LMS Advisory Group

The Library Management System (LMS) Advisory Group is a forum for ensuring the effective use of the ExLibris Alma. It will ensure requirements from the different business areas of the Library are captured, prioritised and fed into system development. It will also help inform strategy, policy and service development by raising issues of common concern, identifying new opportunities for development, and considering new working practices.

The LMS Advisory Group Reports to: Head of Content, Collections Discovery and Head of Digital Technologies & Services.

Aims of the group

Explore ideas to improve workflows, identify innovations and formulate future development proposals
Capture and prioritise requirements from different business areas in the Library with regard to LMS functionality
Provide a forum to discuss issues regarding Alma and present ideas for consideration
Enable communication between all key library services with regard to LMS related issues
Establish a formal feedback mechanism throughout the library service with regard to decisions made
Identify any Alma functionality issues and agree an approach to resolving them
Consider integration issues with other systems
Oversee LMS release schedule, ensuring new functionality is tested and make recommendations on what is enabled
Disseminate and share feedback from relevant user groups and conferences (IGeLU /EPUG UK)
Discuss and consider roadmap developments in Alma
Generate ideas following the implementation by ExLibris of the Ideas Exchange
Discuss and agree voting strategy during Alma enhancement cycle (NERs) process