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The IGeLU Steering Committee (SC) has made some tough decisions around the IGeLU 2020 conference and we have decided that under the current pandemic situation we need to cancel the IGeLU Wales 2020 Conference. We feel that under the current situation that this is the prudent option to ensure the safety of our members,...
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Dear Reader, It is a pleasure to welcome you to our first News-in-Brief newsletter for 2020. The News-in-Brief is a collection of articles contributed by various members of the community and this current edition is chock full of information. The origin and intentionality behind its name, News-in-Brief, is simple and grounded in sharing news,...
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Latin America Ex Libris User Group (GUAL) – allied with the Ex Libris International User Group (IGELU) and North American User Group (ELUNA)- and the Library of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile are organizing the First Regional Conference of GUAL. The conference will be held on March 23rd to 24th 2020, at UC...
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The 2019 International Library Automation Perceptions Survey is currently underway. The deadline to fill this survey out is January 20th, 2020. Help others in the library community who might be in the process of evaluating library automation options by responding to the survey. Any information regarding vendor performance and product quality can be helpful...
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its implications on library software is a demanding topic for all European libraries. Thus the International Group of Ex Libris Users (IGeLU) came to an agreement with Ex Libris at the IGeLU Conference in Singapore. IGeLU will establish a GDPR Focus Group which will collect GDPR issues in...
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The Aleph WG leadership changed at the last IGeLU Conference in Singapore. Augusto Ribeiro, from University of Porto, Portugal, finished his mandate as IGeLU coordinator and Camelia Anghel, from New York University, USA, was nominated as IGeLU Aleph WG coordinator. Based on the Aleph roadmap presented at IGeLU conference we want to make Aleph...
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The Alma Working Group has yet another busy year. Please see the list of upcoming enhancements below. NERS Enhancements 5790   Provide an option to view URL in CZ portfolios 6348   Split role user manager in 2: the user manager and the patron manager      6201   Link resolver delivers physical holdings for wrong titles...
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A sub-group from the Analytics Working Group is meeting monthly with Yoel Kortick and other Ex Libris staff to discuss the issues documented in the evidence documents for Alma, Primo and Leganto and other pressing issues in Analytics. After an issue addressed in the evidence documents is discussed with Ex Libris an article is...
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Reflections on IGeLU 2019 – All things Leganto Leganto Product Working Group members, Angela Laurins (University of Edinburgh, UK), Paolo Buoso (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Linda Sheedy (Curtin University, Australia) and Leganto Product Working Group Coordinator, Sue Harmer (University of New South Wales, Australia) were delighted to be able to attend this year’s...
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The Linked Open Data Working Group held a business meeting at IGeLU 2019, including a presentation by Itai Veltzman on the linked data vision and roadmap for native linked data editor capabilities in Alma, which we are very excited about.  The presentation should be posted on the Knowledge Center soon. Working Group co-chair Xiaoli...
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