Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library management service and Primo® discovery and delivery solution to manage and provide access to the Health Sciences Library's large collection of electronic and physical materials. The library will be migrating from Innovative Millennium.
Key to the university's choice was the cloud-based, multitenant nature of the Alma service as well as improvements in the management and discovery of electronic and physical resources enabled by the combination of Alma and Primo. The Health Sciences Library will benefit from reports that help librarians analyse collections and manage them with greater efficiency. In addition, the rich Alma interfaces and APIs will facilitate the solution's integration with third-party systems and will enable the library to expand its services.
According to Melissa De Santis, director of the CU Anschutz Health Sciences Library, the cloud-based solution will eliminate daily manual operations on local systems and thus free up library IT staffers for other tasks. Alma's support of numerous open standards, 'push' notifications that display librarians' task lists, user-friendly reports, and the Alma Metadata Editor, which will streamline cataloguing, are equally important to the Library. The patron-driven acquisition (PDA) process and integrated discovery of both physical and electronic items, provided by Primo, will help the Library better meet the needs of faculty and students.
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