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Oct 23 2026
Free webinar: Smarter Metadata. Better Discovery. Less Work.
Overview
Springer Nature and Ex Libris are organising a free webinar titled “Unlocking the Full Value of Content: Automating Content Delivery, Holdings Management & Discovery.” The session will examine how high-quality metadata, technology and automated workflows can make scholarly resources easier for libraries to manage, access and discover.
The webinar will provide a behind-the-scenes view of content onboarding, automated holdings updates and discovery services. Speakers Bobbi Patham of Springer Nature and Tamar Ganor of Clarivate will discuss how automation can improve confidence in content availability while allowing library staff to devote more time to higher-value activities.
Details
Webinar Information
Webinar: Unlocking the Full Value of Content: Automating Content Delivery, Holdings Management & Discovery
Theme: Smarter Metadata, Better Discovery and Less Manual Work
Organisers: Springer Nature and Ex Libris
Clarivate participation: Ex Libris is represented through Clarivate speaker Tamar Ganor.
Date: 29 October 2026
India time: 9:00 a.m. IST, as stated in the announcement
Additional listed times: 7:00 a.m. CST and 7:30 a.m. GST
Schedule note: The listed international times do not appear to represent equivalent time-zone conversions. Participants should verify the correct local time on the official registration page.
Participation fee: Free
Registration: Advance registration is required through the link included in the original announcement.
Webinar Focus
Scholarly content management: The webinar will examine the systems and processes libraries use to receive, organise and maintain access to scholarly resources.
Metadata: Speakers will discuss how accurate, complete and standardised metadata improves the management and discovery of content.
Technology infrastructure: The session will explain how publishing and library technologies work together to transfer resource information between providers and discovery systems.
Automation: Automated workflows can reduce repetitive administrative tasks and improve the speed and consistency of content updates.
Behind-the-scenes perspective: Participants will learn about the technical processes that support access to scholarly materials even though they are generally not visible to end users.
Content Onboarding
Onboarding process: The session will explain how information about books, journals and other scholarly resources is transferred into library-management and discovery environments.
Metadata preparation: Consistent descriptive and access information helps discovery systems identify, display and link users to resources correctly.
Publisher-to-library workflow: Effective data exchange among publishers, knowledge bases, link resolvers and library systems is important for timely access.
Operational benefit: Efficient onboarding can reduce delays between acquiring a resource and making it discoverable to library users.
Holdings Management
Holdings information: Libraries must maintain reliable records showing which electronic resources, titles and coverage periods are available to their users.
Automated updates: Automation can help ensure that changes to subscriptions, packages, title lists and coverage information are reflected promptly.
Reduced manual maintenance: Automated processes can limit the need for staff to review and revise large quantities of holdings data manually.
Data accuracy: More timely holdings updates can reduce broken links, incorrect availability information and confusion among users.
Confidence in availability: Reliable holdings information helps library staff and users trust that displayed content can be accessed as indicated.
Content Discovery
Discoverability: High-quality metadata makes scholarly publications easier to locate through library search interfaces and discovery services.
Search experience: Accurate descriptive information can improve search results, resource identification and navigation.
Link resolution: Reliable metadata and holdings data help link resolvers direct users from citations and search results to available full-text content.
Resource usage: Improved discovery can increase the visibility and use of materials in which institutions have invested.
Library experience: Better coordination among metadata, holdings and access systems can create a more consistent experience for researchers, students and faculty.
Benefits for Library Staff
Reduced workload: Automated content and holdings workflows can decrease the time spent on repetitive data-entry and maintenance activities.
Operational efficiency: Standardised processes can improve consistency and reduce the need to correct avoidable errors.
Higher-value work: Time saved through automation can be redirected towards user services, collection strategy, teaching support and research engagement.
Decision support: Reliable resource and usage information can help libraries make more informed collection-management decisions.
Service improvement: More dependable access information can reduce troubleshooting and improve assistance provided to library users.
Speaker—Bobbi Patham
Speaker: Bobbi Patham
Position: Manager, Global Discovery & Retention
Organisation: Springer Nature
Professional focus: Discovery services, metadata standards and improving access to scholarly content.
Industry relationships: Patham manages relationships with major discovery-service and link-resolver providers.
NISO participation: She serves on the KBART and Open Discovery Initiative Standing Committees.
NASIG participation: She also contributes to the NASIG Standards Committee and wider work on metadata quality and interoperability.
Speaker—Tamar Ganor
Speaker: Tamar Ganor
Position: Senior Product Manager
Organisation: Clarivate
Area of responsibility: Metadata and content-operations initiatives.
Library background: Ganor worked as an academic librarian for more than a decade before moving into product management.
Professional perspective: She combines practical library experience with technology-product strategy.
Current focus: Working with libraries to improve content discovery, metadata quality and the overall library experience.
Registration and Recording
Live attendance: Registered participants may join the webinar at the time confirmed in their registration details.
Recording: Individuals who cannot attend live are encouraged to register so that they can receive the recording from the organiser.
Event enquiries: Questions may be directed to Melanie Masserant, Customer Engagement Events Manager.
Further information: Interested participants may review the confirmed schedule, registration requirements and event-access information through the link provided in the original Springer Nature communication.
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