Primo Central Video

Nice little video about Primo Central (although someone's been watching too many Commoncraft videos!)

EPUG-UKI Meeting 16th March

Day started with the AGM which included dates for future meetings:

- EPUG-UKI conference - 1-2 Nov - based on previous SFX/ Metalib day school but will include all products
- EPUG-UKI meetings: 28 or 29 March 2011 and October 2011

Ex Libris update
Mainly updating on new customers e.g. Coventry Uni - Primo; Oxford Uni - Aleph; Sheffield Uni - Verde; Plymouth Uni, Nottingham Uni, Liverpool Uni, Swansea Uni, Cambridge Uni - bX.

Metalib/ SFX strand
- Problems with Full Text / Peer Review Indicator in Metalib - Ex Libris can't provide list of which databases it works with / doesn't work with.
- Knowledgebase working group - working to get NESLI etc to include condition of updating OpenURL providers in licences. Also working on updating existing NESLI targets e.g. Science Direct NESLI target to be added. Will be emailing info about progress and also looking for help with starting on smaller publishers.

- Ex Libris update
SFX 4 - release July 2010. Upgrade docs currently being prepared
Primo Central - Beta testing from end of March, available Q3 2010. Vanderbilt Uni have gone live with it. EL can't publish list of publishers whose content is included but Account Manager should be able to provide details. They will also be able to do a match on your holdings.

URM
Started with general presentation on URM from EL:
- will manage all types of materials & workflows
- customisable using e.g. Open Platform, X-server
- SaaS
- integrate with other parts of institution e.g. finance
- using data where it is e.g. not pulling into system

Building on Rosetta infrastructure (which went live in 2008)

Roadmap:
2010 - complete requirements gathering
Mid 2011 - beta version to beta partners
Mid 2012 - general release although won't have all functionality of all systems
End 2012 - first live systems

Also presentations from members of URM focus groups - looking at specific bits of functionality in their areas e.g. Circulation and Fulfilment group looking at Digitisation workflow from making request through to acquisition, Selection & Acquisition looked at selection tools, usage stats. General opinion is that the groups are working and are feeding into the EL development of URM.

SFX/ Metalib Day School - 20 Oct 09

As with last year's day school this was a really interesting and useful day, especially being able to speak to people who actually work on the systems and see what other institutions are doing.

Metasearch through Xerxes (Graham Seaman - RHU)

RHU have implemented Xerxes on top of Metalib to provide a improved user interface following negative feedback from the NSS. Set up had been fairly straightforward - at RHU it was done over one summer and knowledge of PHP and XSLT was needed. No formal feedback from users as yet but informal feedback suggests users like the new interface (and although not promoted the old Metalib interface can still be accessed). I think it's a definite improvement on the current Metalib interface but as someone in the audience pointed out - why are we having to user Xerxes to do this, why don't Ex Libris improve the Metalib interface? You can see the RHU implementation at http://xerxes.rhul.ac.uk/