ELUNA Update Kentucky Voyager Users Group

ELUNA UpdateKentucky Voyager Users GroupJune 4, 2010Pascal CalarcoUniversity of Notre DameELUNA Steering Committee Past Chair

ELUNA 2010Fort Worth, TX477 Attendees115 sessions, 118 speakers49 States & DCCanada, West Indies, UK, Australia,New Zealand, Germany, Portugal,Sweden, Israel

ELUNA 2010 Content

ELUNA Repositoryhttp://documents.el-una.org/

ELUNA 2011• Milwaukee Hilton City Center on Wednesday, May11 through Friday, May 13, 2011• hosting institution is the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, with assistance from UWMadison and other UW institutions in the area.• Ex Libris Technical Seminar will precede theconference on Monday, May 9 and Tuesday May10, 2011.

ELUNA: What are we?Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA)Member Advocacy to Vendor: also nonmembers;about 2,050 libraries in NALearning Organization: conferencesFacilitate information sharing, bestpracticesCollaboration with sister organization,IGeLU (International Group of Ex LibrisUsers)Engage with broader profession

ELUNA Steering Committee

ELUNA Organizationmember institutions in North America &CaribbeanVoting rights: Steering Committee,Constitution & BylawsSteering CommitteeWork groups, focus groups, etc.Product Working GroupsRegional Interest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups

Membership 2010• 285 paid memberships as of April 30, 2010– Brazil (1), Canada (23), Trinidad & Tobago (4),United States (260) ­­ 47 States + District ofColumbia– 189 individual institutions– 62 individual institutions who are also consortiamembers– 34 consortia members encompassing 654 libraries

Areas of focus:ELUNA 2009­2010:Year in Brief– Collaboration with Ex Libris– Collaboration with IGeLU– Enhance communication with membership– Bylaws revisions

Collaboration with Ex Libris• URM Focus Groups• Monthly product calls: Ex Libris­ELUNA­IGeLU• Monthly ELUNA/IGeLU Steering Committee Chaircalls with Ex Libris• Bimonthly ELUNA SC – Ex Libris NA calls• Collaborative testing: Aleph, Voyager, Primo• OCLC WorldCat record use policy advocacy• NERS data coordination with Product WorkingGroups & Product Managers

Collaboration with IGeLUDevelopment of completely new shared system forELUNA and IGeLU product enhancement requests:NERS;work began with meetings at IGeLU 2009 Madrid,through present; Bob Trotter (GALILEO), MarkDehmlow (Notre Dame/MALC) developers; will behosted at University of Siena (Italy)Ongoing collaboration with product­specific issuesusing NERSPWG joint meetings at ELUNA & IGeLU started atALA Midwinter 2009 (Denver)

Enhance communication withmembershipTransformed last NA product list (ALEPH­NA) toglobal list shared with ELUNA & IGeLUCreated new de­duplicated list from all productlists, ELUNA­ANNOUNCE­L (4755 subscribers);can opt out of listMigrated website from Drupal to WordpressImplemented documents repository usingePrints; 450 presentations & other documentsfrom NAAUG, EndUser, ELUNA, RUGs

ELUNA websitehttp://el-una.org/

Constitution & Bylaws RevisionsEnhance continuity & leadership capability byextending SC terms to three years from twoPast Chair now gains vote on SCChanged “Product Group” to “Product WorkingGroup” to harmonize with IGeLU terminologyELUNA funding to RUGs formalizedPWGs without leadership will be led by SCmembers

Product Working Groups:ELUNA's CoreOne PWG for each product in Ex Libris' offerings (6)Comprised of expert users in a particular productFocused on user advocacy with product development& governanceFacilitate product enhancement & support issuesClose working relationship with Product ManagerSteering Committee LiaisonCollaboration with IGeLU PWGMonthly calls with all aboveCollaborative testing of major product releases

ELUNA Regional User GroupsGeographically­defined ELUNA groups11 currently active RUGsDC, Mid­Atlantic, South Central,Southwest, Georgia, Great Lakes, Hawaii,Kentucky, Northwest, Southeast, UpperMidwest, Western CanadaScope: all Ex Libris products within thosegeographic areasELUNA and Ex Libris provide somefunding for meeting expenses

Special Interest Groups (SIG)• Cross­product or product­specific interestgroups• Library type, functional area• Some meet @ ELUNA, some just havediscussion list• Can create and sunset SIGs easily• Some SIGs also meet at otherconferences, eg. MLA, AALL, etc.

ELUNA 2010­2011 ProductWorking Group LeadersAleph: Jean Phillips, University of Florida/FCLADigiTool: Pascal Calarco, University of NotreDameMetaLib: Bennett Ponsford, Texas A&M UniversityPrimo: Dale Poulter, Vanderbilt UniversitySFX: Mark Needleman, University of FloridaVerde: Abigail Bordeaux, Harvard UniversityVoyager: Ted Schwitzner, Illinois State University