The 2012/2013 enhancements cycle was completed successful on February 12. In this cycle some changes were introduced in the enhancements procedure, we decided to bring only the top 15 enhancements from the first voting round to the final voting round, as agreed with the Aleph PWG Business meeting in Zurich. These 15 enhancements (having assigned […]
The last 3 months have been a quiet time for the Voyager PWG. Voyage 8.2 was released near the end of last year and the service pack 8.2.1 was released recently. Voyager 9 is now scheduled for Q1, 2014. Top ranked enhancements resulting from the vote a year back are currently being added to the […]
SalesForce testing and implementation Members of the IGeLU and ELUNA Steering Committees and Product Working Groups recently attended a SalesForce training session and afterwards undertook some testing for Ex Libris in a sandbox version of SalesForce, the replacement system for Pivotal. Feedback from this testing has been and will be incorporated by Ex Libris into […]
System Seminar 2014 After discussions about the pros and cons the Steering Committee accepted the suggestion of Ex Libris to hold the next system seminar in 2014 in conjunction with the IGeLU meeting. As in Haifa, the two events will start with the 3 days IGeLU meeting followed by a two days system seminar. The […]
Read More… from Report from the Steering Committee Meeting in Berlin, March 2013
All customers of Ex Libris hosting services can view the status of their services directly from the Ex Libris Customer Center IGeLU and ELUNA officers have been testing the Cloud status webpages that were launched 2013-02-14 and returned feedback to Ex Libris. Ex Libris’ reaction on our feedback was: “Most of these comments are already part […]
Read More… from Ex Libris Cloud Status website and IGeLU/ELUNA feedback
The Alma Product Working Group has assembled a spreadsheet of suggested data cleanup projects in preparation for migration to Alma from some Alma “pioneers.” We invite your contributions! Please send your additions to Diane Baden (diane.baden@bc.edu) and Megan Lee (megan.lee@monash.edu). There are three (3) tabs on the spreadsheet: the first describes the cleanup activities, the […]
Nearly 400 participants from more than 30 countries gathered in September at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (known as ETH Zürich) for the 7th IGeLU Annual meeting. Besides the sessions on company’s and product development by Ex Libris, IGeLU update and two inspiring keynotes by Paul Ayris and Sally H. McCallum, business sessions […]
Read More… from Highlights of the 7th IGeLU Conference September 2012, Zurich Switzerland
As is now traditional at the annual conference, a General Q&A (Question and Answer) session took place with Ex Libris executives at the Zurich meeting in September. Again, the company provided a first class panel to comment all the issues that had been raised via web form, mail box or from the audience: + Matti […]
Read More… from Zurich meeting: General Question & Answer session
As is now traditional at the annual conference, a General Q&A (Question and Answer) session took place with Ex Libris executives at the Zurich meeting in September. Again, the company provided a first class panel to comment all the issues that had been raised via web form, mail box or from the audience: + Matti […]
Read More… from Zurich meeting: General Question & Answer session
After the terms of Michele Newberry, Michael Fake and Lucas Koster expired in Zurich, three new members joined the Steering committee: + Naomi Greidinger from the University of Haifa, Israel + Mark Dehmlow from the University of Notre Dame, USA + Theo Engelman from Utrecht University, Netherlands (the responsibilities of the new SC members see: […]
Read More… from Changes in the Steering Commitee and the leadership of the Working Groups