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
Thank you to everyone who attended last week’s AGM – it was great to see so many of you joining over the day. We also look forward to seeing some of you in person at our planned hybrid event in October at the British Library…watch this space for a save the date.
Recordings from the AGM will shortly be made available and we’ll be contacting attendees with a short feedback survey.
In the meantime, there are a couple of other updates:
Following the closure of Jisc’s KB+ service in February, Ex Libris and Jisc have been working together to update information about collections in the Ex Libris KnowledgeBases.
Tamar Ganor from Ex Libris and Jonathan Blaney from Jisc have kindly agreed to deliver a joint session to update the UK community on progress with the transition away from KB+, and next steps for the project. The session will be delivered via Teams on Thursday 16th May 3:30 – 4pm UK time.
A link to the session has been sent round the EPUG-UKI mailing lists, but please contact the committee if you need the link sending on.
The recording of the latest Acquisitions Exchange of Experience, which took place on 17th April, is now available (embedded below). All session recordings are available via a YouTube playlist.
The April session focused on Electronic Resource Management (ERM) in Alma, with a presentation from David Rowe (UWE) on their experiences with ERM implementation so far.
Hi all,
We are delighted to launch a group Support Portal (Salesforce) account for the EPUG-UKI community to use.
This account is available to raise support tickets for issues which are affecting a large portion of the UKI Community, or are UKI-specific (e.g. JISC Collections content issues, DCS/Leganto integration, integration with the British Library for resource sharing).
We will be able to share the log in details with EPUG member institutions, who will then be able to raise support cases directly within the support portal. To request the log in details for the account, please complete this form. Upon completion, the form will be sent to the EPUG Secretary, who after checking your institution’s membership, will then send on the log in details to the requestor. You are then free to share the log in details within your own institution.
Guidelines are available on the use of the account, and Lee Houghton (EPUG Chair) will give an update and demo on logging tickets using the national account at the upcoming AGM.
Any questions, suggestions or issues related to the use of the account can be directed to the EPUG Committee.
Kind regards,
EPUG-UKI Committee
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.
Leah Emary (University of Sunderland) hosted an Exchange of Experience focused around Acquisitions in Alma on 25th January 2024, as an off-shoot from the monthly Alma EPUG call.
The session recording is now available for you to watch below and via the EPUG-UKI YouTube channel.
There was clearly an appetite to continue these conversations and Leah has created a poll to get a feeling for when and how often would work for most folks to meet (https://forms.office.com/e/HY3Gp0CPQF). If you are interested in joining any future meetings of this group, please respond to the poll by 29 February.
Any future meetings will be publicised on the EPUG-UKI website and via the listserv. Future session recordings can also be added to the YouTube playlist and shared with the community. There are already some great ideas of questions to ask at future meet-ups in the shared Google doc (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PcGLyEw_fOSUBAwOxmJYXZcf4vf9dUvz5J6HYzhqpYY/edit?usp=sharing). Please continue to add your ideas and tricky acquisitions challenges there.
Thanks very much to Leah for organising, and to Joanne Pearson for sharing her experience and knowledge about continuous POLs.
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)
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
Alex Forrest – EPUG UK&I Chair
Ian Haydock – EPUG UK&I Treasurer
Alan Oliver – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
Martin Büscher – Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate
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
Tom Kistell – Sheffield Hallam University
Laurence Lockton – University of Bath
EPUG-UK&I Committee
EPUG-UK&I Committee
Isabel Benton – University of Leeds
Elly Cope – University of Leeds (Elly was unable to attend the conference)
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)
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