Both ex libris primo and metalib product managers were able to attend, although an unfortunate calendar mixup meant an early departure by the primo pm. Ex libris provides forms to help with cataloguing resources. Ex libris announced that the southern adventist university has selected the entire suite of ex libris products to update its existing library management infrastructure. Open six days a week, our hours are monday friday, 11am to 6pm, saturday 11am to. Chris roberts, product manager, metalib knowledgebase, adds.
While writing can often be a lonely journey, publishing your book doesnt have to be. You and your workbe it a novel, truetolife story, poetry collection, or childrens talecan get all the publishing, marketing, and bookselling support here at xlibris. Ex libris, a proquest company, is a leading global provider of cloudbased solutions for higher education and research. Ex libris primo alma management fedora software developer. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, ex libris establishes fadiman as. Aleph, the ex libris integrated library solution, has been installed at over 1500 sites in 62 countries. Ex libris announces major metalib and sfx knowledgebase. The new feature is the result of the metalib knowledgebase update released by ex libris, which extends metalib s metasearch functionality, allowing end users to search and retrieve results from sciencedirect and scopus. Metalib conducts simultaneous searches in multiple, and often heterogeneous, information. Ex libris group announced today that two important new engineering and technology resources techxtra and perx have been added to the metalib central knowledgebase of crosssearchable resources. The program manager works with member libraries, vendors, consortium staff, and alliance teams to oversee, coordinate, develop and assess the systems program.
Implementation and integration in the library environment. Although this course is an overview for metalib version 3, those of you who have other versions of metalib will find the topics relevant and helpful. I have used sirsidynix with workflows on the staff end, and sierra blah. Accessibility to library databases and other online.
Ex libris cannot guarantee that the resulting user. The four main functions of metalib as a library portal. However, specialty databases such as auto repair reference center are still not supported in the api. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the metalib archives. Witte, breck and witte, sarah and marcin, susan 2010 extending metalib to meet our users. Bodleian libraries searching library collections made easy. When performing a search via the primo metasearch function aka remote searching of metalib quicksets, we are seeing limited results that look like they are being filtered. Briggs library, south dakota state university, went live with metalib, a federated search engine from ex libris. Personalized book and monogram embosser ex libris chrome desktop embosser for books. In 2000, the new york times stated it to be the foremost ondemand publisher. Ex libris, under the ownership of golden gate capital since november. Aleph 500 for its next generation library management system, metalibsfx for federated searching and linking services, digitool for. The metalib list is an unmoderated discussion list about ex libris library system.
The company was acquired by the selfpublishing company author solutions, inc. Jan 20, 2006 about ex libris ex libris is a leading worldwide developer and provider of highperformance applications for libraries, information centers, and researchers. With metalib, an institution can manage todays hybrid information resources be they local or remote under one umbrella. Personalized chrome monogram or ex libris book embosser. Subscription is open to ex libris customers and to employees of ex libris andor its affiliates and resellers. Jul 8, 2000, ex libris introduces metalib federated search application. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, ex libris establishes fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.
I have a firststep interview on tuesday with a library that uses ex libris primo and id like to have a rough idea of what im getting into. Ex libris art dedicated to the collection of ex libris. Metalib ex libris user community discussion list for metalib. Answers as provided by our product analysts, to commonly raised questions. Located in the hub shopping center, we are conveniently near the lewis ginter botanical gardens. Ex libris book embosser emboss the title page and a predetermined inside page to personalize and safeguard your books with an embosser that says ex libris on the top and your name on the bottom. The focus of metalib is on databases and packages of ejournals and ebooks rather than on individual constituents that might be required, for. Currently, after using facet books, it includes resource types of book and book chapter together.
Metalib ird records require a separate dedup algorithm, type 4 based on the ckb id or 035 or 245. Without reading the dust jacket, i added the book to my pile. Other ex libris collectors look at book ownership rather than the artist who created the bookplate for example, an ex libris from the personal books of charlie chaplin, sir arthur conan doyle or charles dickens. Before opening ex libris, jim martinelli was a librarian for years. Proquest to acquire ex libris american libraries magazine. Items where subject is metalib eluna document repository. Xlibris is a selfpublishing and ondemand printing services provider, founded in 1997 and based in bloomington, indiana. We published our first titles on south devon in 19791980, since when we have produced more than two hundred books, many of which remain in print in updated editions. Southern adventist university selects aleph 500, metalib sfx, digitool, verde. Ex libris definition, from the library of a phrase inscribed in or on a book before the name of the owner.
Eluna is the voice and advocate for institutions of all sizes and types of libraries, including academic, public, government and corporate entities, as well as library consortia. What procedure should be followed to alert ex libris of a system down. Metalib, the information portal for library collections, and sfx, the context. A single search interface provides a gateway to a wealth of scholarly content, including print, electronic and digital collections. Ex libris means from the library of in latin, and its used to describe books that came from someones personal library. Jul 04, 2003 ex libris is northside richmond, virginias oldest bookshop, serving the community since 1989. There is no need for candidate selection in the case of this algorithm but to keep with the general process both candidate and matching fields are created. About ex libris ex libris is a leading worldwide developer and provider of highperformance applications for libraries, information centers, and researchers. Datenbanken dann gemeinsam angezeigt in metalib oder in primo. Subscribe to metalib by filling out the following form. Metalib if an ebsco ebook resource is configured in metalib, a metalib category or quickset can be offered for search via primo. This integration is the result of requests from the metalib user community and represents cooperation between ex libris and elsevier.
