News from the Voyager Product Working Group

The last service pack for Voyage 8 was released a week or so back as 8.2.2, and work continues with the coding of Voyager 9.0 including the enhancements list submitted after last year’s NERS vote. The expected release data has slipped a few months into Q2, 2014 due, I understand to the additional work necessary […]

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News from the Primo/Metalib Product Working Group

The Primo/MetaLib PWG is happy to announce that this year’s annual NERS enhancement cycle for Primo and MetaLib+ has been successfully completed. In summary, we had a total number of 154 enhancements for which 8719 votes were cast. We are now compiling the final list and will be sending this shortly to Ex Libris for […]

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The Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group getting results

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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8th IGeLU Assembly of Members

One of the regular sessions in every IGeLU conference is the IGeLU Assembly of Members. The Assembly of Members has to approve the budgets of the organisation, vote for new Steering Committee members and is also used to get input from the members to improve the work of IGeLU. During the 8th IGeLU Assembly of […]

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Call for nomination of candidates for vacant Steering Committee positions

According the IGeLU Statute we have to renovate the IGeLU Steering Committee during the next IGeLU conference in Berlin and we have 2 vacant positions this year, since Peter Klien – Austrian Library Network & Services Ltd, Austria – [2011–2013] Mark Dehmlow – University of Notre Dame, USA – [2012–2013] are at the end of their office. The voting […]

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News about Berlin 2013: APP now published!

The conference will take place at the Free University Berlin, Germany, from Sunday, September 8th till Tuesday, September 10th 2013 APP now available We are proud to offer all attendants an APP for mobile use. The APP is available for both Apple and Android platforms. Please visit the Conference website using your mobile device. INUG september 7th Traditionally, […]

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Licensed Content in Indexing Discovery Tools

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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8th IGeLU CONFERENCE IN BERLIN ON TRACK

The preparations for the next IGeLU conference are well on the way. During its meeting in Berlin in March the Steering Committee visited the conference venue at the Free University Berlin and was impressed by the newly renovated Henry Ford Building, the centre of the university with its auditorium maximum with capacity of well over […]

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News from Ners

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 […]

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