We have our own App! In the same spirit as of last year, we will be providing you with an IGeLU 2015 Conference mobile app. The mobile app will allow you to ; Add sessions to your personal plan (which can be browsed offline) Provide feedback on sessions from within the app Browse the the […]
IGeLU General Assembly According with the IGeLU Statute, the Assembly of Members (Wednesday, September 2nd, Session 4: 14.30-15.30 and September 4th, Session 16: 16.00-16.30) will be asked to approve the annual budget of IGeLU. This is a crucial meeting for the Association, in order for the Steering Committee to be able to plan their activity, […]
Move to SaaS During the meeting of the Steering Committee with Ex Libris management in Budapest in March one of the topics was the new Primo policy of Ex Libris with its strong emphasis on the SaaS environment and issues connected to the new policy from the point of view of the user community. As […]
The SFX PWG has been going on at a steady pace with all usual activities Software enhancement process Yearly cycle is continuing, with very positive results. Recent and upcoming releases contain enhancements from the Igelu procedure. These results will be presented by the SFX Product Manager, Christine Stohn, during the Budapest conference KB enhancements The […]
Software enhancements We are currently running an ongoing software enhancement process jointly with the ELUNA Primo PWG and the voting will start during the IGeLU Conference in Budapest. Primo Central Index (PCI) CKB voting A round of PCI voting was conducted at the beginning of this year. This vote was a great success and more […]
Developer Day Collaboration between the Interoperability and Linked Open Data SIWGs has continued since our last Newsletter, with more quarterly call as well as increased effort gone into planning the Developers Day post-conference after IGeLU on Saturday, September 5. Our hopes of a modest 50 attendee-meeting have been far exceeded, with over 85 registrants for […]
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First Enhancement vote The Alma PWG just completed its first ever enhancement vote. The enhancement process was led by Ann Miller, University of Oregon, US. Over 500 proposals (of more than 600) were advanced for the first round of voting. Many thanks to all of the individuals who served on the enhancement groups chaired by: […]
Join the community Please support the joint ELUNA and IGeLU Steering Committee work to advocate for inclusion of subscribed metadata and content in discovery services continues (more details about this work available on el-una.org and igelu.org). Initial work focuses on the vendors noted as high priority for our members. One such vendor is Hein Online. Hein […]
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IGeLU and ELUNA endorse ODI The ELUNA and IGeLU Steering Committees, in partnership with the Primo Product Working Groups, are working jointly, on behalf of all member libraries, to contact publishers voted as high priority for inclusion in discovery services. The communication to vendors outlines the core of our concerns: With a membership base of […]
Our chair has to step down According with the IGeLU Statute https://igelu.org/about-us/constitution we will have to renovate the IGeLU Steering Committee during the next IGeLU meeting in Budapest The first voting procedure will be for the election of a new Chair: Jiri Kende is at the end of his office and, since he served for three […]