Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced a new collaboration with YBP Library Services (YBP) to offer a new, streamlined acquisition process to academic and research libraries that use the Ex Libris Alma and YBP GOBI3 (Global Online Bibliographic Information) platforms. YBP is the academic division of Baker & Taylor and the leading provider of content-management services for libraries. In addition, the collaboration will enable libraries to reduce costs associated with acquisitions.
Leveraging Alma’s open architecture, the first deliverable of this project will automatically update Alma in real time with all print and electronic orders placed via the GOBI3 platform. As a result, librarians will be spared the task of replicating these transactions in the Alma interface. Ex Libris and YBP plan to release this first deliverable in the coming months.
YBP Library Services, a Baker & Taylor company, provides print and digital content, supporting collection management and technical services to academic, research and special libraries around the world. GOBI3, YBP's acquisition and collection development interface, provides access to more than 10 million titles.
