This is a friendly reminder that IGeLU membership fees are due for payment by the 30th April 2019. Invoices for 2019 membership fees can be obtained from https://igelu.org/about/membership/update-membership-details-and-pay-membership-dues. General membership details can be obtained from https://igelu.org/about/membership. If there are any questions please contact the...
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Registration for the 14th Annual IGeLU conference in August 2019 will be hosted by the Singapore Management University Libraries is open. The Conference The conference starts Tuesday, August 27th and will end Thursday, August 29th at the MAX Atrai Exposition Center. It will be...
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Membership:Following ELUNA 2018, the Voyager WG said goodbye to Suzanne Picken (Washington Research Library Consortium) and welcomed Jennifer Masciadrelli (Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois).  Jennifer’s departure from the VWG at the end of 2018, following CARLI’s move from Voyager to Alma,...
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Members of the Rosetta Working Group are finalising new enhancement requests for the 6.2 development cycle, which are due with Ex Libris mid-April. If you are a Rosetta customer and have enhancement ideas that you would like one of the Rosetta subgroups to pick...
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The IGeLU Primo/Metalib Working Group was happy to welcome a new member last autumn, Amin Hussain from University of Manchester, bringing the number of participants to 11. (See https://igelu.org/products/primo for the full list of names.)  Amin enriched the group with Primo VE experience, and...
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NERS enhancements process:It’s not quite Eurovision, but nearly as exciting… 2019 NERS voting has now closed.  There were 75 requests in the ballot. Six requests did not receive any votes. 46 customers voted spread over the following territories: Europe:  4 North America: 17 UK:...
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The Linked Open Data Working Group sponsored a very interesting Show & Tell on August 29, 2018, “Making Linked Data: Catalogers’ Views from the Front Edge.” Two leaders in technical services shared their insights about cataloging/creating metadata natively as linked data, through their experience...
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