Developer Day Collaboration between the Interoperability and Linked Open Data SIWGs has continued since our last Newsletter, with more quarterly call as well as increased effort gone into planning the Developers Day post-conference after IGeLU on Saturday, September 5. Our hopes of a modest 50 attendee-meeting have been far exceeded, with over 85 registrants for […]
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First Enhancement vote The Alma PWG just completed its first ever enhancement vote. The enhancement process was led by Ann Miller, University of Oregon, US. Over 500 proposals (of more than 600) were advanced for the first round of voting. Many thanks to all of the individuals who served on the enhancement groups chaired by: […]
Join the community Please support the joint ELUNA and IGeLU Steering Committee work to advocate for inclusion of subscribed metadata and content in discovery services continues (more details about this work available on el-una.org and igelu.org). Initial work focuses on the vendors noted as high priority for our members. One such vendor is Hein Online. Hein […]
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IGeLU and ELUNA endorse ODI The ELUNA and IGeLU Steering Committees, in partnership with the Primo Product Working Groups, are working jointly, on behalf of all member libraries, to contact publishers voted as high priority for inclusion in discovery services. The communication to vendors outlines the core of our concerns: With a membership base of […]
Our chair has to step down According with the IGeLU Statute https://igelu.org/about-us/constitution we will have to renovate the IGeLU Steering Committee during the next IGeLU meeting in Budapest The first voting procedure will be for the election of a new Chair: Jiri Kende is at the end of his office and, since he served for three […]
We are very happy to announce that thanks to all the active and creative members of our community we can offer you a very interesting and diverse programme which is now published. The conference website is online since March 23 at http://igelu2015.comp-rend.hu and registration is open since April 9. The conference will be followed by a Post-Conference Developer […]
HUNG(A)RY FOR MEETING – THIS YEAR IN BUDAPEST Preparation for this year’s IGeLU Meeting in Budapest are well under way. The call for papers has gone out long ago, so we already have received a good amount of proposals. As there is still room for more, please be quick, if you plan to become part […]
FIRST TIMERS MEETING For some participants, the upcoming IGeLU Meeting in Budapest will be the first IGeLU Meeting ever. So why not invite them to a first timers meeting where they will be able to learn everything they always wanted to know about the User Group and the event? Where they will get to know other newcomers and find […]
Developers Day For the first time this year, IGeLU will also host a Developers Day on Saturday, the 5th of September, for an in depth look at technical topics. Developers day is an initiative for developers working with Ex Libris products, from developers working with Ex Libris products. This is the first time such an […]
Meeting Ex Libris in Budapest End of March 2015 the IGeLU Steering Committee came to Budapest, the location of our coming conference, not only to meet the highly motivated local organizing team but – as usual in-between the conferences – also the top management of Ex Libris, Matti Shem-Tov (CEO) and Yair Amsterdam (COO) to […]