The Collaborative Futures Mini Conference is an opportunity to share knowledge and learn about best practices for collaborative library technologies and projects.
Watch recordings of Collaborative Futures Mini Conferences to learn how OCUL members are making data discoverable, managing shared e-resources, implementing new technology systems and more.
June 2024 Collaborative Futures Mini Conference
Presentations:
- Combining data fields of multiple subject areas in Alma Analytics using SQL Join (Nirmal Prasad, University of Waterloo)
- Maximizing E-Collection Management Efficiency with Community Zone Updates Task List (Iman El Gamal and Andrea Bee, University of Guelph)
- Why are there so many M&M boxes on the third floor? (Matthew Fesnak, Paige Roman and Cameron Wheaton, McMaster University)
- Big Picture of Alma Workflows: Dissection in Alma Workflows post migration & pandemic (Johanna Whitson and Alexa Evans, University of Waterloo)
- Improving accessible discovery and reading experiences: Collaborating to integrate a “Get Alternate Format” link into Primo VE brief records (Mark Weiler, Wilfrid Laurier University; Bart Kawula, Scholars Portal; and Nancy Waite, McMaster University)
- LendIT, the all-in-one solution for self-serve: The overall experience at uOttawa (Marie-Hélène Tanguay-Bérubé, University of Ottawa)
June 2023 Collaborative Futures Mini Conference
Presentations:
- Making Data Discoverable: Connecting Omni to Dataverse and Beyond (Danica Evering and Wei Zhang, McMaster University)
- Harvesting eCampusOntario Open Library Collections (Tuan Nguyen, York University)
- Alphabet Soup: AtoM into Omni through OAI-PMH (Jeremy Heil and Henry Han, Queen's University)
- Failed Jobs: Import Data to PrimoVE - Institutional Repository Edition (Christina Zoricic and Alie Visser, Western University)
- Resource Sharing Clues: Charting the Statistical World of ILL (Crystal Mills, Western University)
- Selecting Alma Digital for Digital Asset Management (Carolyn Sullivan, University of Ottawa)
- Shall the shelves remain ever the same? (Adam Taves, William Denton and Patti Ryan, York University)
June 2022 Collaborative Futures Mini Conference
Presentations:
- A Bit Beyond the Basics: Three Helpful Tips for Using Alma Analytics (Megan Burke and Dylan Weltman, Queen's University)
- That Datasyncing Feeling (Geoff Sinclair, Trent University)
- Floating a Collection (Geoff Sinclair, Trent University)
- Enabling Open Library Covers API (Carolyn Sullivan, University of Ottawa)
- The Power of Power Automate (Daniel Andrade, Brock University)
- OCUL/CF Evidence-Based Acquisitions (Jax Cato and Shawn Hendrikx, Western University)
- Bridging the Distance with Omni/Rialto (Gisella Scalese, Chris Tomasini and Kim Vallee, Lakehead University)
- Using Alma and Primo to enable Marrakesh Treaty Fulfillments: An Interim Report (Pascal Calarco, University of Windsor and ARL/CARL Visiting Program Officer)