We’re delighted to announce that registration is now open for the EPUG UKI E-Resources Day, hosted for us at the University of Leicester on Wednesday 4th September. Please register your attendance via the online form (details of location included).
The programme for the day is also available – there’s lots of time scheduled for discussion, so please come prepared to share your own experiences and ask questions. You can also let us know via the registration form if there’s anything else you’d be interested in covering.
The E-Resources Day will be in-person only; we will share updates from the day with the community more widely (as was done for the themed day on alumni and guest access last year). Our October conference will be a hybrid event – more details to come on this!
The recording of the June 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.
The June session focused on managing multi-year deals within Alma.
The next session will take place on Wednesday 14th August (2pm), focusing on financial year rollover.
10:30 – 11:15 Ex Libris (Part of Clarivate) Update, including Rapido for Resource Sharing
Alan Oliver (Director, Community Engagement) – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate Katie Birch (Senior Director, Product Management) – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
12:00 – 12:30 Support & Content Update and Ex Libris Q&A
Sofia Richards (Customer Care Manager) – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate Tamar Ganor (Senior Product Manager) – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate Alan Oliver (Director, Community Engagement) – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
12:30 – 13:00 UK Community Special Interest Groups Update
Leganto sessions – Sarah Pumfrey (Liverpool John Moores University) Acquisitions exchange of experience – Leah Emary (University of Sunderland)
14:00 – 14:30 Update on EPUG-UKI National Support Portal Account
Lee Houghton – EPUG UKI&I Chair
14:30 – 15:00 Primo Next Discovery Experience and Primo Analytics Focus Groups
Paul Harding – University of York
15:15 – 16:00 Primo purchase request and resource sharing forms – review and Implementation project
There is an opportunity to submit questions to Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate. Please do this by Friday 19th April either as part of your registration or by emailing epuguki.secretary@gmail.com.
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. This event will also be recorded and made available shortly afterwards.
Amanda Swann EPUG-UKI Secretary, on behalf of the Committee
The next call for people interested in acquisitions in Alma will be Wednesday 17 April at 2pm. David Rowe from UWE has kindly offered to talk to us about their (still ongoing) journey towards full ERM. If you have any questions or requests for details in advance of the call or if you too would like to share your experience, please add them to our agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PcGLyEw_fOSUBAwOxmJYXZcf4vf9dUvz5J6HYzhqpYY/edit?usp=sharing
A link to join the meeting is also in the agenda above and anyone on the calendar invite from last time will get an invitation. If you would like to be added to the calendar invitation, please send a message to Leah.Emary@sunderland.ac.uk.
Thanks to everyone who replied to the poll on amenable days, times and frequency of future acquisitions calls. The majority would like bi-monthly calls on Wednesday afternoons.
We’re starting to make plans for our Spring 2024 event – this will likely take place remotely (via Zoom) on Wednesday 24th April.
The idea is to try and theme this event around Analytics and processes/workflows across the Ex Libris products – if you’d be willing to present anything related to these themes, please do get in touch with epuguki.secretary@gmail.com. This could be related to any Ex Libris system (Alma, Primo, Leganto, Rapido/RapidILL, Rialto) – have you recently reviewed a particular workflow or process which you’d like to share? Has implementing a new system or feature helped streamline existing processes? How do you use Analytics to make data-driven decisions in your institution or for a particular workflow? Are you doing anything interesting with report which the community could learn from e.g. SCONUL benchmarking, data visualisation? Or if you have any other suggestions, please get in touch!
On behalf of the EPUG-UKI committee I’d like to thank you for attending the October conference – it was great to see so many people attending both in person and online.
If you missed any of the sessions, or want to watch them again or share with colleagues, a playlist is now available on the EPUG-UKI YouTube channel – please subscribe if you haven’t already. The session recordings are also available below
When you have a moment, we would really appreciate it if you could complete the conference feedback survey. Your comments and feedback help us to plan future events and include topics that are most useful and relevant, and if you are interested in delivering a session at a future event we would love to hear from you!
With best wishes
Lee
Lee Houghton
Chair – EPUG-UKI
10:00-10:15 EPUG-UK&I Business & Treasurer Report
Alex Forrest – EPUG UK&I Chair
Ian Haydock – EPUG UK&I Treasurer
10:15-10:45 Ex Libris (Part of Clarivate) Update & New Developments
Alan Oliver – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
10:45-11:00 Support Update
Martin Büscher – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
11:00-11:30 Panel Discussion and Q&A
Alan Oliver – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
Martin Büscher – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
Alex Forrest – EPUG UK&I Chair
Stephen Harding – EPUG UK&I Secretary
Ian Haydock – EPUG UK&I Treasurer
Amanda Swann – EPUG UK&I Committee
11:45-12:15 Themed Day Feedback – Kiosks and E-Resource Access Management for different user groups
Tom Kistell – Sheffield Hallam University
Laurence Lockton – University of Bath
12:15-12:30 EPUG-UK&I Committee Candidates and Voting
EPUG-UK&I Committee
13:30-14:00 EPUG-UK&I Confirmation of new Committee Members
EPUG-UK&I Committee
14:00-14:45 Rialto, OpenRefine and Leganto: developing a bulk purchasing workflow
Isabel Benton – University of Leeds
Elly Cope – University of Leeds (Elly was unable to attend the conference)
15:00-16:00 Primo facets and normalisation rules
Primo faceting using Open Access licenses in MARC records – Alison Hazelaar and Trevor Hough (University of Leeds)
Local facet for De-Colonisation work in Primo VE – Jill Hazard (Sheffield Hallam University)
We’re looking forward to welcoming the community to our annual conference on Monday 16th October 2023.
