Primo PWG News in Brief Primo Software Ballot 2015 and 2016 The final enhancement list resulting from the Primo software ballot 2015 has been published: https://igelu.org/products/primo/primo-enhancements . The IGeLU and ELUNA PWGs will not conduct a software ballot in 2016. We will wait for the first customers to go live with new UI and […]
Updates from Alma PWG
The Alma PWG continues working the Alma community and Ex Libris. Some highlights of what we’re working on lately follow. Enhancement process There are over 500 enhancements for Alma in NERS. That’s far too many for users or the PWG enhancement groups to go through each year. Many are no longer valid and some […]
Primo New UI Hackathon/Virtual Conference: Dec.12 – Dec16
The new user interface for Ex Libris’ discovery product, Primo, is a direct result of a product enhancement request by customers in 2014-2015. The initiative represents one of the most productive product collaborations to date between the ELUNA/IGeLU User groups, the user community at large and the vendor Ex Libris. In order to learn to […]
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IGeLU 2017 in St. Petersburg, Russia
We are very happy to announce that the 12th IGeLU conference in September 2017 will be hosted by The National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg, Russia. The conference website is online! http://igelu2017.nlr.ru/ St. Petersburg (formerly known as Leningrad) is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. It has a very historic center and […]
Azriel Morag Award for Innovation 2016
At this year’s IGeLU in Trondheim, two extremely worthy nominees were awarded the Azriel Morag Award for Innovation. They are – Christine Moulen of M.I.T & Mehmet Celik of KU Leuven, for their invaluable contribution to the Ex Libris user community. […]
IGELU 2016 Conference Update
Quick notes from the Chair The organizing committee together with the Trondheim local organizers and ExLibris are working intensively on preparing an interesting, stimulating and incredibly enjoyable conference. This is a great opportunity to meet […]
Open positions in IGeLU Steering Committee
Two open SC positions According with the IGeLU Statute https://igelu.org/about-us/constitution we will have to renew a part of the IGeLU Steering Committee during the next IGeLU meeting in Trondheim. We have 2 official vacant positions this Year, due to the fact that: Naomi Greidinger – University of Haifa, Israel – [2012-2014; 2014-2016] Dave Allen – State […]
IGeLU Budgets
According with the IGeLU Statute, the Assembly of Members (Tuesday, September 6th, Session 8: 13.45-15.00) will be asked to approve the annual budget of IGeLU. This is a crucial meeting for the Association, in order for the Steering Committee to be able to plan their activity, to organize the annual conferences and the Working Group […]
Proposal for Consortial Membership
Due to developments in our niche market, both on the demand and supplier side, institutions (libraries or parent organizations) collaborate more in various forms of joint operations, many times referred to as consortium but not necessarily so. Consortia or other forms of organizations that operate services for individual institutions have their own merits and to […]
Call for questions for Q&A sessions
As is traditional at the annual conference, several Q&A (Question and Answer) sessions will be taking place with Ex Libris product managers and executives at the Trondheim meeting in September. *General questions* intended for the Ex Libris Board of Management will be presented in the General Q&A plenary on Wednesday, September 7, while *product-specific questions* will […]