Dear Readers, D-day to the 12th IGeLU Annual Conference @ St.Petersburg is getting closer….. In IGeLU tradition, every year, a Pre-conference News-in-Brief (NiB) is published in the last few weeks leading up to the Annual conference and this year is no different. This NiB provides a sneak peak of the various activities for IGeLU...
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The organizing committee together with the St. Petersburg local organizers and ExLibris are working intensively on preparing an interesting, stimulating and incredibly enjoyable conference. This is a great opportunity to meet with peers from all over the world and learn from other’s experience. The conference will include product updates for all products, as well...
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New Conference App, multi event! We are happy to announce you that IGeLU has contracted a brand new conference App. The IGeLU Events App can be used for multiple events and offers rich functionality upon an intuitive user experience. We recommend using our App, it will give you an easy overview on the conference...
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Dear colleagues, As is traditional at the annual conference, several Q&A (Question and Answer) sessions will be taking place with ExLibris product managers and executives at the St. Petersburg conference in September 2017. *General questions* intended for the ExLibris Board of Management will be presented in the General Q&A plenary on Wednesday, September 13th,...
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The IGeLU Steering Committee has decided to offer all new customers of Ex Libris a first year’s membership free of charge. We expect and hope to enlarge our representation among the Ex Libris customer base. Offering new membership for free the first year gives new customers the opportunity to engage with the community and...
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This week continues the customer profile series with an implementation from the University of Oklahoma Libraries. This profile was created in conjunction with Carl Grant, Associate Dean/Chief Technology Officer of the University of Oklahoma Libraries. Q: When are you planning to implement? A: As one of the original development partners, we are fully...
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The process for the 2016 enhancement voting is finished. Ex Libris will provide the function ‘Provide email, print and push options for list of loans/requests in My Account’ (Ners Id 3441) which will be delivered for the current and the new UI. As this is an huge development work this will cost the community...
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The Rosetta Advisory Group meeting was held in Sheffield, UK between the 12th and 14th of June. The meeting was attended by existing and potential Rosetta members as well and Ex Libris senior management. The Rosetta Advisory Group meeting was held in conjunction with the Rosetta User Group. Discussions were undertaken within the RUG...
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The Knowledge Base Advisory Board (KBAB), a joint ELUNA/IGeLU group, is now the Content Working Group (CWG). The name change reflects the scope of the content areas we work with – the link resolver knowledge bases and the discovery indexes. It also aligns with Ex Libris’s move to consolidate Content operations. What the Content...
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Linked Open Data, along with Interoperability, Analytics, and Content (formerly KBAB) Special Interest Working Groups are planning a combined blockbuster “business meeting” at IGeLU 2017. This will include roadmap updates for Linked Open Data Development (Asaf Kline) and Interoperability/APIs (Josh Weisman). We will be providing more information about your linked data needs and activities...
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