Aleph

The 2012 enhancement voting cycle was completed successfully on March 21st, and as a result six enhancements were forwarded to Ex Libris for development. We anticipate the most, if not all, of these enhancements will be included in a December 2012 service pack. The final enhancement descriptions are posted elsewhere on the website. This...
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The Aleph PWG has been working to collect additional information on the 30 enhancement requests that received the highest vote totals in the October voting.  Each IGeLU request initiator was contacted, and the information collated and submitted to ExLibris for pointing. The final round of voting is scheduled for March 1st -15th 2012. Mike...
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The ELUNA and IGeLU Aleph Product Working Groups are pleased to announce that the first round of enhancement voting will begin on Oct. 15. Voting will close on Nov. 1. Each institution will be able to apply 100 points to as many requests as desired. The developments will be included in Aleph in 2012,...
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The Aleph PWG met at Haifa for a product update by Carmit Marcus, the Ex Libris Aleph Product Manager, as well as for the annual business meeting. This meeting was very well attended (with additional chairs brought in to accommodate the large audience). Carmit reviewed the many IGeLU enhancements that will be in version...
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As usual, Aleph PWG work is mostly focused on enhancements.  The NERS is open for requests for the 2012 voting cycle.  If you have any old requests that are still in the ICAU database that you wish to present for voting, please reenter and update them in NERS.  We have now begun the process...
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IGeLU and ELUNA coordinate our enhancement voting cycles using the new cooperative enhancement request system, NERS.  Thus, IGeLU will no longer use the old ICAU system.   Members of IGeLU and ELUNA submit requests into NERS and the requests will be votable to both organizations, regardless of where the idea came from.   IGeLU and ELUNA...
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Mike Ryan, Aleph PWG Coordinator, met at the ELUNA conference in early May, with the ELUNA PWG and Mark Dehmlow to continue NERS discussions.  IGeLU and ELUNA will have simultaneous enhancement voting processes on NERS beginning this fall.  We anticipate that we will be ready to begin accepting new Aleph enhancement requests in NERS...
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The Aleph 2011 enhancement voting has finished. The Aleph PWG module coordinators will next review, comment upon and approve development specifications for each enhancement, as they are received from Ex Libris.  In the next months we can expect to get 15 sets of specs for our 2010 and 2011 voting cycles. However we are...
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Because of intermittent problems that some sites have had this week with accessing the voting database, the deadline for the final round of Aleph 21 enhancements has been extended. You now have until January 13 to cast your votes.  If you haven’t already taken a moment to make your voice heard please do so...
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The final round of this year’s voting on the enhancements for Aleph is now open. This is a little later than planned – the delay having being caused by the work involved in discussion, clarification, assessment and allocation of points, by ourselves and Ex Libris. The voting will remain open through January 7, 2011...
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