraries need to take different approaches to evaluating which discovery service might be right for them. There have been a significant number of published papers and conference presentations in recent years about how to evaluate, select, and http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/10/library-content-neutrality-12-questions-discovery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-1683724243683383094Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:56:00 +00002016-10-27T11:31:10.419-04:00Tweet  After our recent Developers Day “retrospective,” many of you were wondering what we had to say about IGeLU itself. So without further ado, here is a look back from Theo Engelman, the Chair of IGeLU. And don't miss the many blogs from attendees listed in the sidebar! A Look Back at IGeLU Theo Engelman, Chair of IGeLU The IGeLU conference, held in Trondheim on September 5-7, was a http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/10/an-igelu-retrospective.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959612969644595788.post-6087280157023787645Mon, 24 Oct 2016 06:00:00 +00002016-10-24T02:00:00.880-04:00 Tweet  Jackie Sherlock, campusM Mobile technology has come a long way in a relatively short space of time. In the the early days, mobile telephones came with batteries as big as suitcases and the only thing that you could do with them was make a phone call.  Compare that with the smartphones of today. These devices are so much more than a means of telecommunication. To many they are an http://initiatives.exlibrisgroup.com/2016/10/mobile-technology-for-students-evolution-revolution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (MB)1