Conference 2008, Program and Presentations

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Monday, 8 September 2008

Opening Session
Welcome Remarks, Carmen Peláez, CSIC Vice President of Organization and Institutional Realisations
Chair’s Report on IGeLU activities
Jiri Kende, Free University of Berlin, IGeLU Chair
Ex Libris Report, Matti Shem Tov, Ex Libris
Plenary Session: Next Gen ILS, Moderator: Dale Flecker, Harvard University, US
Oren Beit-Arie and Kathryn Harnish, Ex Libris
Follow-up Panel: Next Gen ILS, Moderator: Dale Flecker, Harvard University, US
Bob Wolven, Columbia University, US
Carlen Ruschoff, University of Maryland Libraries, US
Kristiina Hormia-Putanen, National Library of Finland
User Experiences SFX, MetaLib, Aleph, Moderator: Lukas Koster, University of Amsterdam, NL
Expanding the Reach of SFX: how to Choose and Build Custom Extensions for SFX
Mark Dehmlow, University of Notre Dame, US
Integration and Disintegration of Electronic Library Services, Daniel Forsman, Jonkoping University, Sweden
User Experiences Voyager, Moderator: Tarja Mäkinen, National Library Finland
Experiences of the Voyager 7 Field Testing and Other Topics, Bob Trotter, University of Georgia, US
Voyager Business-Meeting, Michael Fake, London School of Economics
ILS Consortium SIWG, Moderator: Peter Klien, The Austrian Library Network and Services Ltd.
Measurement of individual license usage in clustered Aleph instances, Wolfgang Hamedinger, The Austrian Library Network and Services Ltd.
Ex Libris Q&A: Future of ILS Consortia
Kathryn Harnish, Karen Groves Ex Libris
DigiTool, Moderator: Guido Goedemé, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Belgie
DigiTool Product Working Group: Report of the Year 2007-2008, Guido Goedemé, Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Belgie
DigiTool roadmap presentation, Tomer Paz, Ex Libris
DPS, Yaniv Levy, Ex Libris (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center )
Verde, Moderator: Richard Cross, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Verde Interoperability with Voyager and SFX: Implementation of Verde at RMT, Full Paper, Richard McCart, RMIT Univ. Australia
Verde in a consortial environment, first experience,
Andreas Sabisch, Free University Berlin, Germany
Product Working Group Business Meeting, Andreas Sabisch, Free University Berlin, Germany
Discussion Group
Why do we need a next generation ILS?

