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: Primo
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. […]
News from the Primo/Metalib Product Working Group
OVP ballot The Primo/MetaLib PWG is happy to announce the OPAC via Primo (OvP) NERS enhancement cycle for Primo and MetaLib+ has been successfully completed. This ballot has been conducted in addition to the ‘normal’ voting and had the goal to list the missing features in OvP. In summary, we had a total number of […]
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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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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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Linked Open Data SIWG on the Move
Since the IGeLU 2012 conference in Zurich the Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group has been very busy behind the scenes. Now is the time to come out in the open! What have we been up to? Our main activities were a direct outcome of the Zurich meeting with Ex Libris: revising the initial […]
News from the Primo/Metalib Product Working Group
OvP Additional Functionality Ballot In response to inquiries from both the IGeLU Primo/Metalib Product Work Group and the ELUNA Primo Product Working Group (PWG) concerning necessary improvements to the OPAC via Primo (OvP) functionality in Primo, Ex Libris management recognized the need for a one-time special enhancements voting process to identify the areas of concern […]
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Report from the Steering Committee Meeting in Berlin, March 2013
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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News From The Primo/Metalib Product Working Group
OvP functionality In the Zurich conference the National User Groups complained about the lack of functionality in the Opac via Primo (OvP) setup. Because of this, libraries have to maintain their Opac or develop the needed functionality themselves. That does not comply with the claim from Ex Libris that Primo would lower the Total Cost […]
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