Here they are General (and Alma) questions intended for the Ex Libris Board of Management were presented during the Berlin IGeLU Meeting in the General Question & Answer Session on Tuesday, September 10, 2013. As every year, the procedure of finalising the minutes does afford some time: clearing and writing out the notes in full, […]
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Moving to Alma-D According to Ex Libris products roadmap, Digital resource management functionalities are being implemented in Alma. The DigiTool PWG follows with Ex Libris Product Managers the developments and tries to assure the existence of core functionalities. DigiTool continues to be supported by ExLibris and service packs are used to correct bugs. Alma-D Alma’s […]
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The Alma Product Working Group (PWG) continues to meet monthly. Most of the PWG member institutions are now live, which makes for even more rousing conversation. ALMA-L is an active list with over one thousand subscribers. Following is our PWG quarterly-ish IGeLU report. Alma Issues Alma PWG members monitored Alma-L for issues reported by five […]
The Alma Product Working Group members have been active in several areas, including program planning, web presence and documentation, and in soliciting participation from the wider Alma community. Our program chairs are diligently working to provide us with engaging programs at both ELUNA and IGeLU. We will have product updates and open product working group […]
System Seminar 2014 After discussions about the pros and cons the Steering Committee accepted the suggestion of Ex Libris to hold the next system seminar in 2014 in conjunction with the IGeLU meeting. As in Haifa, the two events will start with the 3 days IGeLU meeting followed by a two days system seminar. The […]
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The Alma Product Working Group has assembled a spreadsheet of suggested data cleanup projects in preparation for migration to Alma from some Alma “pioneers.” We invite your contributions! Please send your additions to Diane Baden (diane.baden@bc.edu) and Megan Lee (megan.lee@monash.edu). There are three (3) tabs on the spreadsheet: the first describes the cleanup activities, the […]
The Alma Product Working Group (PWG) was established in August as a joint ELUNA/IGeLU PWG, since the Alma community is still relatively small. The working body if this group has thirteen! members and can be viewed at: https://igelu.org/products/alma A web page has been established (https://igelu.org/products/alma). We are working to populate the page with content. An […]
With Alma now in live use IGeLU and our partners in ELUNA felt that this next generation system now needs an active user community and voice. A call for participation in a join IGeLU/ELUNA Alma Product Working Group went out earlier in the year, and was answered by 15 enthusiastic colleagues, mainly from institutions engaged […]
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As well as user-led sessions on Ex Libris’s established suite of products, we’re pleased to be able to announce that the IGeLU conference will involve some first-hand reports of Alma. Trevor Dawes from Princeton University and Paul Bracke from Purdue, along with other development partners, will report on their experiences of implementing Alma in their […]
Last year’s Digitool enhancement request process has been concluded and formal feedback from Ex Libris has been sent to the user community. These enhancements are expected to be distributed as part of the quarterly service packs (along with those remaining from the previous enhancements list). At the last IGeLU Conference in Haifa, Ex Libris confirmed […]