University of the Cumberlands (UC) has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform and Primo for search and discovery.
University of the Cumberlands seeks to shape students throughout the Appalachian region. Cumberlands claims to be one of the largest and fastest growing universities in the US and places a strong focus on affordable learning, including free textbooks for traditional undergraduate students.
The library will use Alma and Primo to manage and provide access to all its physical and electronic resources as well as discipline-specific research guides that list highly relevant electronic resources. The library has risen to the challenge of supporting remote, virtual students by acquiring electronic resources including e-books, e-journals, streaming media (video and music), and other electronic resources available for academic research. Primo will provide a reliable and seamless patron resource sharing user experience by linking to interlibrary loan request forms and provide valuable insight into usage data.
In addition to faculty and staff, most of the university’s students learn online, which means it is critical to support remote users at any time. Alma is cloud-based and receives monthly updates, so that Cumberlands can depend on a system that is always up to date with new features, constantly patched and secure, and has a system infrastructure that is elastic enough to scale to the growing number of users as well as handle sudden spikes in usage.
Cumberlands is also looking forward to improving ease of access for faculty and staff, resolving linking issues to existing resources, creating better efficiency for interlibrary loan and digitisation requests, and offering better menu options to link to other library services.
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