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 Recording coming soon |
| 12:25 | Andrew Press & Roshan Thapa (Charles Sturt University) Enhancing Alma Finance integration with GenAI Recording coming soon |
| 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 Recording coming soon |
| 13:35 | Break |
| 13:55 | Morgan Wilson (Australian National University) Studying different implementations of Primo by Australian and New Zealand libraries Recording coming soon |
| 14:40 | Break |
| 14:50 | Shmuel Ohayon, Yaniv Levi Korem, and Yisrael Kuchar (ExLibris) ExLibris Update Recording coming soon |
| 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 Recording coming soon |
| 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 Recording coming soon |
| 13:45 | Sarah Lucas & Adele MacDonald (Curtin University) Automatic Copyright Workflows in Leganto and the Librarian’s Guide to Dragon Slaying Recording coming soon |
| 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 Recording coming soon |
| 14:35 | Ella Rohde-Condon (Chair, ANZREG Committee) ANZREG Committee Update |
| 14:50 | Break |
| 15:00 | Tom Mosterd & Max Mosterd (Sylla) Sponsor Presentation – Towards a more open future: Reimagining Library Systems with Sylla Recording coming soon |
| 15:20 | Erin Montagu (Murdoch University) Making sense of AI Search tools: A consistent way to measure performance Recording coming soon |
| 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 Recording coming soon |
| 13:05 | Break |
| 13:15 | Kendall Bartsch (Third Iron) Sponsor Presentation – LibKey Updates: Second order retraction notification, LibKey Nomad++ expansion, and resource sharing integrations Recording coming soon |
| 13:35 | Rodney Foley (University of Tasmania) The Good, the Bad, and the Alma: A Library’s Tale of Transformation Recording coming soon |
| 14:05 | Break |
| 14:25 | Kael Driscoll (University of Western Australia) Are we the Baddies? Reviewing the role of High Demand collections at UWA Recording coming soon |
| 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 Recording coming soon |
| 15:10 | Break |
| 15:20 | Alan Oliver (ExLibris) ExLibris Q and A session Recording coming soon |
| 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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