How Is That Going to Work?: Part II – Acqusitions Challenges and Opportunities in a Shared ILS

Building on a presentation given at the 2013 Charleston Conference, this article continues the discussion about acquisitions policies, workflows, and consortial collaboration in a next‐generation shared ILS. The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a consortium of 37 public and private academic institutions in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. In January 2013, the Alliance began a two‐year process of migrating all 37 institutions (in 4 cohorts, with a new cohort going live every 6 months) to Ex Libris’s Alma and Primo in order to realize efficiencies and increase collaboration within the consortium. The authors, who represent institutions in the first and third cohorts, offer perspectives on new consortial structures stemming from changing workflows, policy issues to consider from a consortial viewpoint, challenges and opportunities for the new system, partnering with vendors, and ongoing considerations for large‐scale cooperative collection development and assessment

When ERM Met Alma: The Intricacies of Content Management in a Shared Consortia Landscape

In 2013, after nearly two decades of operating in a distributed legacy Integrated Library System (ILS) environment on local servers, the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of public and private academic libraries in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, began a two-year-long process to migrate its 37 members to a shared implementation of Ex Libris\u27s cloud-based Alma library management system (LMS) and Primo discovery interface. Although much has been written on electronic resource management (ERM) functionality at an institution level, little has been written on serials and ERM functionality and workflows within a shared consortial environment. This article discusses the challenges and opportunities of implementing a consortial-based LMS, with particular emphasis on serials and ERM functionality. Key migration issues related to serials control, acquisitions, licensing, administration, cataloging, statistics, and interoperability are examined at the institutional and large-scale networked levels. Benefits and limitations of using a shared consortial cloud-based LMS are explored, and the overall capabilities of the Alma LMS for electronic resource management are reviewed

How Is That Going to Work? Rethinking Acquisitions in a Next-Generation ILS

What do acquisitions policies and workflows look like in next-generation systems? How can institutions leverage automated processes to improve efficiency, and what happens when you also belong to a consortium that is looking to increase collaboration? The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a consortium of 37 public and private academic institutions in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. In January 2012, the Alliance began a 2-year process of migrating all 37 institutions to a shared ILS. Migrating in four cohorts every 6 months, the first cohort of six institutions went live with Ex Libris’s Alma and Primo in June 2013. Representatives from three of the six pioneering libraries discuss topics such as preparing for migration to a new system, changes in workflow, challenges and opportunities for a new system, and what may be coming down the pike for cooperative collection development in the Alliance

How Is That Going to Work? Part II—Acquisitions Challenges and Opportunities in a Shared ILS

Building on a presentation given at the 2013 Charleston Conference, this article continues the discussion about acquisitions policies, workflows, and consortial collaboration in a next‐generation shared ILS. The Orbis Cascade Alliance is a consortium of 37 public and private academic institutions in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. In January 2013, the Alliance began a two‐year process of migrating all 37 institutions (in 4 cohorts, with a new cohort going live every 6 months) to Ex Libris’s Alma and Primo in order to realize efficiencies and increase collaboration within the consortium. The authors, who represent institutions in the first and third cohorts, offer perspectives on new consortial structures stemming from changing workflows, policy issues to consider from a consortial viewpoint, challenges and opportunities for the new system, partnering with vendors, and ongoing considerations for large‐scale cooperative collection development and assessment

Technical Services Work Orders That Really Work

Designing work orders for technical services departments can be daunting to understand and apply on the first try. This presentation provides guidance on creating acquisitions, cataloging, and preservation work orders that facilitate, rather than hamper, interdepartmental workflows. Drawing on experience from 2 institutions, examples of tech services work order models to follow and to avoid will be included

"Les routes de l'esclavage" - Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

Pour comprendre l’ampleur et la complexité historique de l’esclavage, il faut en faire la géographie, qui passe par les routes des différentes traites. C’est cette synthèse que Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch nous présente ici avec rigueur et pédagogie, loin de toute polémique. Elle s’appuie sur son savoir immense d’historienne de l’Afrique, mais aussi sur le riche matériau réuni dans une série de quatre films intitulée Les Routes de l’esclavage, diffusée par la chaîne ARTE, dont elle a été la c..

Structured Collection Notes and Dashboard for Electronic Collections Management

The University of Washington Libraries uses a variety of metadata sources, including the Alma CZ, the OCLC KB, vendor records, and manual cataloging, to provide access to ebook and streaming media collections. Information about electronic collections had previously been recorded in disparate places, including Alma, our intranet, and spreadsheets. By implementing structured collection notes and leveraging these using an Analytics Dashboard, we have created a powerful cross-departmental tool to better see and manage electronic collection details, including metadata source for each collection, knowledge base collection ID, frequency of updates, and detailed notes about collection access and metadata standards. Additional dashboard pages for quality control facilitate screening for known metadata issues and spotting portfolios that might need attention. Finally, the dashboard is also drillable to the portfolio level, providing details for electronic resource management and troubleshooting