The recording of the latest Alma acquisitions exchange of experience for EPUG members is now available:

Adam Robinson, who is the head of Academic Services, and Heather Cripps, who is the Content Delivery Officer at Derby, talked to EPUG-UKI about the successful integration between Alma and Oracle.

The Content and Digital Services team within the Library at the University of Derby are one of the first teams within the UK HE sector to implement an integration between the Library Management System (Alma) and the University finance system (Oracle). This innovative piece of work has enabled the team to save valuable staff time on double entry in both systems, minimise reconciliation activity between systems, and enhance accuracy within expenditure tracking and streamline the budgeting reporting process. The Alma-Oracle project involved collaboration across departments at the University, including Finance and I.T teams, and was spearheaded by the Library. This work was challenging and took considerable time and effort to come to fruition. Significant time was spent analysing return on investment, communicating and explaining complex acquisition workflows and financial procedures.

The Library team at Derby have confidence that the financial information within Alma is reflective of the information contained within the University Finance system, and staff are able to focus their efforts in other priority activities.

With thanks to Kevin O’Donovan from LSE for organising the topic and speaker.