Meeting Ex Libris in Budapest End of March 2015 the IGeLU Steering Committee came to Budapest, the location of our coming conference, not only to meet the highly motivated local organizing team but – as usual in-between the conferences – also the top management of Ex Libris, Matti Shem-Tov (CEO) and Yair Amsterdam (COO) to […]
News from the Primo / Metalib PWG
Primo Central Index Central Knowledge Base (PCI CKB) voting The IGeLU Primo PWG conducted – in collaboration with ELUNA – a Primo Central Index Central Knowledge Base (PCI CKB) ballot which was the first PCI voting at all. The ballot was a great success and 138 resources were added to NERS and sent to Ex Libris. […]
News from the Aleph PWG
IGeLU Aleph voting cycle 2014 The 2014 Aleph Enhancements voting cycle was finished in January, 2015. In this voting cycle we promote the following 5 enhancements to be included in the next Aleph versions. Automatic reset of lost/forgotten account passwords within Aleph/Primo: [NERS #3416] When using F3 or Ctrl+F3 the subfield order in the Cat editor should match the retrieved […]
News from the SFX PWG
2014 Software enhancement voting results The 2014 SFX software enhancement cycle was completed early December and the results of the voting have been sent to Ex Libris for evaluation. According SFX Product Manager, Ex Libris is currently planning to do the first five enhancements: KB Manager: Ability to add author information to e-books records in […]
News from the Alma PWG
Our Alma community continues to grow and the Alma Product Working Group (PWG) continues to work on your behalf. The PWG has been very busy since our last report in December. Licensing You may recall that recommendations from the Licensing Task Force were forwarded to Ex Libris last fall. Some of those recommendations have already […]
News from the LOD SIWG
Interoperable Collaborations The LOD and Interoperability SIWGs have begun to discuss ways to work together more closely. It is neither possible nor desirable to separate concerns about API-Level interoperability and RESTful interfaces from concerns about Data-Level Interoperability and Linked Open Data. To this end, our SIWG Working Body’s have begun quarterly joint calls and are […]
News from the Voyager PWG
IGeLU and ELUNA The Voyager PWG’s of both ELUNA and IGeLU have been merged, since the customers of Voyager are almost totally US based and the few remaining Australian and European customers are implementing new products like Alma or considering to leave Voyager for other products. The Finish National Library Network Services is still offering […]
News from the Interoperability SIWG
Collaborative working with Linked Open Data SIWG The Interoperability and LOD SIWGs have had their first joint discussion call to discuss how the two groups can work closely. More and more of the use cases covered in the LOD SIWG also refer to API level interoperability in addition to the data level interoperability, and the […]
News from NERS
NERS Updates Currently work is under way to integrate NERS with the IGeLU ldap system to simplify logging into NERS. Once completed, this will allow IGeLU users to log in to NERS using the same set of credentials they use for the website and administrative system. We were recently notified of a bug in the […]
Registration for the 2015 IGeLU Conference in Budapest is now open!
We invite you to join users of Ex Libris solutions from all over the world at the 2015 IGeLU Conference in Budapest, hosted by a coalition of Budapest libraries at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The conference takes place from 2-4 September. Registration for the event is now open and you are welcome “>to […]
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