Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that Montana's Treasure State Academic Information & Library Services (TRAILS) consortium has selected the Ex Libris Alma® resource management solution.
The 16‑member consortium of academic libraries decided to adopt Alma as a common, shared platform across the state following an earlier adoption of the Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution by the University of Montana, Montana State University, and the Outreach Montana: Networked Information (OMNI) group.
The TRAILS consortium sought a solution that would increase staff efficiency by unifying workflows and reorganizing resources to have the greatest impact. Further requirements were a native cloud-based system to help offset administration and energy costs, a discovery environment that would be flexible enough for large libraries to customize and powerful enough to provide excellent patron services out of the box, a rich analytics environment, and a vendor with a proven record of partnering with academic institutions. With the Alma resource management platform, the consortium will gain all of these features, offering member libraries benefits on many levels, thanks to the sharing of skills and resources.
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