Dear Reader, Welcome to the first News-in-Brief of 2016, and it has been quite an exciting start to the year. This edition is packed with information about the various happenings, which we believe will be useful to the IGeLU user community. IGeLU 2015 @ Budapest saw the election of a new IGeLU Chair and Jirka […]
Category: SFX
SFX Product Working Group News
The PWG has two new members: David Boyd from the University of Bristol in the UK, and Jiri Pavlik from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. The full list of the members can be found at https://new.igelu.org/products/sfx. The change of SFX’s database from MySQL to MariaDB is nearing a successful completion. All hosted sites have […]
SFX Product Working Group news
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 […]
News in Brief May 2015
We invite you Dear reader, This first News in Brief in 2015 is again loaded with information we believe to be important for you. Of course we have updates on the upcoming 10th IGeLU Conference in Budapest. But there is more… All IGeLU officers work hard on a voluntary base to serve the interest of our community. […]
News from the SFX PWG
2014 Software enhancement voting results The 2014 SFX software enhancement cycle was completed early December and the results of the voting have been sent to Ex Libris for evaluation. According SFX Product Manager, Ex Libris is currently planning to do the first five enhancements: KB Manager: Ability to add author information to e-books records in […]
News from the SFX PWG
So long and thank you Mathias The SFX Product Working Group met in Oxford during the IGeLU 2014 conference to discuss changes in our PWG and goals for the year 2015. We are very sorry to announce that our long-term member Mathias Kratzer has left the PWG after the IGeLU 2014 conference. We would like to […]
IGeLU Working Groups open positions
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 […]
IGeLU Working Groups news
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 […]
SFX PWG News
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 […]
News from the SFX Product Working Group
SFX KBAB The SFX Product Working Group met in Berlin during the IGeLU 2013 conference to discuss our goals for the year 2014. At IGeLU 2013, an SFX Knowledgebase Advisory Board (KBAB) was formed as a joint initiative of IGELU and ELUNA to advise and work with Ex Libris on issues relating to the quality […]