Please find below the IGeLU 2019 Conference, Developers' Day plus Ex Libris Knowledge Day Programme, in a slightly abbreviated form. The final and full version of the programme will be published in the IGeLU Conference App available from Apple Store & Google Play. The Conference Planning Committee reserves the right to make last minute alterations to the schedule where necessary.
Grappling with PQ Ebook Central Integration in Alma
Conference or Developers' Day
Conference
Abstract
The PQ Ebook Central Integration profile was first made available in Alma in early 2018. This was an attractive functionality for Charles Sturt University as the university has a huge collection (almost 45,000 titles as of May 2019). Running this would mean getting rid of the monthly manual updates for deleting and updating titles in the collection. However, testing in Sandbox was unsuccessful for almost a year as the job never finished properly. The case raised with ExLibris went to development many times with the assurance that it would be fixed in the next monthly release. Finally, it was fixed for us in Sandbox in March 2019. After thorough testing in Sandbox, this was moved to production but it was not a plain sailing. It had its issues that we slowly started to unfold. At the time of writing this, we are in regular contact with ExLibris, Director of Product Management and Proquest to deal with these issues and fine tune the integration. I will go through the journey with you.
Main Topic
Content (KB, Index, Ulrichsweb)
Presenters
Roshan Thapa, Charles Sturt University
Presenter's job title
Coordinator, Library Discovery Services & Fulfilment
Co-Presenters
Maribel Alvarado, Moderator, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Co-presenter's job title
Head, Library systems and support area