IGeLU - The International Group of Ex Libris Users

The Primo PWG met for its first formal meeting at the Royal Library of Denmark in Copenhagen on 17th February. Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Deputy Director General of the Royal Library attended the meeting in the morning to welcome us and join a general discussion on Primo. Read more →

As you probably already know a major new version of SFX is imminent. In accordance with the Product Development Collaboration Agreement between Ex Libris, IGeLU and ELUNA that meant a new round of collaborative testing. After a call for volunteers from the customer base the Product Working Groups of IGeLU and ELUNA selected four participants covering as broad a customer range as possible: Read more →

The Verde customer survey (in which sites were asked to identify their priority areas for any product development resource that might be available) has now been completed. The ELUNA and IGeLU Verde PWGs will now compile the responses and present the outcomes to all Verde customers. Read more →

At the end of April IGeLU’s web team – a group of volunteers who have committed to maintaining, administrating, and updating the IGeLU website – will be meeting in Berlin. This will be the first face-to-face meeting for the web team, and the aim will be to share knowledge about the website with a wider group, so that the burden doesn’t all fall on a single person. Read more →

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 →