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 […]
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 […]
Developers Day – 2016 edition
If you liked the first edition of the Developers day held at IGeLU 2015 conference in Budapest, you will love the next edition of Developers Day, scheduled to be held at the end of IGeLU 2016 conference in Trondheim. Developers day is run by developers for developers, working together on exciting and innovative topics around but […]
Invitation to all former ProQuest Workflow Solutions customers to join IGeLU
A free membership for 2016 The IGeLU Steering Committee decided to grant all former ProQuest Workflow Solutions (PQWS) customers a complimentary membership for 2016. The reason was to allow them as a group to get to know the community they suddenly became part of. The existence of a well-organized and influential User Group as IGeLU […]
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IGeLU officers at ELUNA 2016
Quite a delegation! This year IGeLU was represented by five people at the ELUNA 2016 conference, May 3-6 in Oklahoma City. Theo Engelman (Chair), Mark Dehmlow (SC) Christian Hänger (Primo), John Krug (Analytics), Betsy Friesen (Alma), Rich Wenger (SFX) ,Cindy Greenspun (Voyager), Corey Harper (Linked Open Data) and Mehmet Celik (Interoperability) attended to the conference. […]
NERS and Ideas Exchange (IE)
WHAT NERS DOES FOR YOU IGeLU, ELUNA and Ex Libris have a Product Development Collaboration Agreement, where Ex Libris has a commitment to develop the top voted enhancement requests from customers. The NERS system and underlying Product Development Collaboration Agreement give ELUNA and IGeLU members the benefit to prioritize customer enhancement requests using the voting […]
A Walk down Memory lane
IGeLU 2015 at Budapest marked the last year of Jirka Kende’s term as IGeLU Chair. In appreciation of all his various efforts in building a strong user community, the following song was played during the farewell , beautifully organized by the various members of the IGeLU community. Below is a reproduction of that song as […]
New Kids on the IGeLU Block
The new business unit – ExLibris, A ProQuest Company, formed due to the acquisition of ExLibris by ProQuest, resulted in an expanded portfolio of library solutions that now includes Intota, the Summon service, 360 Link® and SIPX®, in addition to Alma, Aleph®, the bX™ recommender, Primo®, Rosetta, SFX®, Voyager®, and the newly launched Leganto reading-list […]
Interoperability SIWG Revised Key Goals
When the Interoperability SIWG started their work in 2013, a number of key goals and focus issues were formulated. Since then a number of these goals have been reached or have become obsolete. The time was right for a revision of the initial list. The result is a new consolidated list of five comprehensive goals […]