Oxford was a success What a great meeting in the wonderful atmosphere of Oxford! Well over 400 participants from more than 30 countries gathered in the beautiful Examinations Schools of the Oxford university to learn in more than 70 plenary and parallel sessions about new developments from the user community and from Ex Libris and […]
And the score was….. 13-4 !!
Wasn’t Engeland the origin of football? Oxford 2014 has been a great experience for all of us. We have received lots of interesting presentations during the IGeLU Meeting and System Seminar, which are now ready for download from either the IGeLU website or the Ex Libris documentation center. Many pictures from memorable social events can be […]
10th IGeLU conference in Budapest
We are very happy to announce The Library and Information Centre (MTAK) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, together with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the University Library of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and the Library of the Parliament will be hosting the 10th IGeLU conference in 2015 September Preceded by the usual Pre-Conference meetings on […]
10th IGeLU conference in Budapest
We are very happy to announce The Library and Information Centre (MTAK) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, together with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the University Library of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and the Library of the Parliament will be hosting the 10th IGeLU conference in 2015 September Preceded by the usual Pre-Conference meetings on […]
In Memoriam Noam Kaminer
On November 30th we received the sad news that Noam Kaminer has passed away. Although some of us knew Noam suffered from a very serious illnes the news came as a shock to us. Many of us have worked in the past years with Noam and we all have good and pleasant memories on him. […]
News from the SFX PWG
So long and thank you Mathias The SFX Product Working Group met in Oxford during the IGeLU 2014 conference to discuss changes in our PWG and goals for the year 2015. We are very sorry to announce that our long-term member Mathias Kratzer has left the PWG after the IGeLU 2014 conference. We would like to […]
News from the LOD SIWG
New members on the Working Body Following an engaging IGeLU 2014, the Linked Open Data LOSSpecial Interest Working Group filled two vacancies on our Working Body, and are looking forward to collaborating with the two newest members of the group: * Dr. Arif Shaon, Lead Technical Officer, Library Repository Services, University of New South Wales […]
News from the ALMA PWG
It’s growing Our Alma community continues to expand. We have over 1400 list members on ALMA-L. Thanks to all of you for your questions and, most especially, for help provided to other users. Here are a few things that the Alma Product Working Group (PWG) has worked on over the past quarter on behalf of […]
News from the Voyager PWG
Combined with ELUNA As more and more libraries move to Alma and other Library Systems, the IGeLU Product Working Group has had people leaving and was unable to attract new members. Therefore, after the Oxford meeting the only member remaining is Nicholas Volk from the National Library of Finland. He is still on a learning curve […]
Azriel Morag Award 2014 granted
Winners of the Azriel Morag Award for Innovation 2014 One of the highlights at the IGeLU 2014 conference in Oxford was the announcement by Daniela Morag of this years winners of the Azriel Morag Award for Innovation. Please see the full news and details on the Ex Libris website […]