Ex Libris Datacenter Migration and Outage During Memorial Day weekend Ex Libris will migrate our cloud platform which includes Alma, QuickSearch(Primo VE), Leganto, and Esploro to a new datacenter. From 9:00 PM on Saturday, May 29th until 09:00 PM Sunday,… Continue Reading
As we approach the anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic and our move to online instruction, we are taking a moment to reflect on the past year in reserves. Throughout this year, we have made the leap from primarily physical reserves… Continue Reading
The new SOAR research portal, powered by Esploro, is now live and can be accessed at soar.libraries.rutgers.edu. Esploro helps advance SOAR’s mission to promote Rutgers scholarship by improving and extending our ability to collect and manage institutional research outputs. Benefits of… Continue Reading
Alma Analytics Upgrade Alma Analytics will be upgraded the week of November 1. Users who want to retain their personal reports in My Folders after the upgrade will need to save a copy in the Analytics shared folder’s Migration directory… Continue Reading
The HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) provides digital access to a significant portion of our titles held in print during temporary and involuntary disruptions to normal library collections services. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how patrons access and use… Continue Reading
Ex Libris updates its products every month with enhancements recommended by customers and other users. There are two primary ways customers can suggest development enhancements. The Idea Exchange platform (http://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/) is a system that anyone can use at any time… Continue Reading
Rutgers students, faculty, and staff can now access over a million digitized texts available through HathiTrust’s Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS). In response to the current public health crisis, HathiTrust is providing member libraries with temporary access to digital versions… Continue Reading
New Central Index Coming to QuickSearch In Spring 2020, Ex Libris will release its new Central Discovery Index (CDI), an expanded search index with an upgraded infrastructure that will replace the current Primo Central Index (PCI). The central index is… Continue Reading
As you know, the Ex Libris Implementation Team has been working with the Law Libraries since May on a project to migrate their data to Alma and merge their library catalog with ours. During the week of January 6, we… Continue Reading
The project to append Rutgers Law Libraries’ Koha Catalog data to our instance of Alma and QuickSearch is picking up the pace. During the summer the Implementation Team and its working groups met with our counterparts at Law to review… Continue Reading