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Things have been moving forward here, so time for an update. The OpenURL resolver application, SFX, is now installed on our server and this week we received our first training sessions from Christine Stohn, our technical contact at Ex Libris.

We were joined by David Iggulden and Fiona Ainsworth from the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew), our nearest EDIT partner institution.

Now we have had the training, our next steps are to get SFX configured to our liking and to understand the practicalities of adding and managing subscription and user information across multiple institutions.

We will be going through a similar process with Metalib, which we plan to install and start working with in April.

The training took place at the Natural History Museum (London), and it's a pleasure to show the place off to people who haven't visited before.

We are still planning how we will roll out the service to the other EDIT partners, and it may be that we will travel to them to present a tailored training session targeted at electronic library managers. If this happens, I'm looking forward to seeing more of our partner institutions.

Anyway, I will post here when our SFX efforts are ready for testing in the wider world.