Institutions that are paid-up members with the IGeLU annual fee are recognized as Members and have the right to vote in the Elections.
According to the Statute, we need a quorum of one third of all Members to validate the decisions of the Assembly concerning projects, plan of activities, expenses, election of the Steering Committee members, etc. This is a crucial step, and it is of great importance in the life of the Association, both from a legal and operational point of view.
Voting will be using the ElectionBuddy platform.
The voting process will be as follows
- Email with a unique one-off link will be sent to the Institutional/Consortia contact as per the IGeLU membership record
- The contact person can forward this email to someone else in the institution/consortia if they do not feel that they are the best person to carry out the voting
- Once the link has been used for voting it cannot be re-used
- If the contact person is not available due to leave or if they have left the institution/consortia please contact elections{at}exlibrisusers.org with an updated email contact so that we can invalidate the original voting email and re-issue a new voting email to the updated email contact
- You cannot exceed the maximum number of votes that have been allocated to your institution/consortia. It is possible to allocate a larger number but when you submit the ballot you will get an error message
- Select ‘Abstain’ at the bottom of the ‘ballot’ if you want to decline voting in the election
- If you select ‘Abstain’ then any votes that you may have allocated on the ballot will be deleted
- Reminder emails are automatically sent out if you have not voted
- Voting is confidential and IGeLU cannot determine who has or hasn’t voted
If there are any issues with voting or the ballot please contact chair@igelu.org
2026 IGeLU Steering Committee Nominations
For this year’s Steering Committee elections we have 4 vacant positions and 4 candidates running for these 4 vacant positions.
So the valid voting options are
- Abstain –this means that you do not want to vote for any of the candidates; or
- Vote for 1 of the candidates; or
- Vote for 2 of the candidates; or
- Vote for 3 of the candidates; or
- Vote for all 4 candidates
So even though there are 4 candidates and 4 positions it is still important that you vote.