IGeLU - The International Group of Ex Libris Users

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 →

The call for presentations for IGeLU 2010, August 30-September 1 in Ghent, Belgium is online

In this issue: From Helsinki to Ghent + Paddling Like A Swan: Organizing the Helsinki Conference + Primo PWG Primed & Ready + A Note on RDA + What I Learned in Helsinki: The Voyage of Voyager + Metalib the Road to the Next Generation + The Verde Roadmap + New Steering Committee + Alpha Beate: Letters from Abroad + Feeding Twitter + A New Name for NERS + Words from Helsinki + On Sacred Cows + The T Read more →

The IGeLU 2009 presentations are available on line here:
http://igelu.org/conference-2009-program-and-presentations.

If you like to send open-ended feedback about the Helsinki conference, please share your thoughts at http://igelu2009.org/wall/ Thank you!

You can send your IGeLU 2009 feedback online at http://igelu2009.org/igelu-2009-conference-questionnaire/ if you haven’t already returned the printed questionnaire.

The winning name for the new enhancement request system (working title NERS) in the contest held at the IGeLU 2009 meeting in Helsinki is:
CORE.
The name was submitted by Liliana Bernardis of the University of Udine, Italy. Liliana received the first prize, a set of Finnish design glasses, from Pascal Calarco and Bob Trotter, chair and member of the ELUNA Steering Committee. Read more →

The IGeLU 2010 Conference will be hosted by the Library of Ghent Unversity, Belgium, August 30-September 1.

The IGeLU 2011 Conference will be hosted by the Library of Haifa University, Israel, in conjunction with the Ex Libris 2011 System Seminar.

At the IGeLU 2009 meeting in Helsinki there were changes in two PWG’s.
Guido Goedemé, Coordinator of the DigiTool PWG reached the end of his term and will retire from working at the Royal Library of Belgium next year. Guido has been succeeded by Luis Miguel Costa of the University of Porto, Portugal. We all hope to meet Guido again at IGeLU 2010 in Ghent, Belgium next year! Read more →