Howdy Colleagues,

Join us May 10-13 in Fort Worth, Texas for ELUNA 2010! Registration is now open!

For a quick look at the program, go to the conference web site. We encourage you to attend the Ex Libris Technical Seminar immediately preceding ELUNA on May 9-10, 2010 as well!

Why you should attend:

* Content! 115 sessions total, including 68 customer presentations, 15 Special Interest Group roundtables, 6 Regional User Group meetings

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The ELUNA Steering Committee is offering a number of changes to the current Constitution & Bylaws for the organization, detailed in the attachments below. ELUNA member institution site contacts will receive and e-mail to vote on these after 30 days of being available, and the changes are open for all to see, regardless of membership status with ELUNA. The voting period will be 10 days, March 23, 2010-April 1, 2010, following the 30 day notice period, February 22, 2010-March 23, 2010.

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Start: 05/09/2010 - 8:30am End: 05/13/2010 - 3:00pm

Join us for the 2010 ELUNA Conference & Ex Libris Technical Seminar in Fort Worth, TX May 9-13!

About ELUNA:

Customers of the Ex Libris Group, the leading provider of library automation solutions, will meet in Fort Worth, Texas for another great ELUNA Conference. This event will include:

* more than 70 breakout sessions,
* digital posters, featured in an evening reception, and
* Ex Libris product updates, including a strategic direction and roadmap presentation

About the Ex Libris Technical Seminar

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The Voyager Product Group (VPG) needs candidates to step forward to run for election as Leaders-at-Large. Candidates must work at an institution which is an ELUNA member and which licenses Voyager, and should have a strong knowledge of Voyager, the ability to organize and communicate with others, time, and an interest in and willingness to work on Voyager-related projects, especially enhancements. Consider nominating yourself or someone else who has the qualities and the desire to serve. *The deadline is February 19th, 2010*.

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The ELUNA Nominating Committee is now calling for nominees for election to the ELUNA Steering Committee. This year, four people will be elected. Five members of the current Steering Committee will continue to serve during the coming year. They are Bob Trotter (incoming Chair), Pascal Calarco (Current Chair/Past Chair 2010-11) Kristine Hammerstrand (Secretary), and Laura Morse. The four Steering Committee members whose terms expire in 2010 are Edward Corrado, Wil Frost, Gary Johnson and Suzanne Julich.

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In 2009 we accepted the offer from Haifa University, Israel, to host a joint IGeLU conference and system seminar in 2011. We have continued discussions with Ex Libris management and the Haifa organising committee about the most efficient way to organise these two events in order to keep the costs for our members as low as possible. Read more →

The Voyager Product Working Group members are busy on different fronts: planning for the Ghent conference and working with ELUNA counterparts on the Voyager enhancement process and how this will be incorporated into the New Enhancement Request System (NERS). We still have a little time to thrash out the details, and hope to learn from the experiences of Primo and DigiTool. Read more →

The Verde PWG, in cooperation with our ELUNA counterparts, are preparing a survey on possible enhancements to prioritize for the Ex Libris development team. As Verde customers already know, Ex Libirs have only committed to developing small enhancements which won’t affect the fundamental architecture of Verde. Read more →

NERS was used for the first time by Primo customers in December 2009, in order to vote on a list of forty enhancements. These had been filtered from a much larger list sent to the Ex-Libris Primo Product Manager, Gilad Gal. As the Primo customers were pioneers there were some predictable glitches in getting the system working but the process was ultimately successful. Read more →

The MetaLib PWG has been busily working on a number of items:

MetaLib Next Gen – Use Case Scenarios:
We are still keen to have input from the MetaLib community into these use case scenarios. Visit EL Commons at http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=24610263
and add your comments. We need input from Academic and especially non-academic libraries.

MetaLib Survey: Read more →

As DigiTool customers will already have heard from ExLibris, the roadmap for Rosetta has changed, with the product now scheduled to become part of the first version of the URM. This new roadmap will delay the launch of Rosetta, and so ExLibris have decided to launch a new minor version of DigiTool before the end of 2010 (DigiTool 3.3). Read more →

ARC users have awaited enhancements for a long time, and recently the Aleph Minor Release v.20.1.0 became available, which integrates 17 new fields! This is a success for the IGeLU ARC SIWG and good news for most of the ARC users. Why only “most”? Read more →

Thinking of submitting a proposal for the Ghent conference? Some further reflections on the Aleph component at the Helsinki conference may give you some ideas about how to make a presentation interesting and engaging: Read more →

At the beginning of March 2010 the Steering Committee will hold its regular between-conferences meeting. This time it will be in Ghent, where we will have a chance to approve the final budget for the conference and discuss with the very enthusiastic organising committee any questions that are still outstanding. Read more →

Based on the Product Development Cooperation Agreement of May 13, 2008, talks have been conducted between Ex Libris, IGeLU and ELUNA to come to a procedure for submitting and prioritising requests by IGeLU and ELUNA members for new databases and targets for SFX and MetaLib. Read more →

The call for presentations for IGeLU 2010, August 30-September 1 in Ghent, Belgium is online

IGeLU invites you to submit proposals for presentations and poster sessions at its 5th annual conference in Ghent, Belgium. The conference will take place from 29 August-1 September. Information and links are on the IGeLU website. The Ghent website is coming soon.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 1 April 2010 Read more →

We would appreciate your cooperation on the following: * Please fill out all fields as thoroughly as possible. * Deadlines for proposals: ** Speaker presentations/lightning talks: 1 April, 2010 ** Poster sessions: 1 May, 2010 * You will receive acceptance notification by 1 June, 2010. Read more →

In this issue: From Helsinki to Ghent + Paddling Like A Swan: Organizing the Helsinki Conference + Primo PWG Primed & Ready + A Note on RDA + What I Learned in Helsinki: The Voyage of Voyager + Metalib the Road to the Next Generation + The Verde Roadmap + New Steering Committee + Alpha Beate: Letters from Abroad + Feeding Twitter + A New Name for NERS + Words from Helsinki + On Sacred Cows + The T Read more →