In order to keep up with important information related directly with Alma, it is vital you have the “Notifications” widget installed on your Alma dashboard. To do this, log into Alma. Then, click on the + sign over to the right of your name: It will bring up a new window, asking you which widgets you would like to install: Click the box next to “Notifications”: Then click the “x” in the top right corner of the “Manage Widgets” box to close it: Then voila! You are receiving notifications: This box will be used for informing the staff of important…Read more Alma: Notifications Widget
Category: ILS
Recent additions to the ILS Documentation site
The following are some of the newest contributions to the ILS Documentation website: Laptop Repair Work orders replacing laptop repair pseudo-patron VUnetID should be used for authentication when creating Alma accounts for Alumni What notices are being sent out to library users? Please go to the site to view all of the posts: ILS Documentation
What has LTDS been doing the week of 8/31-9/6
Alma/Primo (Jamen, Nancy, Tao) * Replaced Alumni IDs with Alt-IDs (from Sirsi) * Continued to work on clean-up projects including the duplicate charges * Configure Sandbox access * Continue working on notification letters Desktop/Application support (Judy, Matt, Nancy, Jamen) * Deployed a few new laptops * Processed new and released ETD’s/troubleshoot ETD’s * Ordered equipment, computers and software * Troubleshooting hardware issues * Worked with VUIT on increasing resources to improve performance Digital Collections (Nathan, Judy, Scott) * DIL got up to full speed with a working plan for scanning * Continued to upload items into the system * Scanned…Read more What has LTDS been doing the week of 8/31-9/6
What happens with my links to books and searches in Alma?
I have links to books and searches in Acorn. What happens when we migrate from Acorn and DiscoverLibrary? Many people have created links using the options available at http://acorn.library.vanderbilt.edu/help/ to use in training materials as well as permalinks from DiscoverLibrary and to FindIt@VU (SFX) resources. LTDS has created several redirects that will allow these links to continue to work after we go live with Alma/Primo. We believe that these redirects will handle the majority of links to resources. However, if you encounter a broken link please submit an INFORM and we can review the issue. We have attempted to simulate…Read more What happens with my links to books and searches in Alma?
Technical Freeze Starts This Weekend – So What Can I Do??
What is going to happen this weekend? What will I be able to do? What can be done during the Technical Services freeze? These are all valid and reasonable questions, which I will try to address in this post. No fear, though – you will still be able to work! Starting this weekend (June 22/23), as soon as Mary Ellen completes the fiscal year roll over (after which she will notify myself), I will launch several scripts on the Acorn server in order to do the full extract of our Symphony data. This is a server-load intensive process and requires…Read more Technical Freeze Starts This Weekend – So What Can I Do??
Post conference report for ELUNA 2018
Ex Libris User group North America (ELUNA) 2018 conference was held at Spokane, WA during May 1st to May 5th, 2018. here are some takeaways from me. General Impression: The conference was well organized, in addition to a nice conference program booklet, all presentation slides are made available to attendee in Sched; it was well attended, this is the first time more than 1000+ people attended the conference. It is a friendly and enthusiastic community, no matter whom you met, whether they are in the process of migration, a newly migrated customers, or an experienced users, everyone is willing to…Read more Post conference report for ELUNA 2018
Learn more about Alma
Curious about how other libraries are using Alma, Primo, and Leganto? The Ex LIbris User group of North America (ELUNA) provides list serves for each of the products. ALMA (staff interface): https://el-una.org/about/mailing-lists/alma-mailing-lists/ Leganto : https://el-una.org/about/mailing-lists/leganto-email-list/ Primo (public interface): https://el-una.org/about/mailing-lists/primo-email-list/
What are they talking about?
Are you hearing discussions about Alma and Primo and think that people are speaking a completely new language? Well, they are! But help in understanding it is just a click away. ExLibris has an excellent glossary on their Knowledge Center site here: Alma Glossary You can go to a particular term and see a definition and then click on links at the end to see more detailed information. Give it a try! Look up “Fulfillment”, “Community Zone” or “Metadata editor”. Or get really crazy and look up “Selective package”! Bookmark the link to the glossary and have fun learning the…Read more What are they talking about?
2017 Library Checkouts Overview
In Year 2017, the library checked out 124,570 items to faculty, graduate students, undergrads, and Vanderbilt community, that’s 341 items a day! Most checked out titles The most checked-out individual titles in 2017 are: HD30.22 .F76 2016, in Management Library, Managerial economics : a problem solving approach, checked out 151 times during the year. Come really close is ‘QD415 .V65 2016’ in science library, Fundamentals of biochemistry : life at the molecular level checked out 148 times; Third one is ‘QD253.2 .K55 2015’, also in science library, Organic chemistry, checked out 111 times during the year. Fourth one: HD58.6 .N45…Read more 2017 Library Checkouts Overview