Ex Libris®, a ProQuest company, has announced that the University of Richmond has selected the Ex Libris Alma® library services platform and Ex Libris Primo® discovery and delivery solution. This combination will enable the university to scale its electronic resource management to meet the needs of its undergraduate and research-focused patrons.
The University of Richmond is a liberal arts college serving mostly undergraduates, with a curriculum that emphasizes rigorous undergraduate research and collaboration with teaching faculty. The university’s library system consists of the Boatwright Memorial Library (the campus’s main library), Parsons Music Library, and William Taylor Muse Law Library. In addition to supporting the faculty’s scholarly activities, the libraries aim to provide collections and services at the level of a research institution, though with the budget and staff of a liberal arts college.
To meet these high expectations, the university plans to take advantage of the Alma platform’s efficiency optimisations to streamline workflows and improve collaboration. By means of the unified capabilities of the Alma and Primo integration, the university will consolidate its various digital collections to make them all discoverable through a single interface.
Through the Primo customisation options, the libraries will be able to finely tune and optimize the front-end user experience for all categories of users, tailored to their discipline or status (for example, incoming freshmen or senior faculty members). And while the three libraries will all use the Primo search and discovery features, the university will configure different views and search settings for each of the campus libraries.
The University of Richmond libraries will also rely on the integrated Alma workflows, external integrations, and Ex Libris Community Zone to eliminate duplication of effort. In this way, time and resources can be devoted to solving local problems, maintaining the accuracy of unique, locally generated data, and working on exciting new initiatives like linked data enhancements and enhanced integration of the digital collections.
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