Tuesday, 9 September 2008

IGeLU Assembly of Members (Business Session)
Plenary Session: Securing the Future, Moderator: Simon Huggard, Monash University, Australia
Digital Perservation at the National Library of New Zealand, Steve Knight, National Library of New Zealand
Follow-up Panel on Digital Preservation, Moderator: Simon Huggard, Monash University, Australia
Simon Bains, National Library of Scotland
Esa-Pekka Keskitalo, National Library of Finland
Joseph Shubitowski, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, US
User Experiences MetaLib/SFX, Moderator: Inga Overkamp, Max Planck Digital Library, Germany
Nelli’s User Centered Enhancements for MetaLib and SFX, Ere Maijala, National Library of Finland
Nelli’s Tuning Overview, Ere Maijala, National Library of Finland
RSS from MetaLib, Ere Maijala, National Library of Finland
User Experiences MetaLib/SFX, Moderator: Nikki Crowster, Cape Higher Education Consortium, SA
Integration of MetaLib and Learning Management Systems, Erkki Tolonen, National Library of Finland
Institutional repository integration into MetaLib and SFX, Immaculada Ribes-Llopes and Victor Garcia Pau, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Aleph, Moderator: Gerard Bennett, University of Westminster, UK
Aleph Product Update and Q&A, Karen Groves, Ex Libris (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center
User Experience Statistics, Moderator: Mark Dehmlow, University of Notre Dame, US
Digital resource user statistics: LibStat – a unified library usage statistics database [Metalib/SFX], Part II Lukas Koster, Roxana Maria Popistasu, University of Amsterdam, NL
E-Resources usage statistics with EzProxy, Simon Huggard, Monash University, Australia
User Experience MetaLib, SFX, Moderator: Nikki Crowster, Cape Higher Education Consortium, SA
Minority Report: Usability Studies for MetaLib Interface optimisation, Elena Menéndez-Alonso University of Plymouth, UK
Implementation and Exploitation of MetaLib and SFX in a National Library, Juan Jose Alvarez Galan, National Library of Spain
DigiTool, Moderator: Matthias Gross, Bavarian State Library, Germany
DigiTool Enhancements, Tomer Paz, Ex Libris
DigiTool harvesting by Google – Implementation and system requirements, Tomer Paz, Ex Libris
User Experience Voyager, Moderator: Habib Tabatabai, University of Central Oklahoma, US
Cracking the Code – Decrypting Voyager and passing signals to institutional systems, Peter Price, University of Plymouth, UK
From Data to Discovery – Building automated cataloguing tools with Perl, Huw Jones, Cambridge University, UK
Discussion Group
Why do we need a next generation ILS?
Poster Session
Get Rid of the e-book in SFX knowledge base, Inga Overkamp and Silvia Munding, Max Planck Society, Germany
If I were the only libarian in the world … , Nikki Herriott, University of Gloucestershire, UK
ALEPH 500: gateways and interfaces to/from different other software systems, Günter Hupfer, HBZ, Germany
Drawing up a strategy for online viewing of bibliographic records of old collections at Mihai Eminescu Central University Library, Carmen Diaconescu and Ivona Olariu, Mihai Eminescu Central University, Romania
Going Green – Verde preparation and planting, Handout Peter Price, University of Plymouth, UK
Primo, Moderator: N.N.
Primo Product Update and Q&A, Gilad Gal, Ex Libris (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center )
User Experience Primo, Moderator: Clare Whittaker, Scottish Digital Library Consortia, UK
Primo Implementation at the British Library, Mandy Stewart, British Library, UK
SUPrimo at the University of Strathclyde, Nick Joint, University of Strathclyde, UK
The Implementing of Primo at the College Center of Library Automation, Gary Johnson, CCLA, US
Aleph-Business Meeting, Moderator: Gerard Bennett, University of Westminster, UK
Report, Gerard Bennett, University of Westminster, UK
WIKI and Website, Marcus Zerbst, Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Aleph Enhancements, Mike Ryan, CCLA, US
SFX, Moderator: Mark Dehmlow, University of Notre Dame, US
SFX Product Update and Q&A, Christine Stohn, Ex Libris (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center )
MetaLib, Moderator: Lukas Koster, University of Amsterdam, NL
MetaLib Product Update and Q&A, Karen Groves, Ex Libris (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center )
User Experiences DigiTool, Moderator: Peter Verhaar, Leiden University, NL
Digitool as a SFX Target, Matthias Gross, Bavarian State Library, Germany
Digital Repository – Making use of handles, Kevin Nguyen, University of Melbourne, Australia
Strengths and limitations of DigiTool to participate in projects of international nature, Barbara de Solano, National Library of Spain
Voyager Moderator: Michael Fake, London School of Economics, UK
Voyager Product Update and Q&A, Mike Dicus, Ex Libris (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center )
User Experiences Aleph, Voyager, Moderator: Simon Huggard, Monash University, Australia
RSS – A to V: Using RSS feeds with Aleph and Voyager, Ed Corrado, Binghampton University, US
Rescuing a sinking ship – Replacing Voyager Universal Catalog with Aleph Central Catalog, Esa Kurki, National Library of Finland
SFX-Business Meeting, Moderator: Mark Dehmlow, University of Notre Dame, US
MetaLib-Business Meeting, Moderator: Lukas Koster, University of Amsterdam, NL
E-Books and DigiTool – round table discussion, Moderator: Guido Goedemé, Koninglijke Bibliotheek van Belgie
Pascal Calarco, University of Notre Dame, US
Joseph M. Shubitowski, Getty Research Institut, US
Special Libraries-Business Meeting, Moderator: Jesus Bustamente, Cedefop
Verde, Moderator: Andreas Sabisch, Free University Berlin, Germany
Verde Product Update and Q&A, Nettie Lagace, Ex Libris (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center )

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

User Experiences Aleph, Moderator: Nadine Hill, University of Bristol, UK
Extending the OPAC, Integrating WorldCat, maps and more into Aleph, Mark Dehmlow, University of Notre Dame, US
A diversity of data – Adventures in ALEPH batch loading, Pascal Calarco, University of Notre Dame, US
Common Knowledge, Moderator: Jirka Kende, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Customer Wiki, Beate Rusch, KOBV-Consortia, Germany
Open Platform, Tamar Sadeh, Ex Libris (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center )
Collaborative Testing – Experiences, Richard Cross, Gerard Bennett, Simon Huggard
Enhancement Procedures, Lukas Koster, Guido Goedemé, Gerard Bennett, Simon Huggard
User Experiences: Change in two hemisphere, Moderator: Michele Newberry, FCLA, US
Finnish System Architecture Project, Ari Rouvari, National Library of Finland
The first step toward a real U-Library starts at YUL, Yongmin Lee, Cheolmin Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
User Experiences: DigiTool, Moderator: Luis Miquel Costa, University of Porto, Portugal
Presenting highlights and recent acquisitions in DigiTool, Peter Verhaar, Leiden University, NL
DigiTool and the institutional repository of the University of Lisbon, Eugénia Santos, University of Lisbon, Portugal
User Experiences: Voyager, Moderator: Eevaliisa Colb, National Library of Finland
Lets VRS (Voyager Reporting System) work for you, Bob Trotter, University of Georgia, US
How to take a fiscal snapshot of Voyager Acquisitions – using Access to capture data, Janet Lute, Princeton University, US
Ex Libris General Q&A, Moderator: Peter Klien, The Austrian Library Network and Service Ltd.
Closing Session
Report from the breakout sessions on why we need a new ILS, Dale Flecker, Harvard University, US (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center )
E-Book Focus Group Report. Ex Libris Response and Discussion and Group Discussion, Moderator: Peter Klien, The Austrian Library Network and Service Ltd. (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center )
Dale Flecker, Harvard University, US
Paul Ayris, University College London, UK
Kathryn Harnish, Ex Libris
Conference goodbyes
Reporting on voting results
Brief presentation on Ex Libris Customer Satisfaction Survey, Don Mucchino, Ex Libris