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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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The last six months have been busy for the IGeLU Primo/Metalib Working Group. We are very happy to have had the NERS enhancement process concluded in an orderly and timely manner this year, with a total of five top-winners accepted for development by ExLibris. (See https://igelu.org/archives/11848 for details.) Enhancement lead Bettina Kaldenberg and the...
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Rosetta version 6.1 was released in July and 6.2 is expected in December.  An updated version of the Format Library (6.0095 ) was in September, this corrected an earlier release so customers are advised to install the updated version. Enhancement ideas for 6.3 are being worked on at present, they are due for submission...
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IGeLU 2019 Conference: I would like to thank everyone for making the IGeLU 2019 Conference a success. This was the first conference that we have held outside of Europe and Israel. Based on this success we plan on holding another IGeLU conference in Asia soon. IGeLU 2019 Conference Feedback: We are currently reviewing the...
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