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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We migrated to the new EDS and EBSCOhost UI over the summer last year. I did not communicate anything to our users beforehand. I made sure that the other librarians were comfortable using the new interfaces
before the fall semester began, but that’s it. Our students and faculty don’t search library resources as often as we think they do, so after a summer off no one noticed anything looked different. They could still search for things and filter the results with
a clearly marked button, and that is all they were concerned with. We even had graduate classes that were held over the summer, and the students in those classes didn’t struggle with the change in interfaces – our usage didn’t drop, ILL requests didn’t increase,
and there were no frantic emails. I casually asked several instructors in the fall if the new interfaces had posed a challenge or were easy to use, and one hadn’t even used them and the others didn’t notice they were different.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">It was an extremely seamless transition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#422C89">Maria Smith, MLS</span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#422C89;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#422C89">UMHB Box 8016 | 900 College Street | Belton, Texas 76513<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#422C89"><a href="https://umhb.libcal.com/appointments/"><span style="color:blue">Schedule an appointment with a librarian</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"> Eril-l <eril-l-bounces@lists.eril-l.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list via Eril-l<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 16, 2025 4:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> eril-l@lists.eril-l.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Eril-l] EBSCOhost new UI.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:red;background:yellow;mso-ligatures:none">EXTERNAL</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:yellow;mso-ligatures:none">
Exercise Caution</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Hi there!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">We’re planning to migrate to the new EBSCOhost UI over the summer and I’m trying to see what I would need to communicate out to our users before the semester ends and folks leave for the summer.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Links will redirect and personal accounts will use the same login. I know that users with search alerts set up will have to recreate their search alerts on the new UI. The migration of saved
searches and custom folders should be coming out this month. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">For those who have already migrated to the new EBSCOhost UI, did you encounter any issues with the migration and the new UI?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">-Louisa <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Louisa Choy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Electronic Resources & Systems Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">University of Massachusetts Boston, Healey Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125-3393<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Louisa.choy@umb.edu"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Louisa.choy@umb.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
<b>(best contact)</b>| 617-287-6156<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.umb.edu/library" title="http://www.umb.edu/library"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">http://www.umb.edu/library</span></a><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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