<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Wingdings;
panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Maiandra GD";
panose-1:2 14 5 2 3 3 8 2 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
p.msonormal0, li.msonormal0, div.msonormal0
{mso-style-name:msonormal;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
span.hoenzb
{mso-style-name:hoenzb;}
span.m4745263595805153971m3775671396408508977footercolumn
{mso-style-name:m_4745263595805153971m_3775671396408508977footercolumn;}
span.m4745263595805153971m3775671396408508977hideinmobile
{mso-style-name:m_4745263595805153971m_3775671396408508977hideinmobile;}
span.EmailStyle22
{mso-style-type:personal;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:#1F497D;}
span.EmailStyle23
{mso-style-type:personal;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:#1F497D;}
span.EmailStyle24
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I have to agree with Melissa P. …now that I am no longer at an Alma/Primo library….I miss their support. When I realized that our SerialsSolutions was 360Link
was ProQuest….I was so happy because it was so easy to search and find a solution to the problem. Can’t say the same for the ILS. The Alma/Primo listservs and developer’s network are great, too. I also get the same feeling – they listen to their customers
and they have improved A LOT over the years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">-Bobbi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Bobbi-Jean Ludwig, MLIS<br>
Coordinator for Library Technology Services & E-Resources Librarian<br>
Calvin T. Ryan Library - University of Nebraska – Kearney<br>
2508 11th Avenue<br>
Kearney, NE 68849-2240<br>
<b>email: ludwigbj@unk.edu phone: 308-865-8585</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Platkowski, Melissa<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 1, 2017 8:22 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Melissa Belvadi <mbelvadi@upei.ca>; eril-l@lists.eril-l.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] FW: What is the significance of RefWorks moving to Ex Libris?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I would say, yes, they are still acting separately in many ways. When I have a support issue with Proquest, I submit it through Proquest’s support in the databases.
I’m anticipating Proquest’s support will improve through their relationship with Ex Libris. We don’t have other PQ products besides databases, but I believe support for things other than research databases is being run through Ex Libris’s support ticketing
system with Proquest’s techies now. We have been an Ex Libris library (Voyager, SFX, Metalib, and now Primo and Alma) for longer than I have been here (I was the campus lead on part of our Primo and all of our Alma implementations), and as the systems librarian,
I am the main contact between Ex Libris and our library. I was also in a support role in my previous position as the E-Resources Management librarian, so I have been working with them since 2009. I have been pleased with the improvements to Ex Libris support
over the years. They have come a very long way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Ex Libris is using Salesforce to manage their support tickets, and I think it’s an excellent platform. Another thing I like about Ex Libris is they have a strong
drive to improve. When we complain about something not working, we feel heard. It might take a while to fix it sometimes (not always), but at least we feel they are taking our ideas into consideration. Like any company, they have their flaws, but they really
do seem to care about fixing them, and they care about how their users are interacting with their systems. Staff in our consortium were very heavily involved with testing the new Alma interface, for example. One staff member even got to go with a group to
their headquarters in Jerusalem for some intensive testing. They have a nice system where anyone in a customer library can propose ideas and vote on them, in a more informal process than the support-ticket “enhancement request”. I like that approach, too,
and they have used many of the ideas submitted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If Refworks’ support is one of their strengths, I think that will be carried through, and maybe they will teach PQ a thing or two.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> I haven’t really seen much of Proquest’s “stamp” on Ex Libris, so far. I don’t think you need
to worry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;color:#C0504D">Melissa Platkowski
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;color:#C0504D"><br>
Systems Librarian<br>
David A. Cofrin Library <br>
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay <br>
2420 Nicolet Dr. <br>
Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 <br>
P: (920) 465-2764</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;color:green">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;color:#2626D8"><a href="mailto:platkowm@uwgb.edu">platkowm@uwgb.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.uwgb.edu_library&d=DwMGaQ&c=9ZQuuHhOefNvAzlN-3viIA&r=z7B_Q9G-oAd4o1CHeI-YDg&m=zkjYDPcv4-ZjMW53n94aKr-aMOQqq7qNz0dnIvd5W58&s=BoY0XNxh3xI7bAcTguWoy3K1r5fLzmFKQm9q7EphFfs&e=">http://www.uwgb.edu/library</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.facebook.com_cofrinlibrary&d=DwMGaQ&c=9ZQuuHhOefNvAzlN-3viIA&r=z7B_Q9G-oAd4o1CHeI-YDg&m=zkjYDPcv4-ZjMW53n94aKr-aMOQqq7qNz0dnIvd5W58&s=NEA_sTqE21xFAEASwQWEJeTcbLuYm7fNb10k9bgPFZ0&e="><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="20" height="20" style="width:.2083in;height:.2083in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D3532C.8B586990" alt="Facebook"></span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.twitter.com_CofrinLibraryGB&d=DwMGaQ&c=9ZQuuHhOefNvAzlN-3viIA&r=z7B_Q9G-oAd4o1CHeI-YDg&m=zkjYDPcv4-ZjMW53n94aKr-aMOQqq7qNz0dnIvd5W58&s=hnarCysoDwSmhuOq-vIWljLET9A50xXVRYuzi-FpBkw&e="><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="20" height="20" style="width:.2083in;height:.2083in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01D3532C.8B586990" alt="Twitter"></span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Maiandra GD",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Eril-l [<a href="mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org">mailto:eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Melissa Belvadi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 31, 2017 1:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] What is the significance of RefWorks moving to Ex Libris?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi, all. We are a RefWorks customer and a Proquest database and ebook customer but have not had any business with any of the Ex Libris product family. All I know is that Ex Libris is also owned
by Proquest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">So I'm not sure how to take the announcement we got this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Do any of you have any ideas of what this will mean?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Has Ex Libris customer support and invoicing remained very separate from the rest of Proquest? If so, do you Ex Libris customers think this portends improvements in those services for RefWorks? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I've always thought that RefWorks tech support was excellent, far better than the rest of Proquest, and am a bit concerned about that aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Melissa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>