Conference 2007 Program and Presentations

Monday, 3 September 2007

Opening Session
Chair’s Report on IGeLU Activies
Jiri Kende (IGeLU Chair)
Ex Libris Report, Matti Shem Tov (Ex Libris)
Ex Libris Strategy, Oren Beit-Arie (Ex Libris)
Primo Presentation, Tamar Sadeh (Ex Libris)
Examining our ILS, Moderator: Simon Huggard
ILS Trends and Expectations from the Users
Sharon Hu and Azungwe Kwembe (Chicago State University)
Aleph vs Voyager: The Good, The Bad, but Who’s the Ugly?
Daniel Forsman (Jonkoping University Library)
Take it or leave it? A Review of Voyager at NLS
Gill Hamilton (National Library of Scotland)
MetaLib-SFX PWG Business Meeting
Moderated by Lukas Koster, Reports and Documents
DigiTool PWG Business Meeting
Moderated by Pascal Calarco, Reports and Documents
Sponsor Program
How to implement RFID for libraries: Integration with Aleph
Jürgen Jedek, Bibliotheca RFID Library Systems AG
Syndetic Solutions: Enriching the user experience
Ian Pattenden, Bowker
Aleph Product Update, Moderator: Gerard Bennett
What’s New, What’s coming (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center ) and Questions and Answers,
Dalia Mendelsson and Kathryn Harnish (Ex Libris)
SFX Product Update, Moderator: Richard Cross, Theo Engelman
What’s New, What’s coming (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center ) and Questions and Answers,
Nettie Lagace and Ted Koppel (Ex Libris)
Voyager Consortial Angles, Moderator: Bob Trotter
Using server performance statistics to make consortium fees fairer,
Clare Whittaker (Scottish Digital Library Consortium)
How Golf Handicaps Affect the Maintenance of Voyager
Angus Shaw (Hertford Regional College/University of Hertfordshire)
It’s All About DigiTool, Moderator: Guido Goedemé
From DigiTool to Aleph and Back Again: Metadata Synchronization
Matthias Gross (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Germany)
DigiTool for Course Support at Notre Dame
Pascal Calarco (University of Notre Dame)
Digitool 3.0 at Leiden University Library,
Peter Verhaar (University Library, Leiden)
Managing Media Objects with DigiTool and External Streaming Services
Luís Miguel Costa (Faculdade de Engenharia UP)
Re-designing the MetaLib front end, Moderator: Margaret Flett
Coming to Terms with Search: Re-implementing MetaLib at Notre Dame,
Mark Dehmlow (University of Notre Dame)
Integration of SFX A-Z list into MetaLib,
Ere Maijala (National Library of Finland)

Tuesday, 4 September 2007

Discovery Tools, Moderator: Dale Flecker
Marshall Breeding (Vanderbilt University)
FCLA Endeca Project
Michele Newberry (Florida Center for Library Automation)
The Danish Primo Project
Jørgen Madsen (Det Kongelige Bibliotek)
Follow-up Panel with the Presentors
IGeLU Assembly of Members: Business meeting
Moderated by Jiri Kende, Reports and Documents
Poster Session Presentations
Abstracts
Ex Libris General Questions and Answers Moderator: Peter Klien
On the Panel: Matti Shem Tov (President & CEO), Marc Daubach (Corporate VP and General Manager Europe), Nancy Dushkin (VP Marketing), Einat Zviran (VP Development), Oren Beit-Arie (Chief Strategy Officer)
Examining our ILS, Moderator: Clare Whittaker, Gerard Bennett
Push and pull of the OPAC,
Daniel Forsman (Jonkoping University Library)
Panel discussion on the Next Gen ILS with Sharon Hu, Azungwe Kwembe, Daniel Forsman, Gill Hamilton, Marshall Breeding, Michele Newberry and Oren Beit-Arie
MetaLib Product Update, Moderator: Lukas Koster, Gaspar Olmedo
What’s New, What’s coming (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center ) and Questions and Answers,
Karen Groves (Ex Libris)
Improving the Voyager user experience (Part 1)
Link Checking in Voyager,
Simon Huggard (Monash University)
Top 10 (or so) WebVoyage Hacks,
Edward M. Corrado (The College of New Jersey)
DigiTool Product Update, Moderator: Matthias Gross
What’s New, What’s coming (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center ) and Questions and Answers,
Yaniv Levi (Ex Libris)
Sponsor Program
Sun Innovative Solutions for the Digital Library
Juan Ramon Alegret (Sun Microsystems)
Verde, Moderator: Stefan Lohrum
Experiences with Verde in the FAK Consortia Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany,
Andreas Sabisch (Freie Universität Berlin)
Verde Implementation at UGent
Paul Bastijns (University of Gent)
Implementing Verde
Richard Cross (Nottingham Trent University)
Verde PWG Business Meeting
Moderated by Andreas Sabisch, Reports and Documents

Wednesday, 5 September 2007

Impact of E-books on Library Services, Moderator: Beate Rusch
The Impact of e-Books on Library Services
Hazel Woodward, (Cranfield University, UK)
Report from E-book Focus Group, Dale Flecker (Harvard)
Aleph PWG Business Meeting
Moderated by Gerard Bennett, Reports and Documents
MetaLib Miscellanea, Moderator: Anne-Gry Skonnord
Less is More: Results from a MetaLib Users Survey,
Stefan Lohrum (KOBV)
MetaLib Copy Cataloging in Uniform Information Gateway
Martin Ledinsky (Charles University)
Improving the Voyager user experience (Part 2), Moderator: Annu Jauhiainen
Harvesting the crop: Voyager and OAI-PMH
Ere Maijala (National Library of Finland)
In Search of the Lost Book: Improving Library Usability,
Petteri Kivimäki (Helsinki University of Technology Library)
Developing new RFID devices and features
Ari Muhonen (Helsinki University of Technology Library)
Special Libraries Session, Moderator: Jesús Bustamante
How to use RSS feeds based on Aleph’s webOPAC on Eurocid portal,
Carlos Medeiros and André Silva (CIEJD)
SFXAdmin secure? A Casual Field Study,
José Luis Galán Cabilla, José María Carrillo González (Banco de España – Library)
OpenURL in all E-Journal Editor Sites,
Pierre Drijvers (Solvay)
Special Libraries SIWG report,
Jesús Bustamante (Cedefop)
Minutes,
Jesús Bustamante (Cedefop)
Verde Product Update, Moderator: Andreas Sabisch
New Roadmap (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center ) and Questions and Answers,
Nettie Lagace and Ted Koppel (Ex Libris)
ARC Special Interest Working Group Meeting, Moderator: Marcus Zerbst
Product Update/What’s New, (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center )
Dalia Mendelsohn (Ex Libris)
MetaLib/SFX Consortia Special Interest Working Group Meeting, Moderator: Ari Rouvari
Managing E-Resources in Consortia Environement
Jukka Pennanen, Leena Salminen (National Library of Finland)
Automatic Gathering of MetaLib Statistics
Ere Maijala (National Library of Finland)
Voyager Product Update, Moderator: Simon Huggard
What’s New (Find it at: Ex Libris Documentation Center ) and Questions and Answers
N.N. (Ex Libris)
Aleph Consortia Special Interest Working Group Meeting
Moderated by Peter Klien, Reports and Documents