1. Introducing ICAU International Consortium of Aleph Users by Guido Badalamenti 2th NAAUG Meeting 2001 McGill Univ., Montreal 3-5 June

2. The history of ICAU It was born in 1991 It was refounded in 1993 Emendments in 1993 and 1995 Statutes approved in 1996 Few emendments in 1998 Organs of ICAU: Assembly of Members Steering Committee Chair

3. ICAU Steering Committee Larry Woods - University of Iowa - USA contact with North & South Americ users Gõran Skogmar - National Library of Sweden contact with National user groups and with other SW user groups Jiri Kende - Bibliothek der FU, Berlin - Germany cooperation SC and Module Coordinators Else M. Poulsen - Aalborg University - Denmark satisfaction survey Guido Badalamenti - Siena University - Italy ICAU chair: representative and SC act. coordination

4. Membership statistics

5. More in details 10 new subscriptions for 2001 2 From North America in total: 173 invoices have been sent out 119 invoices have been paied by now 7 USA and 1 Canadian users subscribed

6. Country by Country (29)

7. The aim of ICAU The International Consortium associates libraries to increase their mutual awareness of each other’s developments with Aleph to share knowlege about new standard, products and software related to Aleph to increase their influence on in the prospects of ALEPH development and future changes

8. Mutual awareness “Not reinventing the wheel!” is the right observation of somebody of you in the Aleph-NA discussion list, organisation needs problems in implementation activation of new modules workflow output production integration of resources

9. To share knowledge Importance of sharing information and special applications the openess of Aleph DB is useful for special developments lack of special features that people were used to have in other SW exchange of knowledge about Oracle, … exchange of product exchange of information about other SW W3C raccomandations

10. To influence ALEPH developm. Importance of User associations Publicity of Staff evaluation Investigation of end-user satisfaction Globalisation of ALEPH market Satisfaction Survey Request database Agreement with ExLibris http://www.icau.org

11. Aleph user Associations Icau isn’t alternative to other user groups Icau wishes the organisation of National, or multinational user Groups Formal and informal Associations (13): Brasil (GUARS), Czech R.-Slovakia (SUAleph), Denmark, French-speaking countries (AUFA) Germany-Austria-Switzerland (DACH), Hungary, Israel, Italy (ITALE), Mexico, USA (NAAUG), Norway, Poland (PolALEPH), Sweden (AlephSWE), UK and Ireland (AUG- UKI)

12. ICAU annual meetings Together with the System Seminar and the National Meetings, it is the main opportunity to meet other Users the 12. will be in Greece Salonika, October 15-17 2001 CEDEFOP - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training deadline for registration: August (?) Icau members are allowed free of charge Update reports are request to all the Icau members even to not participant Institutions

13. ICAU activities An important place among the goals takes the collection of the Aleph 500 Development Requests Web engine (to share with NAAUG ?) Module Coordinators (13) Lucia Casanova, John Dovey, Colum Hourihane, Federica Imperiale, Jiri Kende, Andrea Kroneisl, Stephen Prowse, Iva Pribramska, Margaret Robinson, Goran Skogmar, Martin Vojnar, Michael Voss, Christian Zeising

14. Results PRB database for Aleph300 and Aleph500 is going to be inplemented Request ‘96 (17/20) Request ‘97 (14/15) Request ‘98 (8/11) Suggestions ‘99 (?/41) Request 2000-01 (11+/50) 4 requests version 15.2, 7 req. Vers.16.1

15. Communication ALEPHINT (open list) 1993-2000, maint. by Tel-Aviv University ICAU (restricted to users and developers) since 1999, maintained by ExLibris ICAU-L (restricted to users) since 2000, maint. by Notre Dame University ALEPH-NA (North America users) since 2000, maint. by Notre Dame University What about merging ALEPH-NA & ICAU-L ?