The changing Resource Sharing landscape
Presenters
- Katie Birch, Ex Libris / Clarivate
When library doors closed due to the pandemic, resource sharing took centre stage and for many libraries, became a critical service offering. This session will explore the importance of collaboration, the changing nature of library users, sustainability, and collection development.
Authority linking with identifiers: lessons learned on a major configuration change
Presenters
- Michael Hertig, BCU Lausanne
Authority control is central to clean and structured bibliographic metadata. Alma offers two strategies for authority linking: character strings and identifiers.
While in the process of changing its main authority vocabulary, the Swiss Renouvaud consortium also decided to modify this basic feature and adopt the ID linking strategy. The latter offers stronger links, more accurate update of bibliographic headings, and is by and large more promising when it comes to future developments towards linked open data.
Thanks to a fruitful collaboration with Ex Libris Premium Consulting Service, Renouvaud could address this challenge. The consortium also took advantage of this major change in configuration to implement a custom tool for authority control.
In this presentation, we will introduce the context of the project, describe the steps needed as well as the difficulties encountered. Finally, we will review the outcome and the advantages of the new configuration.
A bookmarklet based application to interface the Alma Metadata Editor with the IdRef authority Web application
Presenters
- Laurence Richelle, University of Liège
- François Renaville, University of Liège
- Robert De Groof, University of Liège
- Marie Goukens, University of Liège
ULiège Library has been working with IdRef French authority file for name and subject access since 2021. In order to improve the cataloguing workflow, we searched for a way to integrate the Alma MDE with the IdRef search and cataloguing Web application. The developed bookmarklet based application allows cataloguers to launch a search in the IdRef Web application from a bibliographic Marc21 record opened for editing in the Alma MDE, and to import the retrieved authorized form, its identifier, and URI in the record. It makes it also possible for cataloguers to easily create new authority records in the IdRef Web application by pre-filling the input fields with the metadata from the record in Alma. Moreover, cataloguers can submit requests for authority record creation, modification, or deduplication. Finally, moving to IdRef led us to change the linking method from text matching to ID matching, employing a large number of batch alignment tasks.
From Fee to Free: How our library moved from a paid to a free ILL service
Presenter
- Fabienne Prosmans, University of Liège
- François Renaville, University of Liège
Since summer 2022, our interlibrary loan service has become free of charge for ULiège students, faculty, and staff members. A feasibility study, started in 2019, was completed 3 years later. In March 2020, because of COVID-19, ILL service had become temporarily free for the ULiège community. This was a great opportunity for a real two-year pilot phase. Thanks to the length of the pilot, solid statistics and usage data were obtained and the ILL operators had two years’ experience in a free context. Additionally, changes in our workflows such as a new subscription to RapidILL, peer-to-peer resource sharing between Alma institutions and more automation in some tasks have reduced our ILL charges. As a result of the feasibility study, the two-year pilot, some changes in our workflows, and based on reactions of users and ILL staff, it was decided to keep a free ILL service for the ULiège community, with some safeguards to prevent abuses and avoid uncontrolled costs.
Where the Library and student success meet: Introducing the campusM library app
Presenter
- Yaara Galili, Ex Libris / Clarivate