Posts, slides and videos related to past events are shown below. For older events see our Past Events Archive page.
The recording of May’s meeting 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 recordings from this year’s Spring Conference, remotely via Zoom on 29-30th May 2025, are available below and via YouTube.
Lee Houghton – EPUG UKI&I Chair
Laurence Lockton – EPUG UKI&I Treasurer
Alex O’Flynn (Natural History Museum)
Ben Cornish (Natural History Museum)
Ian Haydock (Keele)
Laura Borcherds (Nottingham Trent University)
Sarah Hornby (Newcastle)
Amanda Foster (Northumbria)
Alan Oliver (Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate)
Ruth Starr Senior Accessibility Program Manager (Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate)
This session was a rearranged session filmed on the 14th May.
Martin Buescher Director, Customer Care (Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate)
Elly Cope (Leeds)
Jenny McNally (WHELF)
Bronwen Blatchford (Cardiff)
Beth Parry (Leeds)
The recordings and presentation slides from this year’s Autumn Conference, held in person at the British Library, London and remotely via Zoom on Monday 7th October 2024, are available below and via YouTube.
Please note, some of the videos contain multiple sessions.
Lee Houghton (EPUG UKI Chair) & Laurence Lockton (EPUG UKI Treasurer)
Ex Libris (Part of Clarivate) Update – Alan Oliver, Clarivate
EPUG UK&I E-Resources Day Feedback – Amanda Swann, EPUG Secretary
Claudia Isbir, Ex Libris (part of Clarivate)
Alan Oliver, Ex Libris (part of Clarivate)
What is digital accessibility, and what can academic libraries do to be compliant? – Lizzie McCauley & Tobe Amadi (The Open University)
Testing the Ex Libris AI Metadata Assistant – Alison Hazelaar, Ceilan Hunter-Green, Alice Jones & Zoe Marshall (University of Leeds)
Update from the Next Discovery Experience and Mixpanel Focus Groups – Paul Harding (University of York)
Relevance ranking to improve user experience and improving the discoverability of
Heritage/Special Collections using discovery import profiles – Andrew Dove (University of Exeter)
Our 2023-24 year in resource sharing using Rapido and RapidILL – Stacey Brown (Nottingham Trent University)
Registration is now closed.
This is a hybrid event, both in person at the British Library Knowledge Centre and online via Zoom.
Date and time:
Monday 7th October 2024 10:00-16:00 GMT
See the event programme (subject to change). Download
Please be advised that registration for in-person attendance closed at 5pm on Friday 20th September to allow catering requirements to be finalised.
Registration for virtual attendance closed on Thursday 3rd October.
There is an opportunity to submit questions to Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate. Please do this by Thursday 3rd October either as part of your registration or by emailing epuguki.secretary@gmail.com.
For those registering as remote attendees, the event will be streamed 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 – attending online means colleagues can dip in and out of sessions that are of interest to them.
Kind regards,
Amanda Swann
EPUG-UKI Secretary, on behalf of the Committee
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!
Many thanks,
Amanda (on behalf of the committee)
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.
The recordings from this year’s AGM are now available to view below and via YouTube.
Lee Houghton – EPUG UKI&I Chair
Laurence Lockton – EPUG UKI&I Treasurer
Alan Oliver (Director, Community Engagement) – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
Katie Birch (Senior Director, Product Management) – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
Alan Dawson – Bangor University
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
Leganto sessions – Sarah Pumfrey (Liverpool John Moores University)
Acquisitions exchange of experience – Leah Emary (University of Sunderland)
Lee Houghton – EPUG UKI&I Chair
Paul Harding – University of York
Alex Marshall – University of Leicester
Lee Houghton – EPUG UK&I Chair
Dear EPUG-UKI colleagues,
Registration is now open for this year’s AGM event taking place on Wednesday 24th April, remotely via Zoom.
See the event programme below (subject to change):
To register for this event complete the registration Google form:
Ex Libris Product User Group UK & Ireland (EPUG-UK&I) 2024 AGM Registration
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!
Many thanks,
Amanda (on behalf of the EPUG-UKI committee)
EPUG-UKI 