IGeLU - The International Group of Ex Libris Users

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 →

The first Ex Libris User Interface Seminar with ICAU took place in November 2001 in Hamburg, Germany. The main task of the seminar was to establish an organizational and methodological framework for a long term process of development collaboration concerning the new client interface. The whole process of the new client interface development should take about 12 – 18 months for all modules. Read more →

For further information on the results of this Focus Group please have a look at the Power-Point presentation of Martin Vojnar. Download the file below.

Timeline and activities

The Group was formed February 2004.

• April 2004 – The team has iterated through 4 drafts of the Reports, titled “Functionality for a New ALEPH Staff Permissions Module”.

• June 2004 – Final report submitted to Ex Libris, discussion on the Requirement Specifications.

In summer 2005 Ex Libris suggested a new focus group on the ILL module, which is currently being rewritten for version 18.

Ezra Schwartz, former employee of Ex Libris, now freelance interface designer, and Jirka Kende from the ICAU SC were asked to put together and to lead the new focus Read more →

Goals

The Course Reserves Focus Group began work in December 2005 and submitted a list of ideas for fixing the Reserves Module to Ex Libris at the end of January 2006. The goal is to achieve improvements for the Reserve Module in version 19 of ALEPH500. Read more →

Members

• Kathleen Isaacson, Lawrence Univ.

• Ellen Jones, U. of Iowa (chair)

Participants

• Mark Ellingsen, University of Bristol, UK
• Randy Norwood, Texas Tech University, USA
• Greg Lee, College Center for Library Automation, Florida, USA
• Owen Stephens, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, UK
• Ed Gomes, Duke University, USA
• Carmit Marcus, Ex Libris
• Gilad Efrati, Ex Libris

• Petr Zabicka, Moravian Library Czech Republic