The Voyager Product Working Group members are busy on different fronts: planning for the Ghent conference and working with ELUNA counterparts on the Voyager enhancement process and how this will be incorporated into the New Enhancement Request System (NERS). We still have a little time to thrash out the details, and hope to learn from the experiences of Primo and DigiTool.
In more general Voyager news, v.7.2 is in general release. Among other improvements, this version runs on a Linux platform – and you may have seen the announcement on Voyager-l of the first site, Harding University, that has now moved to Linux. We discussed with Mike Dicus, Ex Libris Voyager Product Manager, about the shift of installations / upgrade work from Chicago to Israel. There was some concern about the affect this might have on upgrade schedules – Mike reassured us that Israel would still run upgrades from Mondays if the site preferred, but that the move would mean that it would also be possible to run upgrades from a Sunday, potentially making it easier to schedule significant downtimes.
Note also the news from Ex Libris that Voyager documentation is now, at last, available from Doc Portal.
Habib Tabatabai
