IGeLU - The International Group of Ex Libris Users

In 2009 we accepted the offer from Haifa University, Israel, to host a joint IGeLU conference and system seminar in 2011. We have continued discussions with Ex Libris management and the Haifa organising committee about the most efficient way to organise these two events in order to keep the costs for our members as low as possible. Read more →

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. Read more →

The Verde PWG, in cooperation with our ELUNA counterparts, are preparing a survey on possible enhancements to prioritize for the Ex Libris development team. As Verde customers already know, Ex Libirs have only committed to developing small enhancements which won’t affect the fundamental architecture of Verde. Read more →

NERS was used for the first time by Primo customers in December 2009, in order to vote on a list of forty enhancements. These had been filtered from a much larger list sent to the Ex-Libris Primo Product Manager, Gilad Gal. As the Primo customers were pioneers there were some predictable glitches in getting the system working but the process was ultimately successful. Read more →

The MetaLib PWG has been busily working on a number of items:

MetaLib Next Gen – Use Case Scenarios:
We are still keen to have input from the MetaLib community into these use case scenarios. Visit EL Commons at http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=24610263
and add your comments. We need input from Academic and especially non-academic libraries.

MetaLib Survey: Read more →

As DigiTool customers will already have heard from ExLibris, the roadmap for Rosetta has changed, with the product now scheduled to become part of the first version of the URM. This new roadmap will delay the launch of Rosetta, and so ExLibris have decided to launch a new minor version of DigiTool before the end of 2010 (DigiTool 3.3). Read more →

ARC users have awaited enhancements for a long time, and recently the Aleph Minor Release v.20.1.0 became available, which integrates 17 new fields! This is a success for the IGeLU ARC SIWG and good news for most of the ARC users. Why only “most”? Read more →

Thinking of submitting a proposal for the Ghent conference? Some further reflections on the Aleph component at the Helsinki conference may give you some ideas about how to make a presentation interesting and engaging: Read more →

At the beginning of March 2010 the Steering Committee will hold its regular between-conferences meeting. This time it will be in Ghent, where we will have a chance to approve the final budget for the conference and discuss with the very enthusiastic organising committee any questions that are still outstanding. Read more →

Based on the Product Development Cooperation Agreement of May 13, 2008, talks have been conducted between Ex Libris, IGeLU and ELUNA to come to a procedure for submitting and prioritising requests by IGeLU and ELUNA members for new databases and targets for SFX and MetaLib. Read more →