The LOD SIWG is making progress with formalising the organisational structure of the new joint IGeLU/ELUNA Special Interest Working Group. A first draft of a group statute or by-laws is available for review by the IGeLU and ELUNA Steering Committees. The final version will be published as soon as possible. One of the main issues […]
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What libraries can do! Although libraries want the content they subscribe to be available for users in their preferred discovery services, some vendors unfortunately still don’t allow general discovery services to index this licensed content. To facilitate our users using rich (meta)data to discover the content we subscribe for them, IGeLU suggests always to include a clause in the content agreements with […]
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We advise all customers, willing to share their experiences and needs about Hosted and Cloud Services, to join the combined IGeLU/ELUNA discussion and mailing list on this topic. To join, simply go to the ELUNA webpages for mailing lists, read the information and go to the listserver link. Your request to join will be moderated […]
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This Spring we have been working on enhancing both the technology that supports the NERS system as well as the teams that provide support for the system. Active collaborative development on the system is under way and as our programmers become more familiar with the code structure, we should be ready soon to take user […]
SalesForce testing and implementation Members of the IGeLU and ELUNA Steering Committees and Product Working Groups recently attended a SalesForce training session and afterwards undertook some testing for Ex Libris in a sandbox version of SalesForce, the replacement system for Pivotal. Feedback from this testing has been and will be incorporated by Ex Libris into […]
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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At the IGeLU Conference, Ex Libris announced they would be replacing the Pivotal system with a new system, SalesforceCRM, in 2013 with an anticipated implementation date of mid-2013. As part of the implementation project, Ex Libris asked the IGeLU and ELUNA User Groups to provide lists of features which we want to see in the […]
As many of us are thinking of moving our systems to the cloud we asked Ex Libris to make their data security policy in the cloud environment more transparent. On the documentation portal (section Cross-Product/Security/Security Updates) you will find now the document “Ex Libris Cloud Security and Privacy Statement” describing Ex Libris’s security policy. If […]
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