Reimagining Alma Authorities
Presenters
- Lili Daie Ex Libris / Clarivate
The Alma product team is planning many enhancements and improvements for working with Authority records in Alma in the coming years, and the advice of the Alma Authorities’ Focus Group, a group of users and authority experts, is key in making, prioritising, and designing these improvements. Come and hear about our work with the Focus Group and our plans to take Alma’s Authorities’ capabilities to the next level.
Alma functionalities as tools to facilitate changing cataloguing practices
Presenters
- Diederik Lanoye KU Leuven LIBIS
The implementation of PrimoVE in the architecture of the LIBISnet consortium (2021-2022) posed quite a few challenges to our network where cataloguing had increasingly built on local practices that often deviated from the MARC21 standard. Cataloguers were used to 1-key solutions and heavy normalisation. Changing this to a practice where key values must be entered or checked in several places in the record would make cataloguing more complex, less efficient and – errare humanum est – less consistent.
Using Alma functionalities such as validation exceptions, normalization on save and record enhancements, a solution was developed allows the cataloguer to quickly make a basic choice by entering a local ‘master key’ but leaves execution in the record to the system. This same solution is also very useful to ensure consistency and efficiency in common workflows such as copy cataloguing and duplication records to register both physical and electronic versions of a document.
swisscovery’s usability, what a discovery!
Presenters
- Aronne Watkins SLSP (Swiss Library Service Platform)
- Jürgen Küssow SLSP (Swiss Library Service Platform)
How about an adventure into the unknown? End-users are quite elusive and it’s not easy to pinpoint their thoughts. Dive into their relationship with Primo VE! This session will present findings from a usability study that was carried out on swisscovery, the Swiss search portal for higher education. The presented study is composed of different parts (a heuristic evaluation, a quantitative survey, usability tests and interviews). Every part provides unexpected findings and suggests, amongst many other results, that end-users choose diverse paths when searching and that they also have very diverse expectations. Together, we will also look at end-users’ ratings and feelings on key features, such as the search functionality, display of results, access to e-resources and physical materials. Come and discover the study’s conclusions and our works to further enhance usability.
Integrating ILL Systems and Workflows by Rapido
Presenters
- Jeff Liu Lingnan University
Goodbye to the old ILL system and workflows that ran for 20 years. The presenter of this session will describe the decision and the Rapido implementation process of Lingnan University Library with a consortium partner, how this changes our staff and user workflow on the overall resources sharing and interlibrary loan requests, and how it fulfils our expectations.
Rapido Product Update
Presenters
- Judith Fraenkel Ex Libris / Clarivate
Join this session to learn about the latest on Rapido, its developments, the community, and the roadmap.