Every year, prior to the conference, the IGELU Steering Committee, makes a visit to the upcoming conference host city & venue to meet with the local conference organizing committee. The Steering Committee also uses this opportunity to meet up with senior executives from ExLibris to discuss important issues related to the user community, as well […]
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The BIBSYS Conference was held in Trondheim, Norway, on the 15th and 16th of March. 393 participants from the BIBSYS Consortia participated at the Conference, which is hosted by BIBSYS each year. This year the program was colored by the implementation of Alma for the libraries in the BIBSYS Consortium. Matti Shem-Tov, CEO Ex Libris, […]
After 9 years, IGeLU elected a new Chair, during its last conference in Budapest – Theo Engelman from Utrecht university, Netherlands. Theo has been on the Steering Committee of IGeLU for 3 years and was mainly responsible for the technological infrastructure of IGeLU – administrating the website, the WebEx meetings and the archives on Google […]
IGeLU is pleased to embrace the extension of our community by many international institutions that use ProQuest Workflow Solutions products. The recent acquisition of Ex Libris by ProQuest has resulted in a move of products such as Summon, 360 solutions, Intota and SIPx to the portfolio of Ex Libris. As a consequence all customers using […]
Preparations for IGeLU 2016 in Trondheim, Norway are already in motion. The conference web site is under construction and will be available in the following months. The conference venue has been reserved for the event. More information on the venue can be found here: https://www.nordicchoicehotels.com/clarion/clarion-hotel-trondheim/ The conference website we will offer additional alternatives for accommodation. […]
The Australia New Zealand Regional Ex Libris Group (ANZREG) had its annual seminar on the 12th of February in Melbourne at the Monash University Law Chambers. The theme of the seminar was “Discovery services “ and sessions covered creation of discovery interfaces using the Primo APIs, comparison of Summons and Primo and creation of an […]
In case you missed it, this past Fall, we launched single sign on in NERS for IGeLU users. Your official IGeLU username and password will now work for logging into NERS. Currently, we are working on a handful of new features for NERS which will launch this Spring. Most of them are minor tweaks to […]
The Alma Product Working Group members continue to work behind the scenes for a better Alma. Here are a few updates from the past quarter. Alma 2015/2016 Enhancement Update Three of the six enhancements committed to development by Ex Libris from the 2015/16 cycle have been delivered. Resource Management: Ability to Search All MARC fields […]
Voyager Release Updates: Service packs – The next separate service pack will be 9.2.1, scheduled for release in Q2 2016. Voyager 10 – currently in development – release planned for Q2 2017 A reminder to the Voyager folks to check out the Developer Network. All Voyager-related content from El Commons CodeShare was moved to this […]