Dear colleagues, As is traditional at the annual conference, several Q&A (Question and Answer) sessions will be taking place with ExLibris product managers and executives at the St. Petersburg conference in September 2017. *General questions* intended for the ExLibris Board of Management will be presented in the General Q&A plenary on Wednesday, September 13th, while […]
Free membership for all new customers
The IGeLU Steering Committee has decided to offer all new customers of Ex Libris a first year’s membership free of charge. We expect and hope to enlarge our representation among the Ex Libris customer base. Offering new membership for free the first year gives new customers the opportunity to engage with the community and experience […]
Stories of Legato Implementations – University of Oklahoma Libraries
This week continues the customer profile series with an implementation from the University of Oklahoma Libraries. This profile was created in conjunction with Carl Grant, Associate Dean/Chief Technology Officer of the University of Oklahoma Libraries. Q: When are you planning to implement? A: As one of the original development partners, we are fully implemented, […]
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Updates from Primo PWG
The process for the 2016 enhancement voting is finished. Ex Libris will provide the function ‘Provide email, print and push options for list of loans/requests in My Account’ (Ners Id 3441) which will be delivered for the current and the new UI. As this is an huge development work this will cost the community 100 […]
Rosetta Advisory Group
The Rosetta Advisory Group meeting was held in Sheffield, UK between the 12th and 14th of June. The meeting was attended by existing and potential Rosetta members as well and Ex Libris senior management. The Rosetta Advisory Group meeting was held in conjunction with the Rosetta User Group. Discussions were undertaken within the RUG to […]
KBAB is now the Content Working Group (CWG)
The Knowledge Base Advisory Board (KBAB), a joint ELUNA/IGeLU group, is now the Content Working Group (CWG). The name change reflects the scope of the content areas we work with – the link resolver knowledge bases and the discovery indexes. It also aligns with Ex Libris’s move to consolidate Content operations. What the Content Working […]
Updates from LOD SIWG
Linked Open Data, along with Interoperability, Analytics, and Content (formerly KBAB) Special Interest Working Groups are planning a combined blockbuster “business meeting” at IGeLU 2017. This will include roadmap updates for Linked Open Data Development (Asaf Kline) and Interoperability/APIs (Josh Weisman). We will be providing more information about your linked data needs and activities based […]
Leganto Customer Profile – Tufts University
The following profile resulted from a conversation with Charlotte Keys, Director of Library Technology Services, Tisch Library,Tufts University. Q: When are you planning to implement? A: Tufts is in the process of implementing this Summer after we have completed our Alma/Primo implementation. Q: What is the major benefit you hope to see as a result […]
Leganto Customer Profile – Washington State University
This profile was developed in a conversation with Alex Merrill, the Access Services and Systems/Operations Manager at Washington State University, located in Pullman Washington. Q: When are you planning to implement? A: We went live with a pilot this past January. We are planning on switching all campuses over to Leganto by Fall 2017. Q: […]
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Steering Committee elections
Four open SC positions According with the IGeLU Statute we will have to renew a part of the IGeLU Steering Committee during the next IGeLU meeting in St. Petersburg. We have 4 official vacant positions this Year, due to the fact that: The General Assembly last year in Trondheim decided to expand the SC to […]