HEB Joins the Ex Libris Alma Community Zone Program

As of July 2014, ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is a participant in the Ex Libris Alma Community Zone program. HEB will provide MARC records and metadata to Ex Libris, enabling participating libraries to streamline their acquisition and cataloging processes. Under the Alma Community Zone program, Ex Libris load publishers’ MARC records into the central community catalog, instead of each library loading the records into its local catalog. As a result, librarians are spared time-consuming processes associated with acquisition, the updating of records and authority control.

Sharona Sagi, director of resource management strategy at Ex Libris, commented: “The selection, acquisition, and management of e-books can be complex, expensive, and time-consuming, often causing delays in their availability to end users. We are delighted that ... HEB have added their metadata to the community catalog, thus freeing their customers from uploading and updating e-book metadata. In addition to benefiting [the] customer community and increasing the discoverability of their collections, their involvement in the program supports their primary goal of making knowledge more easily available to researchers.”

About Ex Libris: Ex Libris is a leading provider of automation solutions for academic, national and research libraries. For more information about Ex Libris Group, see its website.