IGeLU 2024 – Program Overview

Last Update: August 13, 2024

(1) Conference Session Titles (9-11 Sept)

Traditional Conference plenary sessions

Community sessions

  1. A first foray into Linked Data: practical aspects of working with BIBFRAME from the viewpoint of three academic libraries
  2. Accessibility service on the library’s discovery platform
  3. AI-Enabled Book Validation and Shelf Management: Effortlessly Identifying Missing, Misplaced, and Lost Books in Your Library Collection
  4. Anchors Away, Alma: Using Alma to Run A Ship’s Library
  5. Archival Material, Manuscripts, and Archival Material/Manuscripts: Making More Sense of Resource Types in Primo VE
  6. Beyond Limits and Differences: Experience Sharing from 3 University Libraries in Hong Kong Adopting Rapido
  7. Boosting Resource Management: using browser extensions in Alma
  8. Cataloguing manuscripts and private archives in Alma
  9. Changing Cataloging Systems: Integrating Alma, WorldCat and the Dutch Union Catalog
  10. Cockpit: a user-friendly central office dashboard
  11. Crafting a Path to Enhanced Open Access Book Discoverability: Strategies at BCU Lausanne
  12. Creating a local Community of Practice across four Melbourne Alma Libraries
  13. Creating a microform resource type assisted by ChatGPT
  14. DDC and Alma: metadata enrichment for librarians and users at the University of Milano (Italy)
  15. Developing a Strategy for Primo Featured Collections and Analyzing Use and Impact
  16. Digging around in the data – the pros and cons of Extended Access
  17. Digging for treasure: contextualising Leganto Analytics
  18. Direct to Downsview: Utilizing Alma Analytics to Manage Transfers to Off-Site Storage
  19. EC Data Catalogue: data discovery with Alma and Primo VE
  20. Empowering the Digital Library through Branding, Marketing, and Communication
  21. Enhancing Serials Metadata with Artificial Intelligence: A Case Study Using ChatGPT and Alma Cloud Apps
  22. Esploro Experience at LIUC University Italy. A case study
  23. Finding Hidden Treasures on Library Shelves
  24. Finding their voices and uncovering our treasures: staff development and ExLibris systems
  25. How to support Office Delivery and complicated logistics at the Royal Danish Library
  26. I Didn’t Know You Could Do That in Alma!
  27. Improving the discoverability of both a Cinema Museum and an Archives & Special Collection in Primo VE
  28. Making hidden treasures more visible with Discovery Collections
  29. Mermaid Whispers and System Insights
  30. Migrating to Alma/Primo VE: The Covenant University Experience
  31. Mini Case Studies: Using Alma Analytics and Data Visualization for Policy Refinement
  32. Moving to Primo VE in a Multilingual Environment
  33. Normalization for Semantic Web with Authority Data in Alma and Primo VE
  34. Oh, I didn’t receive that e-mail! Setting up consortia mail server to send & log e-mails from Almas
  35. ORCID for our Researchers! and Potential impacts!
  36. Ranking Configuration – An iterative approach to surfacing better results
  37. Recasting the Mould – Librarianship of the Future: leveraging Automation, APIs, and AI
  38. Riding the Rialto Wave: Navigating the Currents of Change
  39. Seasoning Esploro to our taste: Capturing Scholarship of Learning Teaching (SoLT)
  40. Shaping the Technical Services Workflow with Analytics
  41. Somewhat COUNTER-intuitive? What we learned re-building our journal evaluation tool in Alma Analytics & wish we knew the first time around
  42. Supporting Cross-Session Searching: Dilex Search and Search Timelines
  43. Surfacing Digital Treasures: a user-led journey towards ‘digibibs’
  44. Tell Us What You Need: Using Alma APIs to Align Resource Sharing and Purchase Requests With Our Workflows
  45. The journey to Primo VE: Navigating challenges and exploring hidden treasures
  46. The Rapido Implementation Game (70 min. session)
  47. To Fit Like a Glove! Best Practice of Involving Alma UX Customer Group in Developing New Circulation Desk Interface
  48. Together but separate – library independence at the University of Oxford
  49. Using Collection Discovery to manage wellbeing and leisure print book collections
  50. Variety vs. Uniformity: Primo VE Views within the swisscovery Network
  51. What is digital accessibility, and what can academic libraries do to be compliant? A seminar presented by the Open University

Posters

  1. Building Bridges with Rialto’s Integrated Library Solutions
  2. Challenges and Solutions in Enhancing Access to the National Repository Library through Helsinki University Library’s Discovery Service
  3. How to format and load user records from a separate campus system into Alma
  4. Towards a seamless user experience across Primo and LibGuides
  5. [Poster TBC]

IGeLU sessions

All these sessions are open to all. Come and join us for an update on the activities of the working groups, sometimes together with Ex Libris product updates.

