2013 enhancement cycle The Aleph PWG leaders met recently with our ELUNA counterparts and Carmit Marcus, Aleph Product Manager, to begin discussions regarding the 2013 enhancement cycle. In an attempt to avoid some of the confusion that members experienced last year, we have decided that IGeLU and ELUNA – while continuing to jointly use NERS […]
Primo & MetaLib PWG Update
Primo enhancements Two rounds of voting on the Primo enhancements were held in April and May, and were managed jointly by the IGeLU and ELUNA PWGs. Members of both groups again put in a lot of work to clarify and de-dup the list of enhancements before the voting began. Following the first round of voting […]
Primo & MetaLib PWG Update
Primo enhancements Two rounds of voting on the Primo enhancements were held in April and May, and were managed jointly by the IGeLU and ELUNA PWGs. Members of both groups again put in a lot of work to clarify and de-dup the list of enhancements before the voting began. Following the first round of voting […]
Voyager PWG Update
Voyager 8.1.2 was released in July, and Voyager 8.2 is on schedule for release in Q4 2012, with field testing starting in August. Ex Libris has begun development work for Voyager 9, which is scheduled for release in late 2013. Enhancements The Enhancement Review process for Voyager 9’s core modules is complete, and the 20 […]
Ex Libris cloud service packages
During the INUG meeting in Haifa last year it became evident that there is no clear picture within the user community of the various cloud services Ex Libris is offering. We have asked Ex Libris to make these services more transparent, and as a result the company have added a comparison matrix to the Documentation […]
Zurich final programme available
The IGeLU Conference Program Planning Committee is pleased to announce that the “almost final” programme for our upcoming conference in Zurich is now posted on the conference website. We have to finish working out the details for some sessions but, for the most part, what you see is what you will get. So, if you’ve […]
Zurich 2012: registration is open
Registration for Zurich 2012 is open – you can register via the conference website. The conference is from 11th – 13th September. In a number of surveys Zurich has been named the city with the best quality of life in the world, and it’s a bright, beautiful, and vibrant place – so we look forward […]
Alma first hand in Zurich
As well as user-led sessions on Ex Libris’s established suite of products, we’re pleased to be able to announce that the IGeLU conference will involve some first-hand reports of Alma. Trevor Dawes from Princeton University and Paul Bracke from Purdue, along with other development partners, will report on their experiences of implementing Alma in their […]
Steering Committee elections
Four positions on the IGeLU Steering Committee will be open for candidacy at the Zurich conference in September. The current terms of Steering Committee members Lukas Koster, Michele Newberry, Fiona Burton, as well as that of the Chair Jirka Kende will expire. IGeLU is a volunteer organisation, and we rely on active participation from our members, […]
Primo 4 Early Adopter program and Quality Assurance
The Steering Committee and Ex Libris have been working together to try to improve the Quality Assurance process for new product releases. As a result of those joint efforts, a few IGeLU member institutions are participating in a Primo 4 Early Adopter program. After using the new V4 Upgrade Kit they share their upgrade experiences […]
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