If you haven’t already, please register your attendance on Eventbrite, where you can select whether you’d like to attend in person at the British Library in London, or online via Zoom webinar.
The closing date to register for in person attendance at the British Library has been extended to Monday 9th October at 17:00.
Registration for attendance via Zoom remains open until Friday 13th October at 17:00.
We’d love to see you as many of you as possible in person at the British Library, as an opportunity to network with both colleagues at other UK&I institutions and from Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate.
If you have already registered as a Zoom participant, but would instead like to attend at the British Library, please email epuguki.secretary@gmail.com, and vice versa.
One of the sessions will be a panel discussion between EPUG-UK&I reps and colleagues from Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate, where we’ll discuss some of the key issues raised during last month’s IGeLU conference and the INUG report put together in advance of this. The report and notes from the EPUG-UK&I session at IGeLU are included below:
If you have any questions for Ex Libris colleagues, please include these in your registration or email them to epuguki.secretary@gmail.com by Friday 13th October. For those of you attending via Zoom, the joining link and instructions will be emailed to you the weekend before the conference (14th-15th October). You’ll just need to ensure you have Zoom installed and a Zoom account set up in order to join on the Monday.
Hope you’re having a great ‘summer’ and have had some break.
We have a few news items for EPUG-UKI. In chronological order…
The next EPUG-UKI Sharing of Experience callis next Thursday17th August If you have anything to raise please add to the agenda. We’d like to cover some EPUG-UKI business at the start if that’s ok.
Sheffield Hallam In Person Themed Day – 7th September – Kiosks and E-Resource access for different types of library visitors.
Kiosks (how we manage walk in access for our users, particularly visitors, special collections etc) – how are people managing this? What kiosks do you manage? What kiosks do you need?
E-Resources –How do you manage a white list for particular sets of users. How do you manage discovery and access?
We will have an opening talk from one site both morning and afternoon. We will leave a good part of the day open for discussion. The main aim of the day is for us to discuss our needs (common or not) and whether we can help share solutions. If you haven’t signed up (30 attendees max)– here’s the link – please sign up on Eventbrite.
IGeLU 2023 – Leuven 11th-14th September– still time to sign up for physical or virtual attendance. Registration closes end of 28th August for physical registration and 6th September for. More details here
EPUG-UKI Committee – a reminder that all three postholders (Chair, Secretary and Treasurer and Memberships) have reached the end of term. We are inviting nominations. We already have two names. If you are interested and would like to talk to us, please do. We would ask that we have all interested names by the end of August.
EPUG-UKI Autumn Hybrid conference in British Library London – Monday 16th October – we’re actively seeking people to do sessions. Please get in touch if you’d be happy to share experience about any of your work with ExLibris products or integrations.
And last – but definitely not the least – we will be losing Abbie from the committee. Abbie is moving jobs so won’t be able to continue. We send all the best of wishes and a massive thank you to her from the User Group for all the help she has been over the past year and a half. We know we’ll see her again as the library world is a small and lovely thing.
Alex Forrest – EPUG UK&I Chair Ian Haydock – EPUG UK&I Treasurer
10:30 – 10:45 Welcome and High-Level Update
Alan Oliver – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
10:45 – 11:15 Support Update
Martin Büscher – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
11:15 – 11:45 Leganto Product Update
Dolav Ben-Artzi –Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
This session will include an update on the product roadmap, the new UX and the DCS multi-course integration.
11:45 – 12:00 Your Questions and Answers
Answered by Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
13:00 – 13:50 Do you know about (i) DARA, (ii) Cloud Apps, (iii) Collection Discovery?
Alan Oliver – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate Alex Forrest – EPUG-UKI Chair
This session will be presented by Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate and by EPUG-UKI featuring feedback from the user group on which Cloud Apps have been most useful to the UKI community.
13:50 – 14:10 Using Robotics for User Purging in Alma at The University of Manchester
Amanda Swann – The University of Law
14:20 – 14:50 Automating RapidILL
Abbie Ball – University of Plymouth Tom Wicks – University of Plymouth
14:50 – 15:10 Choose Your Own Alma Adventure – figuring out e-collection workflows at NTU
Lee Houghton – Nottingham Trent University
Having been live with Alma for just over a year, in this session Nottingham Trent University will share how they currently manage their e-collections, how they utilise the Community Zone and how some of Alma’s advanced tools have helped along the way.
15:10 – 15:30 Library Mobile at The University of Salford: improving the student experience
Angela Walker – University of Salford
In 2021, the University of Salford implemented Library Mobile, this presentation looks at how the app has improved the user experience.
EPUG-UKI 