IGeLU 2025 – Program Overview

Last Updated: April 15, 2025

NOTE: This page will be updated in late May or early June, once the Program Planning Committee has reviewed and accepted the next round of submitted proposals. Additional sessions will be added at that time.

(1) Conference Session Titles (15-17 Sept)

Traditional Conference plenary sessions

Community sessions

  1. A new workflow in Alma Digital for the provision of Accessible Texts to users with a print disability
  2. Adapting Alma and Primo to school and public libraries
  3. Adapting Primo for Korean Users: Challenges and Customization
  4. AI for metadata extraction
  5. Build your own theses AI agent cataloger
  6. DIY – How to integrate new libraries in your network
  7. Dublin Core in Alma Digital: Overcoming Challenges and Finding Solutions
  8. Efficient Invoice Creation in Alma Without Financial System Integration
  9. Enhancing Library Integration: Streamlining Data Imports
  10. Finding data errors with Alma Analytics: A BYOD interactive Workshop [70 min. session]
  11. From Chaos to Clarity: Managing CZ Updates After Migration to Alma
  12. How low can you go? Exploring the Library Open Workflows as a low-code solution
  13. Integrating Broker-Based Resource Sharing in Italian Academic Libraries: Challenges and Solutions for Alma
  14. Integrating Dissertation Management in Alma/Primo VE: Challenges, Benefits, and Best Practices. A case study from the University of Milan
  15. Integration of Leganto in the Virtual Learning Environment: Impact on Academic Performance at Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina
  16. MELI’s Journey (2005–2025): Reflecting on Two Decades and Looking Ahead to the Future
  17. Migrating 110 colleges to Alma & Primo VE: The California Community Colleges Statewide Library Services Platform Implementation
  18. More than “Creoles and Pidgins, Other”: Reaching beyond MARC to surface Indigenous-language content for our users
  19. Navigating Complexity: Alma Implementation Across Iceland’s Diverse Library Landscape
  20. Open a Library Card in Other University Libraries: Using and Connecting Alma and Microsoft 365 to create a better, more efficient customer experience
  21. Ranking Configuration and Harvested Collections in Primo VE
  22. Resolving problem Host Bibliographic migration data using a batch process
  23. Rialto Reimagined: Navigating Library Acquisitions in Flux
  24. SBS and SBART: a small Consortium within a larger one. Adapting Alma and Primo in a multi-institutional environment
  25. Tailoring training in a consortia environment. Using Canvas for training
  26. The importance of networking: Leganto and the Italian community
  27. The Year in Search: Exploring User Search Behavior with ChatGPT
  28. Transitioning to the NDE UI: A Practical Guide
  29. XML normalization with Primo VE: Leveraging generative AI tools
  30. … TBD

Posters

  1. [Poster TBD]

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 | Ex Libris product 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. Primo Working Group Open Meeting
  13. RapidILL Working Group Open Meeting
  14. Rapido Working Group Open Meeting
  15. Rialto Working Group Open Meeting
  16. Rosetta Working Group Open Meeting and Rosetta Product Update

Sessions given by Gold Third-Party Supporters

  1. Technology from Sage: Title TBD
  2. Third Iron: Title TBD

Clarivate | Ex Libris sessions

Plenary sessions
  1. TBD
Half plenary sessions
  1. TBD
Breakout sessions
  1. TBD

In addition to all those sessions:

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

(2) Developers Day Session Titles (18 Sept)

  1. Efficient Invoice Creation in Alma Without Financial System Integration
  2. Integrating Babelio book ratings and reviews on Primo: a case study
  3. Migration of the digitized library card catalogs to Alma Digital
  4. … TBD

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

(3) Clarivate | Ex Libris Knowledge Day Session Titles (18 Sept)

  1. A Spotlight on Functionalities you can Enable to Maximize your Primo VE Experience
  2. Advanced Normalization Rules Workshop
  3. Configuring and Customizing Letters in Alma
  4. Contributing to the Alma Community Zone
  5. Leganto Analytics
  6. Linked Data in Alma and Primo VE
  7. Making the Most of Rapido
  8. Mastering the Transition to Primo NDE
  9. Overlap Analysis of Electronic Resources in Multiple Electronic Collections
  10. Primo VE Mixpanel User Engagement Analytics
  11. The new AI Metadata Assistant in the Metadata Editor
  12. Understanding the DEDUP and FRBR Processes in PrimoVE
  13. Using Normalization Rules to update Alma Records in Bulk
  14. Working with Local and Global Authorities

As the Clarivate | Ex Libris 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.

(4) Organization

Check the event outline at IGeLU 2025 Outline.