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Rialto continues to add functionality and enhancements to support efficient workflows, collaboration, and a seamless user experience.
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Read MoreSelection and acquisition simplified
Join the community of 500 libraries around the world that are saving staff time, stretching budgets and creating user-focused collections with Rialto.
One of the most complicated, time-consuming workflows in an academic library is selecting and acquiring books. Hundreds of publishers, thousands of user requests and multiple systems create workstreams that are filled with manual steps and information silos that absorb an already stretched resource: staff time.
Buy faster. Buy smarter.
500 libraries around the world are solving those headaches with Rialto, a marketplace approach that makes selecting and acquiring library resources fast, accurate and transparent. Built on the Alma library services platform, Rialto brings a familiar e-commerce style buying experience to library teams – one resource that spans the entire selection and acquisition process – from search and evaluation, to ordering and approval, to invoicing and activation. With Rialto, selectors and acquisition staff work in a common environment, keeping everyone on the same page, eliminating miscommunication, and preventing duplicate efforts.
Rialto saved our rapidly shrinking staff so much time and effort.
WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY
Everything you need to make informed purchases is at your fingertips with Rialto – no need to double check with other staff or systems. The Rialto marketplace is fully embedded within Alma, surfacing essential library data throughout the purchasing process in real-time, making library holdings, fund balances, and reading list information and more available when it’s needed.
Powerful AI gives you the most relevant book recommendations
Librarians who are pressed for time need a search tool that helps them find title recommendations meeting their criteria, quickly and accurately. Since the very beginning, Rialto has utilized the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to deliver the most relevant search results and recommendations to selectors.
Recommendation feeds can be customized to meet your library’s unique needs and learn based on past purchases and patron engagement. With Rialto’s data insights and machine-learning capabilities, your staff can review the best-fit titles with minimal effort.
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A personalized shopping experience for libraries
Make it easier for staff to find exactly what they need – and what they don’t. Customizable search displays your preferred results first, and real-time activity badges keep everyone in the know and prevent duplication.
Make confident selections in a single step
Rialto surfaces essential data from Alma—such as library holdings and reading list information—directly within the marketplace to ensure you make the best purchases for your budget and your patrons. All in one system.
A smarter approach to evidence-based acquisition
EBA programs are a breeze with Rialto. View your pool alongside other library activity, pin titles to easily track potential purchases, and see planned budget spend in real-time. No spreadsheets or manual tracking required.
Collaborate with ease
Rialto’s shared lists, comments, and tagging capabilities enable teams to work together in a single environment, without duplicate efforts (and long email chains).
Faster ordering with automation
Save time with a streamlined end-to-end purchasing experience. Cart templates automatically populate required fields for orders, fund balances are displayed in real-time, and orders instantly create POLs in Alma.
Rialto Case Studies
Read how Rialto is helping institutions simplify their workflows and enhance their collection development.
- Streamlining Acquisitions Workflows at the University of South Australia
- University of Central Lancashire's Rialto Implementation Journey
- Gaining Efficiencies at the National University of Ireland, Galway
- Closing the Loop for Automation at Georgia Northwestern Technical College Library
- Streamlining Acquisitions at St. Edwards's University
- The University of Edinburgh's Leganto-Rialto Workflow: Streamlining Purchase of Course Materials
- Embracing Automated Ebook Ordering at Charles Sturt University
The implementation experience was so smooth. The Rialto team was so transparent in their communication and so responsive to my many questions. It was really a breeze.
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
Forget implementation headaches
Trusted partners are here to help
Rialto’s implementation is turnkey and it’s on us. Your Rialto will be up and running in a snap, with a dedicated team of librarians and product experts there to support you every step of the way. You’ll enjoy complimentary workflow support along with ongoing collection services that will help you get the most from your budget.
Learn MoreEssential for librarians who value efficiency, collaboration, and ease-of-use
Rialto rebuilt the processes and flow of information to meet the needs of today’s selection and acquisition librarians
Seamless Workflows
Rialto is unified with Alma on the Ex Libris Library Cloud platform to create unmatched workflow efficiencies for librarians.
Collaboration
Rialto improves collaboration among library staff and faculty through real-time activity indicators on titles, shared lists and more.
Ease of use
Rialto’s intuitive design is easy to navigate and quick to learn. It’s easy to find the right titles through facets, ranking and search result grouping.
Expert Support
Our team of librarians and product experts is here to support you every step of the way. We will do the heavy lifting to ensure Rialto meets your library’s goals.
Rialto’s Ebook Marketplace
When it comes to purchasing ebooks, we know choice is essential. With Rialto, your library can search, select, and order from more than 20 leading publisher and aggregator platforms within a single, easy-to-use marketplace. Rialto eliminates the need to purchase separately from individual platforms to simplify invoicing and other workflows. Our growing list of ebook platforms feature content in a range of disciplines and languages, with most platforms offering DRM-free and unlimited access titles.
- Bloomsbury Collections
- Brill
- Cairn.info
- Cambridge Core
- De Gruyter Online
- Ebook Central
- Ebsco eBooks (availability varies by region)
- Elsevier ScienceDirect
- Gale eBooks (availability varies by region)
- IGI Global InfoSci OnDemand
- John Benjamins e-Platform
- JSTOR
- Karger
- Manchester University Press
- Ovid (from Wolters Kluwer)
- Oxford University Press: UPSO
- Project MUSE
- Rittenhouse R2 Digital
- SAGE Knowledge
- Taylor & Francis eBooks
- Torrossa Digital Library from Casalini Libri (availability varies by region)
- Unebook
- Wiley Online Library
- World Scientific E-books
Millions of titles. One marketplace.
40M
Print Books
3.3M+
Ebooks
2.3M
New titles added in 2023
210
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Top 5 Reasons Why Libraries Love Rialto
Rialto interconnects all the data you need to make the best purchasing decisions within a single, streamlined interface. Discover why 500 innovative libraries trust Rialto for their selection and acquisition needs.
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