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)

Overview of normalisation rules – Melanie Peter-Turner (University of Law)

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 programme is also now available below:

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.

Dear All

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 call is next Thursday 17^th 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 – 7^th 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 11^th-14^th September– still time to sign up for physical or virtual attendance.  Registration closes end of 28^th August for physical registration and 6^th 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 16^th 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.

All the best

Alex
EPUG-UKI Chair

Below are the session recordings from the AGM, held on 23rd May 2023, with apologies for the delay in making these available.

All of these can be also viewed on our playlist on YouTube.

10:00 – 10:30 EPUG-UKI Welcome and AGM Business

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.

15:30 – 16:00 Closing Announcements

Alex Forrest – EPUG UK&I Chair

Hi Folks,

Hope your summer is going well. Phew it’s hot!

IGeLU 2022 Conference – September 12^th-15th

• Just a reminder if you are still to Register for IGeLU 2022 we would love to see you there in person or on screen.
• There will be a dedicated EPUG-UKI session for us to meet together.
• A reminder – every institution who is an EPUG-UKI member will qualify for £100 discount for ONE ticket (physical or virtual) – so make sure you don’t miss out on the opportunity. Registration is available here https://igelu.org/ – to apply for the discount code please mail epuguki.secretary@gmail.com.
• If you HAVE registered and want to ask ExLibris difficult questions – submit them now (closing 10^th Sept)  https://igelu.org/submission-to-the-qa-with-ex-libris-management-session-is-now-open/

Alma monthly call – now “EPUG-UKI Monthly Call”

• As agreed at our AGM we’ve re-named the Alma monthly call to reflect the fact that we talk about all things Ex Libris and not just Alma. You can find details here https://epuguki.org/about/monthly-calls/
• Next call is next Thursday – 18^th August – at 11:00

EPUG-UKI Committee membership

• We’re looking for a new member
• If you’re interested get in touch. Please don’t feel you have to be a Systems/Tech person or know everything about all ExLibris products. We are keen to reflect products and processes as widely as possible.  

EPUG-UKI website

• We’ve made a few changes to layout and content – let us know if you like it, or don’t like it

IGeLU – Steering Committee membership

• IGeLU are also looking for new members for the Steering Committee – if you’re interested and need more information get in touch. Or apply directly here https://igelu.org/2022-igelu-steering-committee-call-for-nominations/ – deadline is 14^th August – so quite soon!

All the best

Alex (Chair) – on behalf of the Committee

For this year’s AGM we are delighted to be welcoming the EPUG UK&I community back to the British Library Conference Centre for our first physical meeting in over 2 years.

This will be a long-awaited opportunity to not only engage with our speakers from both Ex Libris and the EPUG UK&I community but also a chance to network and have face-to-face discussions.

Whilst we recognise the benefits of attending in person we recognise that this may not be a feasible or preferred option for everyone, which is why this event will also be available remotely, via Zoom, broadcast live from the British Library Conference Centre.

Whether you’d like to attend in person or remotely, your membership fees contribute towards this FREE event, so please register your place today.

The event will take between 10:00 – 16:00 and topics to be covered include:

• EPUG UK&I Business
• Ex Libris Update
• Ex Libris Support Update
• RapidILL
• Networking Lunch (for physical attendees)
• Analytics Data Visualisations and Advanced Physical Holdings Search (Ex Libris Professional Services)
• Leganto Dashboard & Analytics
• Primo VE (possible topic – TBC)

These may be subject to change.

For those attending remotely you will need to have a Zoom account, which you will have if you have attended any other webinars in Zoom such as IGELU or EPUG UK&I AGM. Subtitles will be available.

Register now on Eventbrite

The registration form includes an option for submitting a question for the Ex Libris Q&A, alternatively you can email them to epuguki.secretary@gmail.com.

Registration closes:

• British Library Conference Centre attendance – Thursday 31st March at 17:00
• Remote attendance via Zoom – Friday 8th April at 17:00

Sessions will be recorded and made available on the EPUG UK&I website (with speakers’ permission).

We now have a date for your diaries for the EPUG UK&I AGM, taking place on Monday 11th April 2022 at the British Library Conference Centre, London and also as an online event via Zoom.

A provisional list of presentation topics includes:

• EPUG UK&I Business
• Updates from Ex Libris including Clarivate, Support and Data Excellence
• Rapid ILL
• Alma/Primo VE Normalisation
• Ex Libris Professional Services session – topic TBC
• Library management information dashboard
• British Library API

Please note some of these topics are subject to change, however, if you have any additional topics you would like to see covered or have something you would like to present yourself please do get in touch.

Save this date in your diary if you would like to attend. We will be sending out more information later this month including a link to register and a firmer list of topics/presentations. As EPUG UK&I members this event is free to attend, whether in person or virtually. When registration is available we will ask you to indicate whether you will be attending physically or virtually.

We appreciate this is the first physical event for some time (should you wish to attend in person) and therefore, as always, if you have any questions whatsoever please do get in touch.

For those who attended the online event on 12th October 2021 last week, thank you for your participation. We hope you found the sessions useful and we would be grateful if you would complete this short survey.

Recordings and presentations

Zoom recordings and presentation slides (where available) are included below or can be watched as a YouTube playlist. These may be added to later.

Welcome, EPUG UK&I Business and IGELU update

This session was presented by Alex Forrest (EPUG-UK&I Chair) and Ian Haydock (EPUG UK&I Treasurer).

Fulfilment on the Fly: Alma configuration changes for the pandemic

This session was presented by Thomas Kistell (Sheffield Hallam University).

Ex Libris Knowledge Day Session – Resource Sharing

This session was presented by Stephen Bowman (Ex Libris).

Links referenced in presentation:

• Alma Interoperability: RapidILL (YouTube)

Update from Ex Libris

This session also included answers to your pre-submitted questions and was presented by Tony Nercessian (Ex Libris), Alan Oliver (Ex Libris) and Martin Büscher (Ex Libris).

Links referenced in presentation:

• Upcoming Changes to the New Support Center (ProQuest Support Center)
• The New Support Center: Publishing Cases as Knowledge Articles (Ex Libris Knowledge Center)
• External user data: behavior of SIS synchronization and API (Ex Libris Developer Network)

Primo GoVE: Before and After

This session was presented by Tim Graves (University of Sussex).

Configuring Letters in Alma

This session was presented by Alan Dawson (Bangor University / WHELF).

Wrap up

This session was presented by Alex Forrest (EPUG-UK&I Chair).