Call for candidates The following IGeLU Working Groups have open positions and kindly ask YOU to volunteer: The SFX Product Working Group is seeking volunteers to serve two-year terms as PWG members. The PWG operates under the auspices of the IGeLU Steering Committee and is charged with organizing the SFX enhancement process, communicating product information […]
Category: Conferences
Development agreement with Ex Libris
The agreement An important basis for our cooperation with Ex Libris is the “Product Development Collaboration Agreement Between Ex Libris, IGeLU and ELUNA” from 2008. You can find more information on the agreement on our website (members only!) Times are changing and so should the agreement Since then, the product suite of Ex Libris undertook […]
IGeLU Working Groups news
News from all IGeLU working groups IGeLU would not be able to be a viable organisation without the Working Groups. They form the core of IGeLU! Your are kindly invited to read all about their important activities in the news of Product Working Groups and Special Interest Working Groups: Primo / Metalib Product Working Group news SFX Product […]
Primo/MetaLib PWG News
Great results The Primo/MetaLib Product Working Group is happy to announce that Ex Libris accepted 15 enhancements out of the 2013 general and Opac via Primo (OvP) voting cycle. A list of the accepted enhancements can be found in the ElCommons Wiki (ElCommons Wiki/Primo/enhancement ideas) and will be developed in the relevant Primo versions are 4.8. […]
SFX PWG News
Join us The SFX Product Working Group is looking for new members. Please see the Chapter 5 (Open positions in Working Groups, call for candidates) of this newsletter for more information! KB votings The progress continues with the KB resources voting process with 19 cycles completed this far. To see the full results of all […]
Interoperability SIWG News
This was our first year! The joint IGeLU/ELUNA Interoperability SIWG was formed last year at IGeLU 2013 conference to take into account various interoperability and API issues/topics of discussion and bring them to Ex Libris’ attention. The groups remit consists of all actively developed Ex Libris products, with the focus on a few products at […]
Linked Open Data SIWG News
Collecting use cases The joint EGeLU/ELUNA Linked Open Data SIWG continues to collect use cases and present them to Ex Libris on WebEx conference calls. On February 26, 2014, Roxana Popistasu of the National Library of Luxembourg presented on linking between author data in Primo/Aleph and Autorenlexikon, an encyclopedia of Luxembourgish literary authors. On March […]
Alma PWG News
Alive and kicking The Alma Product Working Group is thrilled to be representing and working for an active community of Alma users. PWG members have facilitated a number of regional user ‘meetings’, sometimes in person and sometimes virtually. We continue to work closely with Ex Libris by nominating ‘advisors’ for different topical groups, such as […]
Azriel Morag award
Announcing the Azriel Morag award Ex Libris has announced the establishment of an annual award to honor the memory of Azriel Morag, the founder and first CEO of Ex Libris, and his immense contribution to Ex Libris and the academic library world. Morag, who died in October 2013, believed in innovation, daring, and the power of individuals to […]
Planning for Oxford 2014 has begun
Oxford here we come Planning for the next IGeLU Meeting in Oxford is on the way. An overall framework for the new conference agenda has been set up. The call for papers will be launched by the end of January and will be published via IGeLU lists and website. It will be great A wonderful […]