Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées has chosen the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform and Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution to manage and expose its expanding collections. The Ex Libris solutions will replace the SirsiDynix Horizon™ integrated library system, in use since 1995.
The Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées is in charge of managing the Academy of Toulouse (previously the Academy of the Midi-Pyrénées region) academic library network. Starting in the mid-1990s, this network saw substantial growth in the demand for and use of electronic resources. This change in the nature of its collections and services originally led the network to acquire additional software components to manage electronic and digital resources and make them discoverable, resulting in a siloed system with redundant workflows.
In this context and in partnership with l'Agence bibliographique française de l'enseignement supérieur (ABES) and eight other higher education institutions (Université de Bordeaux Service de coopération documentaire, Cité des sciences et de l'Industrie Universcience, Université de Clermont-Ferrand Blaise Pascal, Université du Havre, Université de Lille 3, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, BIU de Montpellier, and Université Paris-Descartes), the Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées began a thorough evaluation of solutions, concluding with the selection of Alma and Primo to unify both the management of the libraries and access to their collections.
In addition, the libraries will benefit from more efficient and coherent analytics regarding their use of resources and the ability to better integrate their library services platform with their wider campus systems.
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