Welcome to the
9th Annual Meeting in Oxford
15th September – 17th September 2014
Jirka Kende
IGeLU Chair
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Welcome to the conference!
415 participants from 32 countries
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan,
Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago,
United Kingdom, USA
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IGeLU Membership
Stable membership
• As of August 2014: 342 member institutions from 42 countries
• New members in 2014 from Australia, France, Italy, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Norway, Poland, United Kingdom and USA
• High representation from: United Kingdom (47), USA (30), Italy (29),
Germany (24), Sweden (22), Australia (21), France (17), Austria (15),
Switzerland (14), Czech Republic and Israel (11), Finland and Denmark (10)
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Members at the 1st IGeLU meeting in 2006
Total = 210 members in 29 countries
25
20
15
10
5
0
Australia
Finland
Ireland
Netherlands
Spain
Austria
France
Israel
Norway
Sweden
Belgium
Germany
Italy
Poland
Switzerland
Cyprus
Greece
Latvia
Portugal
UK
Czech Rep.
Hungary
Liechtenstein
Singapore
USA
Denmark
Iceland
Luxembourg
South Africa
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Members at the 9th IGeLU meeting in 2014
Total = 342 members in 42 countries
45
35
25
15
5
-5
Australia
China
France
Italy
Norway
Spain
Austria
Croatia
Germany
Japan
Poland
Sweden
Belgium
Cyprus
Greece
Latvia
Portugal
Switzerland
Brazil
Czech Rep.
Hungary
Luxembourg
Rep.Korea
Taiwan
Bulgaria
Denmark
Iceland
Malta
Romania
Ukraine
Canada
Estonia
Ireland
Netherlands
Singapore
UK
Chile
Finland
Israel
New Zealand
South Africa
USA
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Chair’s Report on IGeLU Activities
• Basic activities of IGeLU performed well
• Continuing structural changes in the organization:
-- merge of Working groups, joint Working groups with ELUNA
-- future of Digitool and Verde Product working Groups in discussion
-- CKB and Primo central enhancements under consideration
• Update of the Development agreement
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Chair’s Report on IGeLU Activities
• My report on IGeLU activities since the last conference as well as
the final budget for 2013 and draft budgets for 2014 and 2015 are
in your conference folder
• Short report in Session 6: IGeLU Update and Assembly of
Members in the afternoon
• Please attend the session – your approval of the report and the
budgets is needed!
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IGeLU’s officers
Steering Committee (SC)
Fiona Burton, Mark Dehmlow, Theo Engelman, Naomi Greidinger and Peter
Klien with the support of our treasurer (and more) Guido Badalamenti
Product Working Group (PWG) Coordinators
Augusto Ribeiro for ALEPH, Betsy Friesen for Alma, Luís Miguel Costa for
Digitool, Christian Hänger for the joint MetaLib / Primo PWG, Bas Vat for
SFX, Andreas Sabisch for Verde, Ray Delahunty for Voyager
Special Interest Working Group (SIWG) Coordinators
Peter Klien for Consortia, Marcus Zerbst for ARC, Corey Harper for the
SIWG Linked Open Data and Masud Khokhar for the Interoperability SIWG
Plus active members of the PWGs and SIWGs and volunteers
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Voting on the Steering Committee
2014: three open positions:
• The terms of Fiona Burton, Naomi Greidinger and Theo Engelman
have expired
• Candidates: Naomi and Theo candidate again, with David Allen
a new candidate from Australia
• Candidacy open until the Assembly of members in the afternoon
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Voting procedure
• Today, during the day: pick up your voting slips and the proxy votes
at the registration desk
• Today, in the afternoon at 16.50 during the Assembly of Members:
- Introduction of the candidates
• Voting starts after the session and continues until Wednesday 12.00
(voting box at the registration desk)
• Wednesday afternoon at 16:00 during the Closing Session:
- Announcement of the results
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Organisational issues
• Collecting presentations: deliver your presentation at the registration desk
any time before the session, otherwise please save it on the Google Drive
folder in the room of your session
• WiFi in the North, South, East Schools, all corridors and rooms 14 & 15
• Ex Libris product demo and support consultations rooms:
Open throughout the conference in Conference room 12 on the ground floor
• Social event tonight at 7 pm in Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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Conference links
Homepage: http://reg.co.il/igelu_exlibris_2014/
Twitter hashtag: #igelu14
App for conference programme and feedback: www.igeluapp.com
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Thanks to the Oxford Organising Team…
Andrew Bonnie, Sue Egleton, Andy MacKinnon
and many others from the Bodleian Libraries
who were and still are involved in the logistical preparations
and support of the conference!
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...and to the Oxford Programme Planning Group!
Augusto Ribeiro, Betsy Friesen, Tracey Clarke, Luis Miguel
Costa, Ray Delahunty, Matthias Gross, Christian Hänger, Masud
Khokhar, Corey Harper, Anna Pienimaki, Bas Vat, Marcus Zerbst
Together with the members of the IGeLU Steering Committee and
other members of the PWGs and SIWGs
and with special thanks
to Peter Klien who chaired the team!
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IGeLU Annual Meeting 2015
The 10th IGeLU Annual meeting
will take place from
September 2nd – September 4th 2015
in Budapest, Hungary
at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Thank you!