This agreement formalizes principles of collaboration between Ex Libris, a ProQuest Company, the International Group of Ex Libris Users (lGeLU), and Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA) on development and enhancement of Ex Libris products. This agreement was first put in place in 2008 and has gone through multiple revisions over the years.
The agreement is unique in our industry and ensures that our requirements are met by Ex Libris.
2024 September – Addendum Updates effective from 2024
Increase in development points for Rapido/RapidILL to 60 points – https://igelu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/RapidILL-Rapido-Change-in-Points-08-09-2024.pdf
2023 March – Addendum Updates effective from 2024
The Addendum Updates superseeds the prevous 2021 agreement for the identified products.
The updates impacted the following products
- Aleph – 45 development points (reduction from 75 points)
- Alma – 225 development points (increase of 25 points)
- Alma-Digital – 50 development points (new)
- CDI – 100 development points (new) – to be used for software related enhancement requests
- Esploro – 50 development points (new)
- Leganto – 75 development points (increase of 25 points)
- Primo – 150 development points (reduction of 50 points which have been reallocated to CDI)
- RapidILL / Rapido – 50 development points (new) – to be shared between the two products
- Rialto – 50 development points (new)
- Summon – 150 development points (reduction of 50 points which have been reallocated to CDI)
In the 2021 agreement 50 additional development points were allocated to Primo and Summon for the purpose of handling CDI software enhancements. These points have been taken back from Primo and Summon for the exclusive use of CDI software enhancement process.
2021 – Revised Product Development Collaboration Agreement Between Ex Libris and IGeLU and ELUNA
The latest agreement has taken over 9 months to achieve signoff and can be located
The main changes are as follows
- reformatted the agreement to allow easier allocation of new products top the agreement
- increase Leganto development points from 40 to 50
- increase Summons development points from 150 to 200
- increase Primo development points from to 150 to 200
2018 Addendum on Leganto (superseded)
In 2018 the Agreement has been amended to add Leganto to it. The Leganto WG has successfully collaborated with Ex Libris to enhance the product in close cooperation with the development partners of the young product and the early adopters. Now the customer base has reached more than 50 implementation worldwide and therefore, we agreed with Ex Libris to commit the a minimum amount of development resources for Leganto 40 points per annum, starting in 2018 with 30 points.
You can read the Addendum here: Leganto_Addendum_Product_Development_Collaboration_Agreement-20180503
2016 Addendum on Summon (superseded)
In 2016 the Agreement has been amended to add Summon and the Summon index to it. The merger between ProQuest and Ex Libris has added Summon as Unified Discovery&Delivery service to the Ex Libris product portfolio. Summon offers similar functionality and services like Primo and will be developed and maintained by Ex Libris. Therefore, we agreed with Ex Libris to commit the exact same amount of development resources for Summon as for Primo, i.e. 150 points per annum.
You can read the Addendum here: Summon_Addendum_Product_Development_Collaboration_Agreement-20160705
2014 Update (superseded)
In 2014 the Agreement has been updated and amended. The new Product Development Collaboration Agreement now ensures a defined development investment for ALL products (except DigiTool, Rosetta, Ustat, and Verde) by Ex Libris to fulfill the community prioritized enhancements, ensuring the input and leverage of the customer community on the development and enhancement of Ex Libris products.
With this agreement the community can decide which concrete new functions are developed and Ex Libris opens a fixed part of the company development capacity to fulfill these expressed needs of the community, thus improving the usability and functionality for our daily work.
The new agreement supersedes the prior Product Development Collaboration Agreement between Ex Libris, IGeLU, and ELUNA from 2008, the Agreement on procedure for additions of resources to the Ex Libris Knowledge Bases between Ex Libris, IGeLU, and ELUNA from 2011, and the prior IGeLU Aleph process.
You can read the document here: Product_Development_Collaboration_Agreement