Track Descriptions

 Analytics | Content | Demonstrations | Digital Initiatives | Discovery | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Migration/Implementation | Practical Applications | Strategy

The links below direct to the ELUNA Document Repository where you can view an abstract, and if you’re an ELUNA member, the presentation slides.

Analytics

Description

How are you using Analytics to discover new insights, tell a story, or improve workflows at your institution? Do you have innovative strategies for using Analytics that you’d like to share with the ELUNA community? Sessions in the Analytics track cover the analytics features in any of Ex Libris’ products, such as Alma, Primo, Primo VE, Summon, or Leganto.

Example Past Sessions

• • Collection Analysis Best Practices within Alma Analytics.
  • Marketing Book Collections: Creating Digital Displays Using Alma Analytics
  • Using the Alma Analytics API to Visualize Your Data with Google Charts and Tableau
  • Library Decisions with Alma Analytics
  • Alma Analytics: Creating Useful Dashboards

Content

Description

The Content track welcomes anything related to the management and use of the content in Alma, SFX, Intota/360Link, Primo and Summon, such as collection choice, activation, coverage, maintenance, provider collaboration, and impacts of metadata on discovery and delivery.

Example Past Sessions

• • Summer 2018 Project Review: PCI’s Open Access Collections for Community and Technical Colleges
  • Clarifying the Choices: E-Resource Metadata Strategies & Criteria
  • Add Institutional Repository Content to Primo: A How-to Guide

Demonstrations

Description

Sessions with the purpose of providing a practical overview or showcasing specific features of any Ex Libris product or other products in conjunction with Ex Libris products.

Example Past Sessions

• • Using Macro Express with Alma
  • A Well-Aimed Spear is Worth Three: Targeted Messages Using Alma Letters and Notifications
  • Grima: Whispering in Alma’s Ear Using APIs

Digital Initiatives

Description

Sessions in this track are related to digital projects and programs including digitization workflows, digital preservation, born-digital records, access to digital collections, and digital asset management. Applicable Ex Libris products include Rosetta and Alma-D.

Example Past Sessions

• • Implementing Rosetta After Alma-D, or, the Alma-Rosetta Integration Backwards
  • Preserving Access to Your Digital Content Over Time
  • Rosetta Initiatives at Binghamton University Libraries
  • Creative Solutions to Complex Metadata in Rosetta Implementation
  • Discovering Archives: OAI Integration of ArchivesSpace with Primo

Discovery

Description

Sessions that address the broad topic of discovery and might include: customization and configurations of the user interface; efficiency and accuracy of searching mechanisms; behavior, usability, and accessibility studies; and implications related to fairness and access. These sessions will cover products Primo, Primo VE, Summon, or any combination thereof (e.g. Primo vs. Summon; Primo VE differences from Primo, etc.)

Example Past Sessions

• • Discovery Layer Decisions and Configurations: A Panel Discussion
  • What Analytics Tell Us about Facet Use
  • Now I Get It! Customizing and Simplifying the Get It Menu in Alma/Primo.
  • Primo: Towards a Socially Just Search System
  • Summon, serendipity and scholarly success: Improving the user experience with discovery
  • Increasing Search Results: Using Zero Search Results & JavaScript to Reframe Searches
  • Delivery in Discovery: Embedding Ares and ILLiad into Primo
  • Primo Usability with Diverse Populations in Mind

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Description

Sessions that address DEI initiatives as they relate to delivery of library services and how Ex Libris products have been to used to aid in these initiatives. Any Ex Libris product may be applicable; general sessions are also encouraged.

Example Past Sessions

• • Changing the Name of the Tulsa Race Riot to Tulsa Race Massacre in LCSH
  • Unsettling Authorities in Alma and Primo

Migration/Implementation

Description

Sessions in the Migration/Implementation track tell the stories of the challenges and lessons learned from implementing any Ex Libris product at your institution.

Example Past Sessions

• • From Server to the Cloud: Sharing Our Alma Experiences Post-Migration
  • Leganto: The University of Minnesota Way, or, How to Remain Sane During Multiple System Implementations
  • Shifting Priorities: Preparing to Migrate to Alma/Primo
  • Implementation Minus 40 Days: Considered Pragmatism Under Pressure
  • VCCS Aleph to Alma Migration Challenges
  • Reflections on Rosetta: One Year After Implementation
  • Unknown Unknowns: Things We Wish We Knew about Primo VE before Going Live

Practical Applications

Description

Sessions in the Practical Applications track showcase how Ex Libris products can be used to implement or improve workflows at your institution. Topics can range from broad introductions to specific scenarios and situations.

Example Past Sessions

• • Identifying the Source of Records in Discovery and Troubleshooting Using Alma and Primo
  • User Purge in Alma at Chattanooga State Community College
  • Work Orders in Alma
  • Harnessing the Power of Collections: Building and Highlighting Special Collections Using Alma & Primo

Strategy

Description

The Strategy Track is for general topics relating to any creative, innovative, or forward-thinking strategy you employ at your institution. Strategy sessions may also address broad issues in the profession.

Example Past Sessions

• • Streamline Training of Student Library Assistants Using a Course Management System and Flipped Classroom Method
  • Project Management for the Alma Migration and Beyond!
  • Extreme Couponing for Ebook Acquisitions: Building a High-value Ebook Collection While Maintaining Lean Workflows
  • Herding Cats: Ideas for Managing “All the Things” at Work
  • Storytelling with Data in the CSU System
  • We Had a Fire: Tips for a Hot Mess and “Water” We Do Now?
  • How to Conduct a Usability Study