Metalib ex libris user community discussion list for. Ex libris books publishes a range of titles under the imprints ex libris press and seaflower books. A meeting with ex libris during pwg face to face meetings is always an exciting prospect to look forward to, and so it proved in zurich. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. An editoral ex libris introduces ebook focus group what do users. Ex libris primo central american library association journals. Share your experience and read other success stories at the metalib developers blog. It is thus possible to perform a metasearch, that is, a simultaneous search of various. This list is for discussion of ex libris federated search system, metalib. Find databases in primo without metalib have an idea for ex. The current chief executive is andrew philips, who was formerly the president of penguin books. Sabinet, an online information solution provider to libraries in the academic, business, and government sectors in south africa, and ex libris, a developer and provider of applications for libraries, information centers, and researchers, have announced that sacat can be searched by metalib, an ex libris library portal and metasearch tool, in parallel with other metalib search targets.
Confessions of a common reader at the library and immediately turned around. Prior to that, 49% of the company had been owned by random house. Metalib conducts simultaneous searches in multiple, and often heterogeneous, information resources such as library catalogs, journal articles, newspapers and selected quality internet resources. Metalib email lists eluna eluna ex libris users of. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttonycharles lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Metalib can therefore be described as a search interface for databases that are compatible with the z39. On still another plane ex libris looks at the emergence of the first tender shoots of modern science from the compost of alchemy, astrology and even more mystical influences. What is the metalib policy regarding the links to records in native interface. Ex libris group is pleased to announce that the central knowledge bases ckb of the companys metalib and sfx eproducts have grown dramatically during the last year. In other cases, dealers may indicate that a book is ex libris because. Ex libris group is an israeli software company that develops integrated library systems and. Hi all, does anyone have any experience with ex libris primo as an opac. On still another plane exlibris looks at the emergence of the first tender shoots of modern science from the compost of alchemy, astrology and even more mystical influences. Aleph 500 for its next generation library management system, metalib sfx for federated searching and linking services, digitool for.
Sanctuary bookshop and some lyme regis accommodation book features, mostly drawn from our current stock. Ex libris announced that the periodical portal, a virtual library of scientific and technological information resources maintained by the brazilian federal agency for support and evaluation of graduate education, has gone live with the sfx openurl link resolver and the metalib gateway and metasearch solution. In some cases, the words ex libris will even appear on the volumes book plate. Periodical portal of the brazilian federal agency for. Accessibility to library databases and other online library. Sep 29, 2006 sabinet, an online information solution provider to libraries in the academic, business, and government sectors in south africa, and ex libris, a developer and provider of applications for libraries, information centers, and researchers, have announced that sacat can be searched by metalib, an ex libris library portal and metasearch tool, in parallel with other metalib search targets. This paper presents the implementation process, addresses resource accessibility issues, and suggests a number of resources that can be consulted about these issues. Developing an electronic resource management system. Aarlin operates on a distributed architecture implementa. Ex libris is northside richmond, virginias oldest bookshop, serving the community since 1989. Ex libris is pleased to be able to provide searching of sciencedirect and scopus via metalib. This behavior is to help users to include in their search result all possible relevant results types for their search. As i pasted the ex libris sticker in the paperback, i wondered what ex libris means.
Ex libris company profile library technology guides. Perx provides subject resource discovery across a series of repositories of interest to the engineering learning and research. When is ex libris hosted maintenance window which metalib access methods are searchable via primo remote search. This shift allows for normalization rule changes to take. Since february 2004 this team has created 188 new configurations, 50% plus are for australian resources. Aarlin has offered its new configurations to ex libris for inclusion in the ex libris ckb. This article outlines the implementation process, including selection criteria, implementation decisions, and staff and faculty training techniques. Currently we use metalib to present students with an az databases list and we understand. The current archive is only available to the list members.
Whatever your own specialization, this website is a place to share our love of ex libris through images and historical articles. I am always afraid of my coworkers looking at what books i have checked out just due to the. Metalib resource configurations which are shared between the member institutions. This paper presents the implementation process, addresses resource accessibility issues, and suggests a number of resources that can be. Ex libris adds techxtra and perx configurations to metalib. Southern adventist university selects aleph 500, metalibsfx, digitool, verde. Ex libris midatlantic ema 2009 conference, 56 november 2009, binghamton university downtown center, binghamton, ny. Ex libris announced that the periodical portal, a virtual library of scientific and technological information resources maintained by the brazilian federal agency for support and evaluation of graduate education, has gone live with the sfx openurl link resolver and the. Southern adventist university selects aleph 500, metalibsfx. Eluna is the international user community for ex libris customers in the americas. Metalib is a federated search system developed by ex libris group.
Topic clusters and author, date, and journal title facets are generated onthefly. Jerusalem, israel and edinburgh, scotlandmarch 1, 2007. This was an era when there were not yet so many books that a highly educated person could not at least aspire to read more or less universally. Sabinet and ex libris announce sacat through metalib. Southern adventist university selects aleph 500, metalib. Frederick wisemans ex libris the latest work from the great documentary filmmaker examines the new york public library as it reconfigures itself for the digital age. This position also provides support for alliancewide systems, including ex libris alma. It has been a great pleasure to continue our close cooperation with oxford university libraries, which began with the rapid implementation of the sfx openurl link resolver in 2007 and the metalib gateway and metasearch solution in may 2008. Spineomatic is a windows application that works with ex libris alma to print spine labels, pocket labels, flag slips and other custom labels to a variety of desktop or networked printers, singly or in batches. The collection of essays is ten years old, and they already feel datedparticularly. Ex libris art dedicated to the collection of ex libris and. The metalib user interface was developed to comply with leading international accessibility and industry standards. Sciencedirect and scopus now enabled for metalib ex libris.
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