In February 2010 the Steering Committee visited Haifa, as part of our planning for the summer conference, to view the venue and meet with the enthusiastic local organizing committee. While we were in Israel we took the opportunity to visit the Ex Libris headquarters in Jerusalem to meet with the management team, and various other […]
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Over 400 delegates from more than 30 countries descended upon Milwaukee, town of beer, cheese and sausages on windswept Lake Michigan, in May for this year’s ELUNA annual conference. The hidden theme of a well-organised and informative conference was Transition, moving from old to new systems while managing the changeover process to reflect the changes […]
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During the Spring meeting between the IGeLU Steering Committee and Ex Libris management, IGeLU proposed that Ex Libris send some of their Alma developers to visit IGeLU member libraries, in order to experience the variety of workflows that different institutions use . The aim was to give developers a direct experience of the work their […]
We are very pleased that we now have 4 Asian IGeLU members, after a recruitment drive to include more of our Asian colleagues in our “world-wide” family. We have also made contact with the Chinese and Korean National User Groups, both of which are very active in their countries. In addition to Yonsei University Library […]
NERS, the New Enhancements Request System, has been up and running for over a year now and has supported software enhancement processes for Digitool, Primo, and Aleph, and multiple rounds of CKB enhancements voting for SFX and MetaLib. The NERS team has been collecting feedback for the system over the past year. While the system […]
The SFX Product Working Group has been busy at work this year. Our biggest achievement has been co-managing the ongoing CKB enhancement request process with ELUNA. To date, we have initiated 5 voting cycles and over 30 resources have been submitted to Ex Libris for consideration. 11, including 3 regional resource, have been implemented in […]
The Voyager 8.0 combined Collaborative Testing and Field Testing has begun and will last through early June 2011. Nine customers are participating, and have reported that the testing is going well. Of those nine libraries, three are members of IGeLU, three are members of ELUNA, and three are members of both User Groups, and the […]
Mike Ryan, Aleph PWG Coordinator, met at the ELUNA conference in early May, with the ELUNA PWG and Mark Dehmlow to continue NERS discussions. IGeLU and ELUNA will have simultaneous enhancement voting processes on NERS beginning this fall. We anticipate that we will be ready to begin accepting new Aleph enhancement requests in NERS within […]
The Primo Product Working Group met for their annual face to face meeting at the British Library in London on 24th March. The agenda focussed mainly on the enhancement voting on NERS as the first round of this completed on 21st March. Jiri Kende attended the meeting in the place of Pat Busby, the IGeLU […]
Ever wondered what happens at a ‘developer meets developer’ meeting? I have been inspired by presentations from past meetings on EL Commons and wanted to find out more. So this year I packed a few Strathclyde developments into my suitcase, put on my best techie shoes, and headed off to Chicago for the Voyager developer […]