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Shared Information From Other CLSP College IT and Library Staff

a) From Humber Library Staff

If a library chooses to have custom configurations in Alma, they may want to create a sample XML extract of this data to provide to their IT department. The document below includes instructions for extracting a sample user from Alma for IT staff.

b) From Algonquin IT Staff

I will share some details below that I hope are helpful for your efforts:

• SIS: at Algonquin our SIS is an in-house system, not Banner.

• Integration tool: to build a daily process that outputs and uploads the XML file to ExLibris, the tool we are using is SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services). In addition, we are using this third-party connector within SSIS to export the XML in the format that ExLibris expects: https://zappysys.com/products/ssis-powerpack/ssis-xml-destination/

• The tools above are part of the system integration stack we already use for many other integrations, not just Ex Libris.

• So far progress is going well, we can produce an XML file that was submitted to ExLibris for review, and they provided some minor feedback.

• I am happy to share more info and code, but the problem I see is, unless you are also using SSIS, and the Zappy connector, our code will not really help you.

Please let me know any further questions, and if there anything else I can help you with,

Max Figueredo

Data Architect

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