EPUG UK&I will be hosting an in-person day focused on E-Resources & Content, hosted by the University of Salford on Tuesday 20^th May, 10am-4pm.

Tamar Ganor (Content Product Manager, Clarivate) will be joining us for the day and there will be an opportunity to ask questions and for discussion directly with Tamar. The day is intended to follow up on some of the themes and issues raised during the E-Resources Day held in Leicester in September 2024. 

• Programme for the day (registration has now closed)

Please contact epuguki.secretary@gmail.com if you require any further information, or have any questions.

Kind regards,

EPUG UK&I Committee

(Lee, Laurence, Amanda, Sally & Scott)

Dear EPUG-UKI colleagues,

Registration is now open for this year’s AGM & Spring conference event. This year the event will be split across 2 days, Tuesday 29^th April (1.30-4.30pm) & Wednesday 30^th April (9.30am-12.30pm), and will take place remotely via Zoom.

See the event programme below (subject to change):

There is an opportunity to submit questions for Ex Libris & Clarivate colleagues. Please do this by Tuesday 22nd April either as part of your registration or by emailing epuguki.secretary@gmail.com.

This year, we are also planning to offer an informal networking session at the end of the conference on Wednesday 30th April. Please let us know in your registration if you’d be interested in joining this.

This is an online event, via a Zoom webinar, and joining details will be mailed out after registering. Feel free to share details of this event within your service/institution – being an online event means colleagues can dip in and out of sessions that are of interest to them. The event will also be recorded and made available shortly afterwards.

Amanda Swann
EPUG-UKI Secretary, on behalf of the Committee

Save the date: 29^th and 30^th April

We are pleased to update that we will be holding our Spring conference this year on Tuesday 29^th April (1-4.30pm) & Wednesday 30^th April (9.30am-12.30pm), which will be held online over Zoom.

Thanks to those of you who responded to the survey we sent out before Christmas asking for attendance preferences – after reviewing the responses, we have decided to host both our Spring and Autumn conferences this year as online only events, and hopefully return to at least 1 in person/hybrid event next year. Only a small number of respondents indicated that they would be able to attend in person (in either location mentioned) and from reading the additional comments, it seems travel & training budgets are particularly restrictive this year across the HE sector, so hosting as online seems a more effective use of resources this year.

Many of you did mention the value of in person for networking and we’re planning ways we can incorporate some element of networking into the spring event – any suggestions on this welcome.

Call for speakers

We are also looking for speakers! Please get in touch with epuguki.secretary@gmail.com by Friday 21^st February if you’d like to present in April. This can be on any aspect of Ex Libris products or systems such as:

• Alma, Primo (VE/BO), Leganto, Rialto, Rapido, Rapid ILL
• Recent system implementations, migrations, or integrations with external systems
• Projects reviewing workflows within the Ex Libris systems
• New features you’ve recently enabled or tested
• User engagement/UX studies
• Innovative use of systems, features, or data e.g. analytics, Linked Open Data, AI

Presentations can be between 20-45 mins in length (please specify the preferred length of your presentation) and new/first-time presenters are welcome.

We hope to open registration at the end of February.

Future in person/themed days

Although we have made the decision to host both larger conferences online this year, the EPUG committee does have funds to be able to support smaller in person days. Some suggestions for ways this could be done included:

• Regional networking days – aimed at EPUG members within a certain area of the UK or Ireland and providing an opportunity to network whilst minimising travel costs for institutions
• Training days themed around a specific topic or issue
  • Investigating whether Ex Libris could potentially run one of their premium sessions for EPUG members

If you would be interested in hosting an in person day at your own institution with support from EPUG-UKI, please contact epuguki.secretary@gmail.com

Kind regards,

Amanda (on behalf of the EPUG UKI Committee)

The recording of December’s Q&A-based call is now available to watch. All previous session recordings are also available via a YouTube playlist.

Contact Leah Emary (Leah.Emary@sunderland.ac.uk) directly to be added to the calendar invitation for upcoming meetings or to find out more.

The recording of the October session of the Acquisitions Exchange of Experience group is now available to watch (embedded below). All previous session recordings are available via a YouTube playlist.

This month’s session focused on the EBSCONET API integration with Alma. Kath Halfpenny (University of Liverpool) presented on the configuration and set-up of the EBSCONET API and how this works with subscription orders in EBSCONET and Alma.

The next session will take place on Wednesday 11th December (2pm). Instead of having a speaker this time, we’ll just be asking any questions or addressing any issues you may have. If you would like to pose a question to the group, please add it to the bottom of our shared agenda. There are a number of questions there already so please add comments or have a think in advance of the call if you can share your experience or set up.

Contact Leah Emary (Leah.Emary@sunderland.ac.uk) directly to be added to the calendar invitation for upcoming meetings or to find out more.