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 […]
Combined Hosted/Cloud Services discussion/mailing list for IGeLU and ELUNA
We advise all customers, willing to share their experiences and needs about Hosted and Cloud Services, to join the combined IGeLU/ELUNA discussion and mailing list on this topic. To join, simply go to the ELUNA webpages for mailing lists, read the information and go to the listserver link. Your request to join will be moderated […]
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8th IGeLU CONFERENCE IN BERLIN ON TRACK
The preparations for the next IGeLU conference are well on the way. During its meeting in Berlin in March the Steering Committee visited the conference venue at the Free University Berlin and was impressed by the newly renovated Henry Ford Building, the centre of the university with its auditorium maximum with capacity of well over […]
Linked Open Data SIWG on the Move
Since the IGeLU 2012 conference in Zurich the Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group has been very busy behind the scenes. Now is the time to come out in the open! What have we been up to? Our main activities were a direct outcome of the Zurich meeting with Ex Libris: revising the initial […]
News from Ners
This Spring we have been working on enhancing both the technology that supports the NERS system as well as the teams that provide support for the system. Active collaborative development on the system is under way and as our programmers become more familiar with the code structure, we should be ready soon to take user […]