The SFX Product Working Group met in Munich in spring 2013 to plan and discuss new projects within the PWG and changes in Ex Libris staff. With Yisrael Kuchar continuing towards new challenges within Ex Libris, we would like to thank him for his work for SFX and welcome Christine Stohn back in charge of […]
News from the Voyager Product Working Group
The last service pack for Voyage 8 was released a week or so back as 8.2.2, and work continues with the coding of Voyager 9.0 including the enhancements list submitted after last year’s NERS vote. The expected release data has slipped a few months into Q2, 2014 due, I understand to the additional work necessary […]
News from the Primo/Metalib Product Working Group
The Primo/MetaLib PWG is happy to announce that this year’s annual NERS enhancement cycle for Primo and MetaLib+ has been successfully completed. In summary, we had a total number of 154 enhancements for which 8719 votes were cast. We are now compiling the final list and will be sending this shortly to Ex Libris for […]
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The Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group getting results
The LOD SIWG is making progress with formalising the organisational structure of the new joint IGeLU/ELUNA Special Interest Working Group. A first draft of a group statute or by-laws is available for review by the IGeLU and ELUNA Steering Committees. The final version will be published as soon as possible. One of the main issues […]
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8th IGeLU Assembly of Members
One of the regular sessions in every IGeLU conference is the IGeLU Assembly of Members. The Assembly of Members has to approve the budgets of the organisation, vote for new Steering Committee members and is also used to get input from the members to improve the work of IGeLU. During the 8th IGeLU Assembly of […]
Call for nomination of candidates for vacant Steering Committee positions
According the IGeLU Statute we have to renovate the IGeLU Steering Committee during the next IGeLU conference in Berlin and we have 2 vacant positions this year, since Peter Klien – Austrian Library Network & Services Ltd, Austria – [2011–2013] Mark Dehmlow – University of Notre Dame, USA – [2012–2013] are at the end of their office. The voting […]
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News about Berlin 2013: APP now published!
The conference will take place at the Free University Berlin, Germany, from Sunday, September 8th till Tuesday, September 10th 2013 APP now available We are proud to offer all attendants an APP for mobile use. The APP is available for both Apple and Android platforms. Please visit the Conference website using your mobile device. INUG september 7th Traditionally, […]
Licensed Content in Indexing Discovery Tools
What libraries can do! Although libraries want the content they subscribe to be available for users in their preferred discovery services, some vendors unfortunately still don’t allow general discovery services to index this licensed content. To facilitate our users using rich (meta)data to discover the content we subscribe for them, IGeLU suggests always to include a clause in the content agreements with […]
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Linked Open Data and Ex Libris Products Draft Document published
After very elaborate discussions and considerations the joint IGeLU/ELUNA Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group has published Linked Open Data and Ex Libris Products: Visions, Use Cases, Requirements – An open draft on the EL Commons Wiki (only available for Ex Libris customers and staff, log in with your EL Commons account). The document […]
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Joint IGeLU/ELUNA Linked Open Data SIWG
The IGeLU Linked Open Data SIWG is expanding to become a joint IGeLU-ELUNA Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group (LOD SIWG). At the ELUNA 2013 annual conference May 1, a session on Linked Data and ELUNA organized by Laura Akerman and Daniel Lovins included presentations about the IGeLU LOD SIWG by Corey Harper, and […]