Welcome to the 10 th Annual Meeting in Budapest 2 th September – 4 th September 2015 Jirka Kende IGeLU Chair

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 Welcome to the conference! 420 participants from 32 countries Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 IGeLU Membership Growing membership As of August 2015: 368 member institutions from 43 countries New members in 2015 from Australia, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Israel Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and USA High representation from: United Kingdom (54), USA (32), Italy (29), Germany (27), Australia (23), Sweden (22), France (17), Austria (15), Switzerland (14), Israel and Norway (12), Czech republic (11)

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 Members at the 1 st IGeLU meeting in 2006 in Stockholm Total = 210 members in 29 countries

Total = 342 members in 41 countries Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 Members at the 5 st IGeLU meeting in 2010 in Ghent

IGeLU Chair's 2015 Total = 368 members in 43 countries Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 Members at the 10 st IGeLU meeting in 2015 in Budapest

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 Chair’s Report on IGeLU Activities Continuing structural changes in the organization: -- further joint Working groups with ELUNA -- integrating former Digitool and Verde activities in Alma PWG New Development agreement -- First Alma enhancement process in Higher commitment for Primo, new enhancement process for Primo central Collaboration with Ex Libris -- SaaS environment -- Focus / Advisory group on CKBs, Alma Community zone, Alma UI

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 Chair’s Report on IGeLU Activities My report on IGeLU activities since the last conference as well as the final budget for 2014 and draft budgets for 2015 and 2016 in your conference folder Short report in Session 4: IGeLU Update and Assembly of Members in the afternoon Please attend the session – your approval of the report and the budgets is needed!

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 IGeLU’s officers Steering Committee (SC) Dave Allen, 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, Christian Hänger for the joint MetaLib / Primo PWG, Bas Vat for SFX, Andreas Sabisch for Verde, Nicholas Volk for Voyager Special Interest Working Group (SIWG) Coordinators Marcus Zerbst for ARC, Peter Klien for Consortia, 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

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 Voting on the Steering Committee and Chair 2015: two open positions on Steering Committee and Chair The terms of Mark Dehmlow and Peter Klien have expired My last term as Chair also expired Candidates: Theo Engelman for Chair (if elected then 3 open positions on the Steering Committee), Tracey V. Clarke, Mark Dehmlow and Shameem Nilofar for SC Candidacy open until the Assembly of members in the afternoon

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 Voting procedure Today, during the day: pick up your voting slips and the proxy votes at the registration desk Today, in the afternoon at during the Assembly of Members: - Introduction of the candidates - Voting on the Chair position starts immediately during and after the session Voting for Steering Committee positions starts on Thursday after announcing the results of the Chair election and continues until Friday (voting box at the registration desk) Friday afternoon at 16:00 during the Closing Session: - Announcement of the results of the elections for the Steering committee

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 Organisational issues Collecting presentations: deliver your presentation at the registration desk any time before the session, otherwise please save it in folder “IGeLU 2015” in the room of your session Ex Libris Product and Support Consultation Room Open throughout the conference (Room A 227) Social event on the boat “Táncsics” on the River Danube tomorrow from – 21.30, embarking at "Vigadó tér" (details see conference booklet or website) Developers Day on Saturday at the Academy of sciences

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 Conference links Conference website: Twitter hashtag: #igelu15 App for conference agenda and feedback: Developers day website :

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 Thanks to the Budapest Organizing Team… Erika Nagy, Naszádos Edit, Gábor Kamocsa, Katalin Szépvölgyi, Csilla Kalmár, Anita Molnár, Agoston Nemeth and many others from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the University Library of Eötvös Loránd University and the Library of the Hungarian Parliament who were and still are involved in the preparations and support of the conference!

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 to the Budapest Programme Planning Group Andy MacKinnon, Augusto Ribeiro, Betsy Friesen, Tracey Clarke, Luis Miguel Costa, Ray Delahunty, Matthias Gross, Christian Hänger, Masud Khokhar, Corey Harper, Bas Vat, Nicholas Volk, 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!

Annual meeting in Budapest and last but not least to all sponsors! Commercial sponsors Proquest, YBP Library Services Inlead, RentIt Ex-LH, Ex Libris non-commercial sponsors House of the National Assembly ELTE University Hungarian State Television Company (MTVA)

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 IGeLU Annual Meeting 2016 The 11th IGeLU Annual meeting will take place from 5. – 7. September 2016 in Trondheim, Norway hosted by the BIBSYS Library System Consortium

Annual meeting in Budapest 2015 Thank you!