1. Change in the Air

2.  Held in Schaumburg, Illinois for the first, and last time, from April 26-28  TUG Attendees:  UG: Wayne Johnston  WLU: Don Hamilton & Greg Sennema  UW: Allan Bell & Charles Woods  103 sessions over 3 days (see list at end of presentation)  Multiple tracks  Acquisitions, circulation, cataloguing, OPAC  Consortia, small libraries, Law Libraries, etc  Technical and Special Interest Group (SIG sessions)

3.  New Exlibris managers introduced themselves to the Voyager customers  Expounded on the theme of “Come Together”  Promised to support both Voyager and Aleph systems through to 2008

4.  ExLibris is designing Library systems under the themes of:  modern resource-discovery tools (eg Primo, Metalib, etc)  Staff modules designed under the theme of Unified Resource Management (eg. Verde, SFX)  Staff modules need to be more flexible, and more easily adapt to differences in format, licensing models, etc.  For example, in the future merge acquisitions, ERM (Verde) and OpenURL (SFX) software and database

5.  Vanderbilt demonstration site: http://alphasearch.library.vanderbilt.eduhttp://alphasearch.library.vanderbilt.edu

6.  Joint Verde/SFX presentation by Netty Laglace and Ted Koppel  Features:  Improved Workflow management tools  Improved licensing management  SFX/Verde KB management:  Batch synchronization of the two databases available now  Merge of the two databases in the fall  Merge of the two applications into one in 2008  Working to streamline data input  Links to Voyager Acquisitions and WebVoyage being developed.

7.  Lipstick for Webvoyage:  Spell-checking using Google code  Adding Amazon Book covers, and Google Books Full Text.  Dynamic Map Display  Greg Sennema’s presentation on WebVoyage Graphics using Fireworks.

8.  Gary Strawns workflow angels:  Location changer  Spine label program  VgerSelect (pull records from the database)  MacroExpress  Linkchecker program …and a stinker: “Mending the Gap between Electronic and Print Collections in the ILS and Library Web Site using the Semantic Web”

9.  Or, Long Beach, California (ELUNA)  The Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA) was founded in the fall of 2005. ELUNA succeeds the former North American users groups including NAAUG (the ALEPH group) and the North American component of SMUG (the SFX and MetaLib group). ELUNA is a users group for ALEPH®, SFX®, MetaLib®, DigiTool® and Verde® users as well as users of any upcoming Ex Libris products. ELUNA meets once a year, and users elect a board to manage the affairs of the organization.  Or, Brno, Czech Republic (IGeLU)  The International Group of Ex Libris Users is an independent, user-initiated organization managed by an elected committee of users. Jiri Kende, of the Free University Berlin, is the current Chair of the organization. A three-day meeting of IGeLU members is held annually. Intensive discussions and presentations focus on all aspects of support, upcoming releases, and future development plans.

10.  A list of all sessions, with descriptions and attachments of PowerPoint presentations can be found at: https://support.endinfosys.com/cust/community/vgroup/index_2007.html username: WATERLOO password: 8DD7JIDI https://support.endinfosys.com/cust/community/vgroup/index_2007.html  Questions?