The Australia New Zealand Regional Ex Libris Group (ANZREG) had its annual seminar on the 12th of February in Melbourne at the Monash University Law Chambers. The theme of the seminar was “Discovery services “ and sessions covered creation of discovery interfaces using the Primo APIs, comparison of Summons and Primo and creation of an […]
In case you missed it, this past Fall, we launched single sign on in NERS for IGeLU users. Your official IGeLU username and password will now work for logging into NERS. Currently, we are working on a handful of new features for NERS which will launch this Spring. Most of them are minor tweaks to […]
The Alma Product Working Group members continue to work behind the scenes for a better Alma. Here are a few updates from the past quarter. Alma 2015/2016 Enhancement Update Three of the six enhancements committed to development by Ex Libris from the 2015/16 cycle have been delivered. Resource Management: Ability to Search All MARC fields […]
Voyager Release Updates: Service packs – The next separate service pack will be 9.2.1, scheduled for release in Q2 2016. Voyager 10 – currently in development – release planned for Q2 2017 A reminder to the Voyager folks to check out the Developer Network. All Voyager-related content from El Commons CodeShare was moved to this […]
Primo User Interface Primo PWG is discussing jointly with the ELUNA Primo PWG and selected beta-testers the features and functions of the new User Interface which Ex Libris will roll out in 2016. Software enhancements The 2nd round of voting related to the 2015 enhancements started at the beginning of March. Ex Libris has allocated […]
The PWG has two new members: David Boyd from the University of Bristol in the UK, and Jiri Pavlik from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. The full list of the members can be found at https://igelu.org/products/sfx. The change of SFX’s database from MySQL to MariaDB is nearing a successful completion. All hosted sites have […]
Progress is being made on the establishment of the Analytics Group. An invitation to participate was sent to the mailing lists on 4th February. Twenty three expressions of interest have been made so far. As the working body will consist of 12 members ,I am in the process of making the selections. To help with […]
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Founded in 2013 as a result of discussions at the 2012 Zurich conference, the goal of the SFX KnowledgeBase Advisory Board (KBAB) was to promote first class quality of the data stored in the SFX Knowledge Base by reviewing the quality assurance policies and processes together with Ex Libris. The SFX KBAB has been active […]
The Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group has been working a fair amount behind the scenes since IGeLU 2015 in Budapest. Throughout the past year, much of our work been in collaboration with the Interoperability SIWG and the nascent Analytics SIWG. Our 3 groups organized the first in a series of “Show and Tell” […]
Such a great event! It is hard to believe but the wonderful conference in Budapest is over! Many colleagues from the Working groups and the Steering committee and especially our colleagues from the host institutions in Budapest were working hard for months to make the conference as successful as it was – with 430 attendees […]
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