Conference Reports

ELUNA 2010: User testing of an SFX menu redesign

User Testing of an SFX Menu Redesign
Bennett Ponsford
Digital Services Librarian
Texas A&M University Libraries

The existing Services Menu design dated from 2005 - a very traditional out-of-the-box SFX menu. Were unhappy with design and wanted/needed/planned a change. Data showed that 87% of Services Menu use was confined to full text linking. When no full text available, only 30% tried something else - usually ILL.

ELUNA 2010: An ILL permissions application

Extracting Verde data for use in an ILL Permissions Application
Written by Wayne Johnson, University of Guelph
Presented by Charles Woods, University of Waterloo

The objective of this project was to provide a limited view of Verde data for a selected audience; specifically to display Verde license info for ILL staff. Verde is so complex and contains so much information (some of it confidential) that it's fine to bypass all this for staff with a very specific purpose. The licensing terms themselves are often also complex and it's not easy for a non-expert to interpret it into a concrete answer to "Can we loan this?" The application boils licensing terms down into three possible answers - "Yes," "No," or "Maybe/Unknown".

ELUNA 2010: Access to HathiTrust titles in SFX

Providing Access to the HathiTrust Titles Without Adding Millions of Objects to the SFX Knowledgebase
Margery Tibbetts
California Digital Library

HathiTrust (pronounced "hod-ee") born of the Google Books project, with items contributed by CID libraries.

ELUNA 2010: Primo and Primo Central product update

Jorgen Madsen
Ex Libris Primo Product Manager

Agenda:
Primo v.3 highlights
Primo Central

ELUNA 2010: Voyager-Verde data interaction

Voyager-Verde Data Interaction
Ted Schwitzner and Anita Foster
Illinois State University

Agenda:
Ted - Rationale for the project; getting data out of Voyager
Anita - Getting Voyager data into Verde
Ted and Anita - Recommendations for attendees

ELUNA 2010: Reconciling with Verde

Reconciling with Verde: Big Deals - Big Dreams - Big Successes?
Allison Erhardt and Lisa O'Hara
University of Manitoba Libraries

ELUNA 2010: URM update

Susan Stearns, Omri Gerson, John Larson - Ex Libris

Agenda:
Susan - URM from concept to reality
Omri - A peek under the hood
John - A user story
Omri - Ex Libris development methodology

ELUNA 2010: Verde product update

Nettie Lagace
Ex Libris Verde Product Manager

Agenda:
Verde 2 > URM roadmap
SFX and Verde
Verde Product Working Group survey
UStat

ELUNA 2010: General session part 3

Oren Beit-Arie, Ex Libris Chief Strategy Officer on Product Strategy
Vision and Strategy; Roadmap

The future of libraries? Technology has created a very different context for the missions of academic and research libraries (No Brief Candle, Daphnee Rentfrow) - Ex Libris subscribes to this notion.
Ithaka strategy and research faculty survey - scholarly information use practices have shifted rapidly; as a result the academic library is being dis-intermediated from the discovery process, risking irrelevance. But faculty members' growing comfort with digital versions of scholarly materials opens new opportunities for libraries.
Digital Information Seeker survey on behalf of JISC: Google is central, but users want enhanced functionality in library systems and enhanced content to help resource evaluation.
Therefore, high-quality metadata is becoming more important; the library system must do better in providing seamless access between discovery and delivery.

ELUNA 2010: General session part 2

Matti Shem Tov - President and CEO of Ex Libris
Ex Libris Moving Forward

Current state of affairs:
4700 customers, 84 mil in revenue, 77 countries, 39 national libraries, 470 employees, 2050 North American customers in 49 states and 7 Canadian provinces, 118 North American employees