Title:
Alma in Wonderland: How We Learned to Stop Pushing Paper and Live a Paperless World
Alma in Wonderland: How We Learned to Stop Pushing Paper and Live a Paperless World
| dc.contributor.author | Bishop, Christopher | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bragg, Colin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vitti, Jenny | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Agnes Scott College. McCain Library | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Emory University. Library | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-22T21:55:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-02-22T21:55:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-11-18 | |
| dc.description | Presented at the 2016 Access Services Conference, Georgia Tech Global Learning Center and the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, November 16-18, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. | en_US |
| dc.description | Christopher Bishop is the Systems Librarian at Oxford College of Emory University. His responsibilities include the maintenance and long term planning for various systems used in conjunction with other Emory libraries, chief among them Alma, ILLiad, and Ares. Christopher also oversees Access Services, Metadata/Cataloging, and shares teaching responsibilities, serving as personal librarian for the History, Economics, and Sociology departments. | en_US |
| dc.description | Colin Bragg manages the day-to-day operations of reserves at Woodruff Library, and serves as the liaison for reserves staff across all Emory libraries. He is the product manager for Ares at Emory, working closely with library IT and systems staff. | en_US |
| dc.description | Jenny Vitti manages stacks and course reserves at Pitts Theology Library. She works with a team to manage student assistants at the circulation desk and solves circulation related problems. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In December 2015, Emory University's eight libraries migrated from Ex Libris’ Aleph ILS system to Alma to manage their library collections, patrons, and processes. The need for integration between eight libraries, including remote sites, necessitated new workflows for handling of materials across libraries, as well as the adaptation of previous day-to-day processes to align with Alma’s functionality. Two major changes affecting circulation and stacks staff were third party workarounds for printing, which we did not adopt, and the analytics module’s 24 hour delay. Due to these truncated features, we've reinvented our workflows to incorporate Alma’s built-in logical and itemized data sets and user account information, our own homegrown forms, and especially Excel manipulation (including macros and Pivot Tables for faceting results). Staff have achieved a more intuitive and streamlined working environment for bookings, reserves, holds, and patron accounts. We will share these new practices and answer any post-migration workflow questions. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/56463 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Access Services Conference (8th - Atlanta - 2016) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Circulation | en_US |
| dc.title | Alma in Wonderland: How We Learned to Stop Pushing Paper and Live a Paperless World | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Proceedings | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Library | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Access Services Conference | |
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