  1. Aleph Working Group Open Meeting and Aleph Product Update
  2. Alma Working Group Open Meeting
  3. Alma-D Working Group Meeting and Alma-D Product Update
  4. Analytics Community of Practice Open Meeting
  5. Conference First Timers and What is IGeLU!
  6. Consortia Community of Practice Open Meeting
  7. Content Working Group Open Meeting
  8. Esploro Working Group Open Meeting and Esploro Product Conversation (70 min. session)
  9. Leganto Working Group Open Meeting
  10. Linked Open Data Community of Practice Open Meeting
  11. National/State/Corporate Libraries Community of Practice Open Meeting
  12. Primo Working Group Open Meeting
  13. RapidILL Working Group Open Meeting
  14. Rapido Working Group Open Meeting
  15. Rialto Working Group Open Meeting
  16. Rosetta Working Group Open Meeting and Rosetta Product Update
  17. Support Advisory Group Open Meeting

Gold Sponsor sessions

  1. EBSCO: Panorama Analytics -– building library data infrastructure through partnership with academic libraries
  2. Reprints Desk/Research Solutions: Bringing Users Back to the Library
  3. Springshare: Springshare Integration with Ex Libris Tools
  4. Technology from Sage: Your students aren’t little librarians: Showcasing library treasures to prevent being lost at sea, by Adam Barry, Development Manager
  5. Third Iron: Supporting research integrity:  indicating article status from any point of discovery

Ex Libris sessions

Plenary sessions
  1. Innovating Together – Beyond Limits
  2. Beyond Limits: The Library of tomorrow
  3. Beyond Limits: Opening the library’s door to digital collections
  4. Beyond Limits: Building bridges to drive student success
  5. Beyond Limits: Elevating customer experience through service excellence
  6. From Google to ChatGPT – Libraries and the Tale of Two Revolutions
Half plenary sessions
  1. GenAI (Generative Artificial Intelligence) at Clarivate: from research to applications
  2. Library Open Workflows
  3. Empowering Libraries to improve student outcomes
  4. Web of Science Research Intelligence
Breakout sessions
  1. Alma Consortia Management and Administration
  2. Alma Product Conversation
  3. Alma Staff Search new user interface
  4. Beyond Limits: Partnering with Providers for a superior knowledgebase
  5. Community Collaboration: Empowering Libraries in an Open Platform
  6. Data Excellence & Content Updates
  7. Engage your students with campusM Library
  8. Ex Libris Support Services Q&A/Panel discussion
  9. Introducing Collecto
  10. Introducing Specto
  11. Leganto as part of the unified solution
  12. Leganto Product Conversation
  13. Library Analytics: Powered by connections
  14. Maximising Alma’s benefits through Library best practices
  15. Meet your Discovery Research Assistant
  16. Primo Product Conversation
  17. RapidILL and Rapido Product Conversation
  18. Rialto Product Conversation
  19. Rosetta Plus: the next generation
  20. Summon and 360 Product Conversation
  21. Title Matching Fast: A treasure trove of custom insights to enhance your ebook collection
  22. Transforming with technology: Charting a path for managing change
  23. Unlocking connections: how Linked Open Data (LOD) benefits library users
  24. Unlocking potential: an interactive round-table on leveraging Premium Services
  25. Zooming into the Next Discovery Experience

In addition to all those sessions:

  • You will find in the program different joint sessions where Ex Libris staff members co-present with IGeLU officers or community members
  • Ex Libris is also organising their Knowledge Day (see below).

(2) Developers Day Session Titles (12 Sept)

  1. Alma Remote Storage Database Cleanup
  2. Automated student account creation via self-registration form within LibWizard using Alma API and Power Automate
  3. Build an Alma compatible RFID reader using an Arduino
  4. By (Web)hook or by Crook: Making Alma work for Oxford
  5. Drools, or OR-Statement Considered Harmful
  6. Empowering Access: Seamlessly link to the full-text of articles through General Electronic Services using the dynamic capabilities of Power Automate
  7. Integrating RCAABUT with Alma: A Systematic Approach to Resource Curation and Usage Tracking
  8. Leveraging Zurich Zentralbibliothek’s Jupyter Notebooks for Metadata Retrieval and Analysis from Alma
  9. Library Open Workflows
  10. Primo VE – NDE – New customization concept

IGeLU Developers Day will take place at The Black Diamond. The sessions are given in parallel to Ex Libris Knowledge Day.

(3) Ex Libris Knowledge Day Session Titles (12 Sept)

  1. A Spotlight on Functionalities you can Enable to Maximize your Primo VE Experience
  2. Advanced Analytics Functions
  3. Discovery Import Profiles Analysis and Troubleshooter
  4. Discovery Interface Display Logic
  5. Distributed Access to Electronic Resources
  6. Leganto Analytics: Leganto Students Usage Statistics
  7. Linked Data Functionality in Alma
  8. Making the Most of Rapido
  9. Optimize your Leganto User Experience
  10. Understanding the DEDUP and FRBR Processes in Primo VE
  11. Using Logical Collections
  12. XML, XSL, and Email, oh my! A Guide to Customizing Letters in Alma

Ex Libris Knowledge Day will take place at The Black Diamond. The sessions are given in parallel to IGeLU Developers Day.

(4) Organization

Check the event outline at IGeLU 2024 Outline.