Welcome to the 9 th Annual Meeting in Oxford 15 th September – 17 th September 2014

1. Welcome to the 9th Annual Meeting in Oxford 15th September – 17th September 2014 Jirka KendeIGeLU Chair

2. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 Welcome to the conference! 415 participants from 32 countries Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom,USA

3. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 IGeLU Membership Stable membership • As of August 2014: 342 member institutions from 42 countries • New members in 2014 from Australia, France, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, United Kingdom and USA • High representation from:United Kingdom (47), USA (30), Italy (29), Germany (24), Sweden (22), Australia (21), France (17), Austria (15), Switzerland (14), Czech Republic and Israel (11), Finland and Denmark (10)

4. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 Members at the 1st IGeLU meeting in 2006 Total = 210 members in 29 countries

5. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 Members at the 9th IGeLU meeting in 2014 Total = 342 members in 42 countries

6. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 Chair’s Report on IGeLU Activities • Basic activities of IGeLU performed well • Continuing structural changes in the organization: -- merge of Working groups, joint Working groups with ELUNA -- future of Digitool and Verde Product working Groups in discussion -- CKB and Primo central enhancements under consideration • Update of the Development agreement

7. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 Chair’s Report on IGeLU Activities • My report on IGeLU activities since the last conference as well as the final budget for 2013 and draft budgets for 2014 and 2015 are in your conference folder • Short report in Session 6: IGeLU Update and Assembly of Members in the afternoon • Please attend the session – your approval of the report and the budgets is needed!

8. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 IGeLU’s officers Steering Committee (SC) Fiona Burton, 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, Luís Miguel Costa for Digitool, Christian Hänger for the joint MetaLib / Primo PWG, Bas Vat for SFX, Andreas Sabisch for Verde, Ray Delahunty for Voyager Special Interest Working Group (SIWG) Coordinators Peter Klien for Consortia, Marcus Zerbst for ARC, 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

9. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 Voting on the Steering Committee 2014: three open positions: • The terms of Fiona Burton, Naomi Greidinger and Theo Engelman have expired • Candidates: Naomi and Theo candidate again, with David Allen a new candidate from Australia • Candidacy open until the Assembly of members in the afternoon

10. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 Voting procedure • Today, during the day: pick up your voting slips and the proxy votes at the registration desk • Today, in the afternoon at 16.50 during the Assembly of Members: - Introduction of the candidates • Voting starts after the session and continues until Wednesday 12.00 (voting box at the registration desk) • Wednesday afternoon at 16:00 during the Closing Session: - Announcement of the results

11. Annual meeting in Berlin, 2013 Organisational issues • Collecting presentations: deliver your presentation at the registration desk any time before the session, otherwise please save it on the Google Drive folder in the room of your session • WiFi in the North, South, East Schools, all corridors and rooms 14 & 15 • Ex Libris product demo and support consultations rooms: Open throughout the conference in Conference room 12 on the ground floor • Social event tonight at 7 pm in Oxford University Museum of Natural History

12. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 Conference links Homepage: http://reg.co.il/igelu_exlibris_2014/ Twitter hashtag: #igelu14 App for conference programme and feedback: www.igeluapp.com

13. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 Thanks to the Oxford Organising Team… Andrew Bonnie, Sue Egleton, Andy MacKinnon and many others from the Bodleian Librarieswho were and still are involved in the logistical preparations and support of the conference!

14. Annual meeting in Berlin, 2013 ...and to the Oxford Programme Planning Group! Augusto Ribeiro, Betsy Friesen, Tracey Clarke, Luis Miguel Costa, Ray Delahunty, Matthias Gross, Christian Hänger, Masud Khokhar,Corey Harper, Anna Pienimaki, Bas Vat, 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!

15. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 IGeLU Annual Meeting 2015 The 10th IGeLU Annual meeting will take place from September 2nd – September 4th 2015 in Budapest, Hungary at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

16. Annual meeting in Oxford, 2014 Thank you!