Library news

Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, has announced that Tulane University has selected the Ex Libris Alma library services platform.

COUNTER has made a new Foundation Class on Platform Reports available.

Jisc is currently running an important piece of work on UK Further Education libraries/LRCs, and is inviting participation in a survey on FE library/LRC technology.

Seamless Access, a non-profit collaboration of librarians, HigherEd IT and publishers, is encouraging people from institutions for higher education and research to fill out a short questionnaire.

Academic librarians from across the UK who have (shared) responsibility for a books budget (or for buying books) are being invited to fill in a survey.

Cambridge University Press has commissioned Shift Learning to conduct a survey into how CUP is perceived by its customers and librarians are encouraged to complete the online questionnaire.

Council Bluffs Public Library and Faulkner-Van Buren Regional Library System have selected SirsiDynix as their integrated library system partner.

California Baptist University is implementing Ex Libris RapidILL, and the Università Carlo Cattaneo has selected Ex Libris Esploro.

The 2019 edition of the International Library Automation Perceptions survey is under way and will be open until 20 January 2019. Library workers are invited to take a few minutes to take part in the survey regarding technologies used in libraries.

A research study is setting out to investigate whether there are student gender differences (self-identified gender) in the take-up of individually booked library or learning resource centre support sessions.