IGeLU - The International Group of Ex Libris Users

This is another reminder that registration is now open for the IGeLU 2010 Conference in the beautiful Belgian city of Ghent – http://igelu2010.org

We now also have a draft version of the programme available http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tUL0xVbKYk4PNYaCky86_eg&output=ht... Read more →

In response to suggestions from the user community, and due to the progress of the URM development, Ex Libris announced at the end of May a change in the structure and work of the URM Focus Groups. Read more →

Since the beginning of the year Ex Libris have offered more and more training courses in its new Learning Center (http://learn.exlibrisgroup.com/) with many interactive sessions – from basic functionality to new developments of its products. Access to the Learning Center is available to all Ex Libris customers as a subscription service. Read more →

In time honoured tradition the IGeLU National User Groups (INUG) meeting will take place again on the Sunday, 29th August, just before the annual conference. Representatives of the National User Groups will meet with each other, the Steering Committee, and the Product Working Group Coordinators, where feedback will be provided on the past year’s activities. Read more →

…NERS! After naming competitions run by each user organization, IGeLU and ELUNA, which both produced two strong candidate names (CORE, for Cooperation Oriented to Resources Enhancements, and EVA, for Enhancements Voting and Analysis) the decision was made to… keep NERS (New Enhancement Request System)! Read more →

The Aleph PWG has been very busy of late preparing for and holding the first round of the annual enhancement process. The first round of voting was completed on 17 May. The 30 requests that received the highest votes have now been forwarded to ExLibris for “pointing” in preparation for the final round of voting currently planned for 20 September to 1 October. Read more →

In May 2010, the ELUNA Conference was held in Fort Worth, Texas. Nine IGeLU representatives attended, providing the PWG Coordinators with an opportunity to meet with their ELUNA counterparts, and to find out, review, and question the latest Ex Libris developments and directions.

The main topics of discussions between the Coordinators were as follows:
A) Administrative issues: Read more →

We’re happy to announce that the registration for the 5th IGeLU conference in Ghent from 30th August – 1st September 2010 is now open at http://igelu2010.org Read more →

Voyager users will take advantage of NERS as we embark on the enhancement request journey. IGeLU and ELUNA VPWGs are working together, with investigations currently under way on how best to migrate all past enhancement requests into the new system, and talks with the NERS development team progressing on how to take the process forwards. Read more →

The MetaLib PWG had it’s first face-to-face meeting of 2010 on March 29, at the Library of the University of Amsterdam. Planning for the event was carried out using Google Wave, and a number of topics were covered at the meeting: Read more →

• EL Commons wiki – improving the structure and management of the MetaLib section

• IGeLU 2010 conference in Ghent – how to get more MetaLib proposals