IGeLU 2026 – Program Overview

Last Updated: June 6, 2026

(1) Conference Session Titles (19-21 Oct)

Traditional Conference plenary sessions

Community sessions

  1. Access Under Pressure: Accessibility in Specto
  2. Analytics Workshop [Workshop]
  3. Applications of AI in Library Services – A Case Study of the NTUL
  4. Beyond the Black Box: Reimagining Primo VE Discovery with Explainable AI
  5. Breaking Boundaries: Integrating Alma, Primo VE, and CaiaSoft for Cross-Institutional Collaborative Collections
  6. Bridging Library Expertise and User Insights: Rethinking Usability and Configuration in the NDE UI
  7. Bridging Users from Frustrations to Discovery Beyond Primo VE
  8. Early birds get the worms? Perspectives on early adoption of Primo NDE [Panel]
  9. Experiences and lessons learned from two years of our Controlled Digital Lending programme
  10. Expose or Suppress? The Alma Top-Level Collection Dilemma
  11. From insight to implementation: A user-centred transition to Primo’s NDE UI
  12. From Score to Strategy: Using Bibliographic Rank and AI for Metadata Remediation at Scale
  13. Hidden Pearls: Technological Insights from a Large-Scale Library Integration
  14. How to Train Your AI Cataloger – Local Theses Cataloging Automation and Subject Heading
  15. Instructor engagement and the Leganto AI Syllabus Assistant: turning challenges into opportunities in the academic environment [Workshop]
  16. Making Alma Visible: Improving the Patron Dashboard Experience
  17. Mapping Engineering Courses and Leganto to Support Teaching & Learning
  18. Modernising Alma External User Management: Finding the Right Balance Between Automation and Control
  19. Pearls for Everyone: Accessibility in Primo NDE at SLSP
  20. Pearls from Daily Friction: Thinking Deeply About Alma, Primo, APIs, and User Workflows in a Korean Academic Library
  21. Preserving the Legacy of Hong Kong’s First Private University: Integrating University History into Alma Digital
  22. Quick and dirty or slow and clean? How to decide which method is best for your metadata project
  23. Reading Together: Integrating Hebrew and Arabic Academic Libraries into One Bilingual Library.
  24. Setting up a lost books process in Alma at King’s College London
  25. Systematically Disadvantaged: How Primo Discovery Fails Non-English Students and What We Can Do About It
  26. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Alma
  27. The Pearl in the Shell: Looking Inside AI Search
  28. Think Deeply, Act Practically: Data-Driven Journal Reorganization in Alma
  29. Thinking Beyond the Local: How Rialto Collection Development Supports Shared Print Workflows
  30. Transforming Resource Management: The Synergy Model for Full Leganto Implementation at Tel-Hai University
  31. Troubleshooting the Transition: A Focused Feedback Session Six Months Post-Migration
  32. Where is 220? Solving Library Navigation with Interactive Shelf Mapping
  33. [More to be added]
  34. …

IGeLU sessions

All these sessions are open to all. Come and join us for an update on the activities of the working groups, sometimes together with Clarivate library solutions updates.

  1. Aleph Working Group Open Meeting and Aleph Product Update
  2. Alma Digital Working Group Open Meeting
  3. Alma Working Group Open Meeting
  4. Analytics Community of Practice Open Meeting
  5. Conference First Timers and What is IGeLU!
  6. Consortia Community of Practice Open Meeting
  7. Content Working Group Open Meeting
  8. Customer Support Advisory Group Open Meeting
  9. Esploro Working Group Meeting
  10. Leganto Working Group Open Meeting
  11. Linked Open Data Community of Practice Open Meeting
  12. Mixpanel Focus Group Open Meeting
  13. Primo Working Group Open Meeting
  14. RapidILL Working Group Open Meeting
  15. Rapido Working Group Open Meeting
  16. Rialto Working Group Open Meeting
  17. Rosetta Working Group Open Meeting and Rosetta Product Update
  18. Why Are People Not Adopting Certain Features? Survey Results

Sessions given by Gold and Silver Third-Party Supporters

  1. Research Solutions
  2. Third Iron

Clarivate sessions

Plenary sessions
  1. Growing Forward, Together​: Navigating change. Delivering impact.
  2. Evolving with Change: Trends, Impact and What’s Next for Libraries​
  3. From Information to Intelligence: Shaping Experiences Together
Half plenary sessions
  1. Alma Specto + Customer
  2. Rapido + Customer
  3. What’s Next for Clarivate’s Academic AI: Agentic Workflows, MCP Integrations, and Quality evaluation [To be confirmed]

During IGeLU Conferences, Half Plenary sessions are scheduled alongside presentations from our Gold Supporters, offering attendees a diverse range of parallel content.

Breakout sessions
  1. Advancing Linked Data Adoption and Adaption in Alma and Primo
  2. Alma AI Overview: Assistants, Agents, and the Path Forward
  3. Alma Analytics: Latest Developments and What’s Next
  4. Alma Product Conversation
  5. Alma Specto Preservation
  6. Alma Specto Product Conversation
  7. Alma Specto Starter Product Conversation
  8. Building AI Agents with Library Open Workflows
  9. Content Innovation and Operational Enhancements
  10. Empowering Student Discovery Using AI in Discovery
  11. Evolving Customer Care – Driving Impact Through Innovation and Collaboration
  12. From Data to Decisions: Reimagining Collection Development for today’s libraries
  13. From Requests to Capabilities: A Holistic Metadata Operating Model for Alma
  14. Inside the Primo NDE UI
  15. Leganto Product Conversation
  16. Primo Product Conversation
  17. RapidILL Product Update
  18. Rapido Product Update
  19. Rialto Product Conversation
  20. Streamlining Content Delivery & Ingest Workflows: A partnership bridging content providers and Ex Libris
  21. [A few more sessions may be added]

In addition to all those sessions:

  • You will find in the program different joint sessions where Clarivate staff members co-present with IGeLU officers or community members
  • Clarivate is also organising their Knowledge Day (see below).

(2) Developers Day Session Titles (22 Oct)

  1. Measuring What Matters: A scalable method for AI search tool evaluation
  2. [More to be added]
  3. …

As the IGeLU Developers Day sessions take place concurrently with the Clarivate Knowledge Day, participants are required to choose between the two, as dual registration is not permitted this year.

(3) Clarivate Knowledge Day Session Titles (22 Oct)

  1. A Spotlight on Functionalities you can Enable to Maximize your Primo VE Experience
  2. AI based tools in Primo VE
  3. Discovery Interface Display Logic Rules to improve end user experience
  4. Leganto Analytics
  5. Linked Data Developments in Alma and Primo VE
  6. Primo VE NDE reporting via Mixpanel
  7. Primo VE NDE View Configurations
  8. The AI Metadata Assistant
  9. The Linked Open Data Editor for BIBFRAME – Hands on exercises
  10. The Linked Open Data Editor for BIBFRAME – Introduction, Background, Live Demo

(Download the program)

As the Clarivate Knowledge Day sessions take place concurrently with the IGeLU Developers Day, participants are required to choose between the two, as dual registration is not permitted.