1 / 9

Alma@LIBISnet

Alma@LIBISnet. Bart Peeters. Head of operations @ LIBIS. IGeLU Oxford Sep 2014. Agenda. Why Alma? Where are we? Highs &Lows. Alma@LIBISnet. Why Alma. LIBIS is service provider for libraries, archives and musea. For libraries we operate 3 networks

miracle
Download Presentation

Alma@LIBISnet

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Alma@LIBISnet Bart Peeters Head of operations @ LIBIS IGeLU Oxford Sep 2014

  2. Agenda • Why Alma? • Where are we? • Highs &Lows Alma@LIBISnet

  3. Why Alma • LIBIS is service provider for libraries, archives and musea. For libraries we operate 3 networks • LIBISnet (KU Leuven, Colleges, National Bank of Belgium, …) • PBS (public library network of province Vlaams-Brabant) • OpenVlacc (central catalogue for Flanders) • Experience with library software • => LIBIS became Alma development partner • To consolidate and streamline workflows and the backoffice softwares. Alma@LIBISnet

  4. Where are we? • We just went live on July 15 & August 5 2014 • In 2 clusters • We have 33 Alma institutions live (31 institutions + a Network Zone institution and a sandbox) • 2009: development partner Testing … testing … testing • 2012: change management sessions with library management team of KU Leuven • 2013: Network Zone, train-the-trainer, ILL workshop, testconversion, recruitment of Alma experts, … Alma@LIBISnet

  5. Where are we? • 2014: • March-April: workshops & demo’s, preparing documentation • May-June: training by the “Alma experts” • 400 librarians • About 30 sessions (most of them hands on) • July – August: final migration in 2 clusters • August – September: 10 “follow up” sessions and extra training • September-October: new start up working groups Alma@LIBISnet

  6. Where are we? • We try to settle down at the moment … NOT • 3 Alma certified administrators … more to come • 50 calls at hotline • 500 issues in the helpdesk (80% solved) • 25% Resource Management • 20% Acquisitions • 25% Fulfillment • 15% Primo • 15% Other (user management, printing, …) • STP + list • Upcoming mergers of Alma institutions … • Reference visits • … Alma@LIBISnet

  7. Highs & Lows • Lows • Migration • Only one real test migration • Data migrated as is • Vendors migrated only once (at test migration) • Network Zone functionality too limited at the moment • Performance • Different teams/people: implementation, development, migration teams • STP + list Alma@LIBISnet

  8. Highs & Lows • Highs • Alma Analytics • Search (persistent search box, advanced search) • For librarians: simple tools/interface to run jobs • Fulfillment: • Follow up of reservations • Fulfillment configuration utility • It’s getting better every month Alma@LIBISnet

  9. Thank you Questions? Contact us: LIBIS  54, W. de Croylaan PB 5592 B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee) Belgium 016 32 22 66 info@libis.be - bart.peeters@libis.kuleuven.be  http://www.libis.be

More Related