IGeLU 2025

Conference

Since 2018, the Swiss Library Network Renouvaud has developed tools to integrate over 50 libraries into its network, enabling the import of diverse data types, including bibliographic metadata as well as holdings and item records, related to commercial print and multimedia documents, student theses, grey literature, and periodical articles. A major challenge has been importing metadata into Alma in MARC21 format and in accordance with Renouvaud cataloguing rules, from various ILS or in-house systems—often limited to CSV exports—as well as managing deduplication during the import process.

In this presentation, we will showcase the solutions created, including software specifically designed for importing metadata of commercial documents, and custom Python scripts that work with Alma's REST APIs. These scripts can be reused even by non-developers, offering practical, scalable solutions to simplify your library’s data imports and integration workflows.

Conference theme: Celebrating 20 years of community
Migration / Implementation
Practical Applications

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