2025 Conference
The ANZREG 2025 Conference will be held online from 10th-12th June, including a best practice / developer’s day.
The conference theme this year is ‘Hero or Villain’. We welcome you to share your hero’s journey, your victories or how you slayed the dragon. Or tell us your villain origin story, your horror stories and lessons learned.
Conference program
A final version of the program is now available in PDF format
The table below will be updated to reflect the final program links to view the recordings upon completion of the conference.
For any questions regarding submissions or other matters relating to the conference, please get in touch with the ANZREG committee.
Developers Day/Best Practice Day: Tuesday 10th June 2025
| Time (AEST) | Session |
|---|---|
| 12:00 | Welcome & Housekeeping Karakia & Acknowledgement of Country |
| 12:10 | Hugh Rundle (La Trobe University) A three-step recipe to get OER book covers into Alma View the recording |
| 12:25 | Andrew Press & Roshan Thapa (Charles Sturt University) Enhancing Alma Finance integration with GenAI View the recording |
| 12:40 | Break |
| 12:50 | Jessie Donaghey (IGeLU Leganto Working Group Coordinator/Bond University), Stacey van Groll (IGeLU Primo Working Group Coordinator/University of Queensland), & Dave Allen (IGeLU Steering Committee Chair/State Library of Queensland) Community-driven product enhancements: CERV updates View the recording |
| 13:35 | Break |
| 13:55 | Morgan Wilson (Australian National University) Studying different implementations of Primo by Australian and New Zealand libraries View the recording |
| 14:40 | Break |
| 14:50 | Shmuel Ohayon, Yaniv Levi Korem, and Yisrael Kuchar (ExLibris) ExLibris Update View the recording |
| 15:50 | Close and Karakia |
Day One: Wednesday 11th June 2025
| Time (AEST) | Session |
|---|---|
| 12:00 | Welcome & Housekeeping Karakia & Acknowledgement of Country |
| 12:05 | Emilia Bell (Murdoch University Library) Beyond provocation: Reimagining systems through care, critique, and community View the recording |
| 13:05 | Break |
| 13:15 | Deborah Fitchett (Lincoln University) Automating the reading list process; or, a case study of how to escalate your support jobs View the recording |
| 13:45 | Sarah Lucas & Adele MacDonald (Curtin University) Automatic Copyright Workflows in Leganto and the Librarian’s Guide to Dragon Slaying View the recording |
| 14:05 | Break |
| 14:20 | Katherine O’Brien & Patricia Farnan (The University of Notre Dame) Australia) Long live all the rules we moved: fighting Fulfillment Units View the recording |
| 14:35 | Ella Rohde-Condon (Chair, ANZREG Committee) ANZREG Committee Update View the recording |
| 14:50 | Break |
| 15:00 | Tom Mosterd & Max Mosterd (Sylla) Sponsor Presentation – Towards a more open future: Reimagining Library Systems with Sylla View the recording |
| 15:20 | Erin Montagu (Murdoch University) Making sense of AI Search tools: A consistent way to measure performance View the recording |
| 16:00 | Close and Karakia |
Day Two: Thursday 12th June 2025
| Time (AEST) | Session |
|---|---|
| 12:00 | Welcome & Housekeeping Karakia & Acknowledgement of Country |
| 12:05 | Adele Walsh (City of Charles Sturt) Practically Strategic: Real-World Advocacy from Self to Sector View the recording |
| 13:05 | Break |
| 13:15 | Kendall Bartsch (Third Iron) Sponsor Presentation – LibKey Updates: Second order retraction notification, LibKey Nomad++ expansion, and resource sharing integrations View the recording |
| 13:35 | Rodney Foley (University of Tasmania) The Good, the Bad, and the Alma: A Library’s Tale of Transformation View the recording |
| 14:05 | Break |
| 14:25 | Kael Driscoll (University of Western Australia) Are we the Baddies? Reviewing the role of High Demand collections at UWA View the recording |
| 14:40 | David Lewis & Drew Fordham (Curtin University) Publishing your Textbooks List: Lemons and Lemonade, Bridges and Murky Waters. A journey from nothing to something, and everything in between View the recording |
| 15:10 | Break |
| 15:20 | Alan Oliver (ExLibris) ExLibris Q and A session View the recording |
| 15:45 | Close and Karakia |
Please view the program for more details on each session
Thank you to our sponsors for the 2025 ANZREG Conference
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