ELUNA 2012Conference Highlights

Lena ZentallMargery TibbettsMay 29, 2012

Conference stats Ex Libris Users Group of North America,

met May 8-11, 2012 in Salt Lake City 492 attendees from 11 countries (1000+

libraries are members of ELUNA)

Future Conference sites Next year’s conference site 2013: Georgia

Atlanta or Athens - TBD

2014 conference in Montreal Canada US citizens will need passports

192.35.216.225 to 192.35.216.254

Subscriber numbers per ExLibris product• SFX – 2385 customers (their biggest seller)• Aleph/Voyager – 2325• bX – 1108• Primo – 933 (according to salesman: more

Primo customers than all their competitors combined) - discovery interface

• Verde – 229 (being rolled into Alma eventually)

• Alma – 70+ institutions (general release in 2013 – currently working with development partners)

Theme: Integrated servicesALMA

Streamlining workflow in one place and having a dynamic resource – depending on your role.

Shared community resources (community zone). This is where Harvard is putting their open metadata. Shared catalog for Alma customers: loading bib data from LC, British Library, Harvard catalog.

Advisory group (including Karen Coyle) Next step: define cataloging standards

Professional services (tackling change management – rethink workflow and processes, get baselines and workflow up front – even a year ahead)

Theme: Fulfillment Just in Time Problem statement:

Can’t afford to acquire everything or catalog everything but users want everything.

Solution: Institutions should be focused on their

local content.

New service for Primo/SFX Copyright Clearance Center Get it Now

Service just in time article delivery

Get It Now publishers

SFX Update 88% customers are on SFX version 4 (4% in

progress) SFX version 4.3 coming in June 2012

(ebooks!)

SFX-Discuss-l is for the larger SFX community (ELUNA)

SFX-DISCUSS-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU

SFX Knowledgebase• Adding approximately 500 targets a year

• Current statistics 3000 targets 2.1 million objects 4.4 million in object portfolios.

SFX KnowledgeBase challenges• It’s a major ongoing struggle to get updates

from publishers• SFX Product Working Group is working with

KB group (headed by Ron Lozinsky) to develop language for dealing the offending vendors

• SFX Product Working Group will target certain vendors (list unknown)

• UC libraries are encouraged to put language in agreements or bring this up as an issue at renewal time

SFX e-books Coming in SP 4.3 (sometime in June) Search not browse Introduces new software package to SFX

SOLR CDL will create in development

ucelinks-stage.cdlib.org Similar look and feel as e-journal A-Z lists

The SFX eBook search interface

Feature to expose the library’s eBook collection

Enables search by Title Author ISBN Vendor

URL: http://<server>:<port>/<instance>/azbook

(this and next slide courtesty of ExLibris)

UC-eLinks admin liaisons Discuss with campus stakeholders

Determine e-book targets to include Detemine look and feel

One page with journal and books tab Two pages

Determine release date NOT all campuses on the same date please

Same guidelines as e-journal A-Z lists Limited customization (header/footer)

KBUpdate reports ExLibris will be changing the maintenance

scripts so more than 3 weeks of data is retained

Two sessions (LANL and MIT)

How to manage weekly reports?

HTML vs TXT reports

LANL Hints Use TXT reports

Maintains separate spreadsheets by active targets for each KBUpdate Reorder information for ease of use (ie thresholds Add notes when maintaining KB

Always look at Delete Object Portfolio Especially for pick and choose targets

LANL Troublespots

Lines blurring between Open Access and licensed content

Multiple targets for the title Global threshold closed

What happened to the title?

MIT approach Library staff want to view KBUpdate

reports as EXCEL not text Don’t always remember to protect the OBJID

when converting from txt to xls

MIT Wrote PERL scripts to do conversion

Insert object type (Book; Journal; etc) Color code to highlight changes

Different conversion rules for New; Changed and Deleted reports

Will share scripts via EL Commons

CDL approach ? What can the CDL do to help the campuses

deal with the weekly KBUpdate reports?

Q&AQ: Have any campuses activated ebooks in UC-eLinks? A: Yes, including CDL who has activated all packages we license including IEEE, Springer, Wiley.

Q: Who needs to be involved in rolling out the new ebook search on campuses? A: campus e-resource team will select ebook packages to include (e.g., ILL staff, reference librarians, e-resource librarians, public service staff). Library webmaster will determine where the search lives on the library website. CDL will work with Ellen Meltzer and the UC-eLinks project team to make sure the word gets out to the UC-eLinks liaisons and other campus stakeholders.