1. Alma at the University of Salford Angela Walker, Digital Library Manager

2. University of Salford 20,000 students 3,000 international students 4 Colleges & 9 schools

3. The Library: on campus 3 libraries 100 % self service 24 / 7 opening 3

4. Around 900,000 entries per year Library budget – Total £6.5M information resources £2.4m 85% of IR budget spent on electronic information The Library – Some Statistics

5. Alma Journey Joined Alma Early Adopter Programme November 2011 Alma is 1 year Old @ Salford Live with Alma 13 th July 2013 Review & Improve Identified a need for Change 2009

6. What we like …

7. Reduction in systems More Control of system Ease of use Analytics Developing system Alma Community

8. Now …

9. Early Adopter Pain:  Requests  EDI Monthly release issues Analytics issues

10. Happy!

11. Thank you