Annual Report from
the Swedish ExLibris user group
for the 2016INUG meeting in Trondheim
The Swedish Aleph User Group (Alephswe) was established in 1999 and was expanded in to a usergroup for all ExLibris products in Sweden in 2011 (ELUGswe).
The main tasks of ELUGswe are:
- To provide a forum for the exchange of practical experiences and information about local developments of common interest.
- To coordinate the activities of Swedish libraries using ExLibris products and maintain a list of development requests.
- To provide a common point of contact for ExLibris.
- To keep in touch with IGeLU and other user groups.
Steering committee:
Charlotte Wänelöf, Library of the Swedish Parliament, chair
Mattias Ödevidh, National Library of Sweden, treasurer
Eva Törnblom, Jönköping University Library, secretary
Lars Iselid, Umeå University Library, vice chair
In 2014 ELUGswe decided to have only one meeting a year, the annual association meeting which is held in spring. If needed, an additional webmeetingis heldsometime during the autumn.
You can reach ELUGswe at our website:
We also have a discussion list (e-mail).
Activities 2016:
- The annual association meeting held 18-19 th of April 2016 at Stockholm University Library.
- An additional webmeeting to be held in theautumn of 2016.
Annual meeting 18-19 th of April 2016
At the annual meeting there were presentations made by both ExLibris and customers, as well as discussions about different topics.
A selection from the agenda:
ExLibris a ProQuest Company
Due to the merger of Ex Libris and ProQuest, ELUGswe invited representatives from the ProQuest national user group in Sweden to participate atthe ELUGswe´s annual meeting. Together we discussed how to incorporate the ProQuest customers in the ELUGswe community.
Search personalization in PRIMO
The local Swedish representative, Kristian Wallin from Ex Libris,told us at the annual meeting that Ex Libris is discussing the introduction of implicit search personalizationin PRIMOand that this would be a default behaviour. We find this development very worrying, which is why ELUGswe wrote a Statement about this. Se the attached document.
Other activities
9th of September 2015 a web session with ExLibris and the Danish user group was held. Idan Offer, Data Services Director at Ex Libris, presented Data Services Support organisation and working methods. He and his colleagues also answered questions submitted in advance from customers.
On 18th of September 2015 an additional web meeting was held. The subject of the meeting was report/feedback from INUG, IGeLU, Developer´s Day and the web session with ExLibris and the Danish user group.
In addition ELUGswe held an ALMA day at the Karolinska Institutet University Library (KIB) in October 2015. Representatives from the Library of the Royal Institute of Technology and KIB gave a presentation about the implementation process and experience the work with ALMA. This day was day was very much appreciated by the members of ELUGswe.
Concernsthat we want to address…
- Search personalization and PRIMO
See the attached document.
Best wishes for the Trondheimmeeting!
On behalf of the ELUGswe user group
Charlotte Wänelöf, Chair
Members 2016:
There are 26 member libraries in ELUGswe. That is an increase of 4 libraries the last year. The increase is due to the merger of Ex Libris and ProQuest.
Libraries :
Borås University Library
Chalmers Library
Dalarna University Library
Gothenburg University Library
Jönköping University Library
Karolinska Institutet University Library
Kristianstad University Library
Library of the Government Offices of Sweden
Library of the Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Library of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH Library)
Library of the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV)
Library of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Library of the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
Library of the Swedish Parliament
Malmö University Library
Mid Sweden University Library
Mälardalens University Library
National Library of Sweden
Nordic Africa Institute Library
Stockholm University Library
Swedish Agricultural University Library
Swedish Film Institute Library
Swedish Institute of Children´s Books
Södertörn University Library
Umeå University Library
Örebro University Library
2018-10-151