Mobile App redesigned In the same spirit as of last year, we will be providing you with an IGeLU 2014 Conference and Systems Seminar mobile app. The mobile app will allow you to ; view session information, enriched with abstracts add sessions to your personal plan (which can be browsed offline) provide feedback on sessions from within […]
It’s all in the open! According with the IGeLU Statute, the Assembly of Members (Monday, September 15th, Session 6: 16.50-17.30) 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, to organize the annual […]
Who is who and for how long? According with the IGeLU Statute we have to renew the IGeLU Steering Committee during the next IGeLU meeting in Oxford and we have vacant positions this year, since 3 members are at the end of their office; Naomi Greidinger – University of Haifa, Israel – [2012-2014] Theo Engelman – Utrecht University, […]
Call for candidates The following IGeLU Working Groups have open positions and kindly ask YOU to volunteer: The SFX Product Working Group is seeking volunteers to serve two-year terms as PWG members. The PWG operates under the auspices of the IGeLU Steering Committee and is charged with organizing the SFX enhancement process, communicating product information […]
The agreement An important basis for our cooperation with Ex Libris is the “Product Development Collaboration Agreement Between Ex Libris, IGeLU and ELUNA” from 2008. You can find more information on the agreement on our website (members only!) Times are changing and so should the agreement Since then, the product suite of Ex Libris undertook […]
News from all IGeLU working groups IGeLU would not be able to be a viable organisation without the Working Groups. They form the core of IGeLU! Your are kindly invited to read all about their important activities in the news of Product Working Groups and Special Interest Working Groups: Primo / Metalib Product Working Group news SFX Product […]
Great results The Primo/MetaLib Product Working Group is happy to announce that Ex Libris accepted 15 enhancements out of the 2013 general and Opac via Primo (OvP) voting cycle. A list of the accepted enhancements can be found in the ElCommons Wiki (ElCommons Wiki/Primo/enhancement ideas) and will be developed in the relevant Primo versions are 4.8. […]
Join us The SFX Product Working Group is looking for new members. Please see the Chapter 5 (Open positions in Working Groups, call for candidates) of this newsletter for more information! KB votings The progress continues with the KB resources voting process with 19 cycles completed this far. To see the full results of all […]
This was our first year! The joint IGeLU/ELUNA Interoperability SIWG was formed last year at IGeLU 2013 conference to take into account various interoperability and API issues/topics of discussion and bring them to Ex Libris’ attention. The groups remit consists of all actively developed Ex Libris products, with the focus on a few products at […]
Collecting use cases The joint EGeLU/ELUNA Linked Open Data SIWG continues to collect use cases and present them to Ex Libris on WebEx conference calls. On February 26, 2014, Roxana Popistasu of the National Library of Luxembourg presented on linking between author data in Primo/Aleph and Autorenlexikon, an encyclopedia of Luxembourgish literary authors. On March […]