Alma@LIBISnet
Bart Peeters
IGeLU Oxford Sep 2014
Head of operations @
LIBIS
Agenda
• Why Alma?
• Where are we?
• Highs &Lows
Alma@LIBISnet
Why Alma
• LIBIS is service provider for libraries, archives and
musea. For libraries we operate 3 networks
– LIBISnet (KU Leuven, Colleges, National Bank of Belgium, …)
– PBS (public library network of province Vlaams-Brabant)
– OpenVlacc (central catalogue for Flanders)
• Experience with library software
• => LIBIS became Alma development partner
• To consolidate and streamline workflows and the
backoffice softwares.
Alma@LIBISnet
Where are we?
• We just went live on July 15 & August 5 2014
– In 2 clusters
– We have 33 Alma institutions live (31 institutions + a Network
Zone institution and a sandbox)
• 2009: development partner
Testing … testing … testing
• 2012: change management sessions with library
management team of KU Leuven
• 2013: Network Zone, train-the-trainer, ILL workshop,
testconversion, recruitment of Alma experts, …
Alma@LIBISnet
Where are we?
• 2014:
– March-April: workshops & demo’s, preparing documentation
– May-June: training by the “Alma experts”
• 400 librarians
• About 30 sessions (most of them hands on)
– July – August: final migration in 2 clusters
– August – September: 10 “follow up” sessions and extra
training
– September-October: new start up working groups
Alma@LIBISnet
Where are we?
• We try to settle down at the moment … NOT
– 3 Alma certified administrators … more to come
– 50 calls at hotline
– 500 issues in the helpdesk (80% solved)
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Alma@LIBISnet
25% Resource Management
20% Acquisitions
25% Fulfillment
15% Primo
15% Other (user management, printing, …)
STP + list
Upcoming mergers of Alma institutions …
Reference visits
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Highs & Lows
• Lows
– Migration
• Only one real test migration
• Data migrated as is
• Vendors migrated only once (at test migration)
– Network Zone functionality too limited at the moment
– Performance
– Different teams/people: implementation, development,
migration teams
– STP + list
Alma@LIBISnet
Highs & Lows
• Highs
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Alma Analytics
Search (persistent search box, advanced search)
For librarians: simple tools/interface to run jobs
Fulfillment:
• Follow up of reservations
• Fulfillment configuration utility
– It’s getting better every month
Alma@LIBISnet
Thank you
Questions? Contact us:
LIBIS
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54, W. de Croylaan PB 5592
B-3001 Leuven (Heverlee)
Belgium
 016 32 22 66
 info@libis.be - bart.peeters@libis.kuleuven.be
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http://www.libis.be