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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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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The IGeLU Steering Committee meets in person once a year between conferences, and so in March the Committee met in Switzerland, to discuss outstanding issues and to meet with the local organisers of the Zurich conference. The meeting was generously hosted by our colleagues from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in the […]
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The recently formed IGeLU Linked Open Data SIWG recently published its ‘Manifesto for Linked Open Data in Ex Libris Products’ in which it describes its objectives and strategy. However one of the key goals – “establish working relationships with Ex Libris strategic and product management” – has already been achieved. Ex Libris has now appointed […]
The 2012 enhancement voting cycle was completed successfully on March 21st, and as a result six enhancements were forwarded to Ex Libris for development. We anticipate the most, if not all, of these enhancements will be included in a December 2012 service pack. The final enhancement descriptions are posted elsewhere on the website. This was […]