NERS Ballot:Thanks to everyone in the Leganto community who participated in our 2020 NERS enhancement cycle. This year, we ran 2 rounds of voting, with strong member participation across regions in both rounds. The 2nd and final ballot included 14 enhancements. The top 11 enhancements were accepted for development by Ex Libris and placed on […]
Leganto WG Update – February 2020
So long 2019, Hello 2020 2019 was another busy year for the IGeLU Leganto Product Working Group with many Leganto customers participating in activities. Consequently, the committee would like to thank all those who contributed to the IGeLU conference, focus groups (Analytics Dashboard and Purchase Requests) and webinars (Memorial University staff, and the recent course […]
Aleph Working Group Update
The Aleph WG leadership changed at the last IGeLU Conference in Singapore. Augusto Ribeiro, from University of Porto, Portugal, finished his mandate as IGeLU coordinator and Camelia Anghel, from New York University, USA, was nominated as IGeLU Aleph WG coordinator. Based on the Aleph roadmap presented at IGeLU conference we want to make Aleph customers […]
Alma Working Group Update
The Alma Working Group has yet another busy year. Please see the list of upcoming enhancements below. NERS Enhancements 5790 Provide an option to view URL in CZ portfolios 6348 Split role user manager in 2: the user manager and the patron manager 6201 Link resolver delivers physical holdings for wrong titles for […]
Analytics Working Group Update:
A sub-group from the Analytics Working Group is meeting monthly with Yoel Kortick and other Ex Libris staff to discuss the issues documented in the evidence documents for Alma, Primo and Leganto and other pressing issues in Analytics. After an issue addressed in the evidence documents is discussed with Ex Libris an article is added […]
Leganto WG Update – October 2019
Reflections on IGeLU 2019 – All things Leganto Leganto Product Working Group members, Angela Laurins (University of Edinburgh, UK), Paolo Buoso (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Linda Sheedy (Curtin University, Australia) and Leganto Product Working Group Coordinator, Sue Harmer (University of New South Wales, Australia) were delighted to be able to attend this year’s IGeLU […]
Linked Open Data Working Group Update:
The Linked Open Data Working Group held a business meeting at IGeLU 2019, including a presentation by Itai Veltzman on the linked data vision and roadmap for native linked data editor capabilities in Alma, which we are very excited about. The presentation should be posted on the Knowledge Center soon. Working Group co-chair Xiaoli Li […]
Primo Working Group Update:
The last six months have been busy for the IGeLU Primo/Metalib Working Group. We are very happy to have had the NERS enhancement process concluded in an orderly and timely manner this year, with a total of five top-winners accepted for development by ExLibris. (See https://igelu.org/archives/11848 for details.) Enhancement lead Bettina Kaldenberg and the rest […]
Rosetta Working Group Update:
Rosetta version 6.1 was released in July and 6.2 is expected in December. An updated version of the Format Library (6.0095 ) was in September, this corrected an earlier release so customers are advised to install the updated version. Enhancement ideas for 6.3 are being worked on at present, they are due for submission to […]
IGeLU Chair Update by Dave Allen
IGeLU 2019 Conference: I would like to thank everyone for making the IGeLU 2019 Conference a success. This was the first conference that we have held outside of Europe and Israel. Based on this success we plan on holding another IGeLU conference in Asia soon. IGeLU 2019 Conference Feedback: We are currently reviewing the feedback […]