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.
We hope you are all keeping well and apologies for the slightly later than usual update regarding this year’s AGM event taking place on Tuesday 23rd May, remotely via Zoom.
The theme of this event is ‘Maximizing Productivity and Efficiency: Doing More with Less’, which is reflected in the range of talks taking place throughout the day, both from Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate, and from colleagues within our EPUG-UKI community.
See the event programme below (subject to change):
There is an opportunity to submit questions to Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate. Please do this by Friday 12th May 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.
Don’t forget to join us on Twitter via our handle @epug_uki or hashtag #epuguki.
Stephen Harding EPUG-UKI Secretary, on behalf of the Committee
We are so sorry for the delay in getting dates to you for EPUG-UKI events this year.
We’ve had some issues with booking the British Library for the Spring AGM so we have made the hard decision to run this event virtually.
We know how much you value the opportunity to meet with colleagues face to face so we hope to have additional in person events throughout the year.
Virtual AGM – Tuesday May 23rd – please hold the date – we already have some great sessions lined up. Schedule to be confirmed soon.
Hybrid Autumn Conference in October – Hopefully at the British Library – dates to be confirmed. If you have any topics to share please get in touch.
In person themed days – We have had these in the past focussing on Analytics, Content, Leganto, Resource Sharing. For those who have not attended it’s a chance to concentrate on one module of one product.
Suggestions which have come via the Thursday call are: Acquisitions; Content (specifically Community Zone) we would welcome any offers of a venue and help to arrange. ExLibris product specialists would be invited to attend. The format is usually a mixture of talks, demos and discussions led by the needs of the attendees.
If you have any questions or suggestions for any EPUG-UKI events or how EPUG-UKI works please do let us know.
It was great to see so many of you at IGeLU2022 in Cardiff. If you attended the conference you will/should have received a link and instructions on how to access the recordings. If you were not at the conference and have an IGeLU membership you can use your member’s login to access. IGeLU 2022 Presentations – IGeLU
If you have any feedback about the conference please send it on. You should have received in invitation to complete a survey.
EPUG-UKI meeting held during IGeLU2022 – had a few follow up actions:
Documentation – We need to provide specific examples of the difficulties we are having with documentation . Ex Libris are very willing to discuss them with us. We could ask Ex Libris documentation team to join us on one of the Thursday calls to go over issues. Amanda has setup a document for capturing use cases. Could you please add details to the sheet on Google Docs (refer to the email update sent on 04/11/22 for the link).
New Release Testing – We talked about testing new releases and agreed it would be good to share approaches. Could potentially discuss at the next Monthly Call.
Content – ExLibris content staff joined the meeting and offered to give us another export of UKI calls relating to Content so we could continue to prioritise. We do have an EPUG content mail list for discussion – and there is a content Basecamp. Do we want to ask for an up to date list?
Resource Sharing – we discussed the setup for Resource Sharing, RapidILL etc and how complex it can be – just a reminder there is a Basecamp if you are interested and we continue to share knowledge with each other. Let us know if you need an invite.
Other EPUG-UKI news
EPUG-UKI Committee – we’re pleased to welcome two new ordinary members onto the committee. Abbie Ball from Plymouth and Sally Smith from Surrey. Welcome both.
EPUG-UKI meetings2023– we usually have two a year – the committee are planning next year’s sessions. Physical only or hybrid. Hybrid will come at a cost so we’re working out options. We’re planning events in Spring and Autumn as usual.
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.
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 – 18th 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
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