The Shared Integrated Library System (SILS) Team provides broad oversight and leadership in the operation and continued development of the Alma / Primo Shared ILS system at the University of Puget Sound.
The team focuses primarily on operational aspects of the Shared ILS, in the context of library workflows. Namely, how to apply Alma to best effect on existing library workflows and how to implement new workflows in the library to best take advantage of Alma.
The team also serves as means of communication between library departments about internal operation and processes as well as Alliance and Ex Libris news of interest to participating staff.
The team has some policy-making authority, particular when the policies pertain to internal library matters, such as Alma configuration settings and Primo settings. The team may make policy recommendations to the Library LeadershipTeam and various Alliance bodies, when decisions have an impact broader than Collins library and its staff.
The team generally meets on a monthly basis. In addition, "one off" meetings may be scheduled as necessary to discuss specific topics at a deeper level, generally with a subset of the group.
FY 2021-2022 schedule: September 20; October 25; November 22; December 20; January 24; February 28; March 28; April 25; May 23; June 27.
The group posts and archives its decisions, recommendations and work products on this guide (see Meeting Archive).
The team consists of representatives from each library department, as follows:
Hilary Robbeloth
Associate Director for RMS
Team Lead: Sets team agenda, identifies action items, assigns tasks
Alliance Technical Services and Systems Team Institutional Representative.
Represents overall RMS leadership interests
Dusty Gorman
Electronic Resources Librarian
Represents electronic resources interests.
Carmel Thompson
Acquisitions and Electronic Resources Manager
Represents acquisitions interests.
Andrea Klyn
Social Sciences Librarian
Alliance Shared Content Institutional Representative.
Represents discovery-related interests
Cassandra Palmore
Access Services Supervisor
Alliance Fulfillment Institutional Representative.
Represents Access Services and Interlibrary Loan interests
Jada Pelger
Information Resources Coordinator
Alliance Resource Sharing Institutional Representative.
Represents resource sharing interests
Nick Triggs
User Experience & Discovery Librarian
Alliance Discovery & User Experience Institutional Representative.
Represents Primo VE interests