Latin America Ex Libris User Group (GUAL) – allied with the Ex Libris International User Group (IGELU) and North American User Group (ELUNA)- and the Library of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile are organizing the First Regional Conference of GUAL. The conference will be held on March 23rd to 24th 2020, at UC Innovation […]
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The 2019 International Library Automation Perceptions Survey is currently underway. The deadline to fill this survey out is January 20th, 2020. Help others in the library community who might be in the process of evaluating library automation options by responding to the survey. Any information regarding vendor performance and product quality can be helpful when […]
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its implications on library software is a demanding topic for all European libraries. Thus the International Group of Ex Libris Users (IGeLU) came to an agreement with Ex Libris at the IGeLU Conference in Singapore. IGeLU will establish a GDPR Focus Group which will collect GDPR issues in the […]
The Aleph WG leadership changed at the last IGeLU Conference in Singapore. Augusto Ribeiro, from University of Porto, Portugal, finished his mandate as IGeLU coordinator and Camelia Anghel, from New York University, USA, was nominated as IGeLU Aleph WG coordinator. Based on the Aleph roadmap presented at IGeLU conference we want to make Aleph customers […]
The Alma Working Group has yet another busy year. Please see the list of upcoming enhancements below. NERS Enhancements 5790 Provide an option to view URL in CZ portfolios 6348 Split role user manager in 2: the user manager and the patron manager 6201 Link resolver delivers physical holdings for wrong titles for […]
A sub-group from the Analytics Working Group is meeting monthly with Yoel Kortick and other Ex Libris staff to discuss the issues documented in the evidence documents for Alma, Primo and Leganto and other pressing issues in Analytics. After an issue addressed in the evidence documents is discussed with Ex Libris an article is added […]
Reflections on IGeLU 2019 – All things Leganto Leganto Product Working Group members, Angela Laurins (University of Edinburgh, UK), Paolo Buoso (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Linda Sheedy (Curtin University, Australia) and Leganto Product Working Group Coordinator, Sue Harmer (University of New South Wales, Australia) were delighted to be able to attend this year’s IGeLU […]
The Linked Open Data Working Group held a business meeting at IGeLU 2019, including a presentation by Itai Veltzman on the linked data vision and roadmap for native linked data editor capabilities in Alma, which we are very excited about. The presentation should be posted on the Knowledge Center soon. Working Group co-chair Xiaoli Li […]
The last six months have been busy for the IGeLU Primo/Metalib Working Group. We are very happy to have had the NERS enhancement process concluded in an orderly and timely manner this year, with a total of five top-winners accepted for development by ExLibris. (See https://igelu.org/archives/11848 for details.) Enhancement lead Bettina Kaldenberg and the rest […]
Rosetta version 6.1 was released in July and 6.2 is expected in December. An updated version of the Format Library (6.0095 ) was in September, this corrected an earlier release so customers are advised to install the updated version. Enhancement ideas for 6.3 are being worked on at present, they are due for submission to […]