Welcome to the7th Annual Meeting in Zurich

11th September – 13th September 2012

Jirka KendeIGeLU Chair

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Welcome to the conference!

370 participants from 33 countries

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA

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IGeLU Membership

Growing in spite of the economic crises

• As of August 2012: 351 member institutions from 42 countries

• New members in 2012 from China, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Romania, United Kingdom

• New countries represented: China and Malta

• High representation from: United Kingdom (49), Sweden (29), USA (28), Italy (26), Germany (24), Australia (21) France (17), Austria (15), Finland (14), Switzerland (12), Czech Republic and Israel (11), Norway (10)

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Australia Austria Belgium Cyprus Czech Rep. DenmarkFinland France Germany Greece Hungary IcelandIreland Israel Italy Latvia Liechtenstein LuxembourgNetherlands Norway Poland Portugal Singapore South AfricaSpain Sweden Switzerland UK USA

Total = 210 members in 29 countries

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Members at the 7th IGeLU meeting in 2012Total = 351 members in 42 countries

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Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada ChileChina Croatia Cyprus Czech Rep. Denmark Estonia FinlandFrance Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland IsraelItaly Japan Latvia Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta NetherlandsNew Zealand Norway Poland Portugal Rep.Korea Romania SingaporeSlovenia South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan UKUSA

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Chair’s Report on IGeLU Activities and Budget

• My report on IGeLU activities since the last conference as well as the final budget for 2011 and draft budgets for 2012 and 2013 are in your conference folder

• Short report in Session 5 : IGeLU Update and Assembly of Members in the afternoon

• Please attend the session – your approval of the report and the budgets is needed!

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IGeLU’s officers

Steering Committee (SC) Fiona Burton, Michele Newberry, Michael Fake, Lukas Koster, Peter Klien with the support of our treasurer (and more) Guido Badalamenti

Product Working Group (PWG) CoordinatorsMike Ryan for ALEPH, Ray Delahunty for Voyager, Luís Miguel Costa for Digitool, Jeremy Acland for MetaLib, Mandy Stewart for Primo, Mark Dehmlow for SFX, Andreas Sabisch for Verde

Special Interest Working Group (SIWG) CoordinatorsPeter Klien for consortia, Marcus Zerbst for ARC, Alexandra Esteves for special libraries, and Lukas Koster for the new SIWG Linked Open Data

Plus active members of the PWGs and SIWGs and volunteers

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Voting on the Steering Committee and Chair

2012 Five open positions:

• The terms of Fiona Burton, Lukas Koster, Michele Newberry, and myself have expired and Michael Fake leaves because of changes in his job environment

• SC candidates: Fiona Burton, Mark Dehmlow, Theo Engelman, Naomi Greidinger

• Candidacy open until the Assembly of members in the afternoon

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Voting procedure

• Today, during the day: pick up your voting slips and the proxy votes at the registration desk

• Today, in the afternoon at 16.30 during the Assembly of Members:

- Introduction of the candidates for the Chair and the SC - - Voting for the Chair during the session - - Announcement of the results of the Chair Election - - Voting for the Steering Committee starts after the session and continues until Thursday 12.00 (voting box at the registration desk)

• Thursday afternoon at 16:30 during the Closing Session: - Announcement of the results of the voting for the Steering Committee

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Organisational issues

• Collecting presentations: If possible, hand over your presentation at registration any time before the session, otherwise please save in folder “IGELU 2012”

• Ex Libris support and consultation room: Open throughout the conference in room F 33.5, schedule in the participant information

• SFX round table session limited to 40 people, first come first serve

• Questions for Q&A can be submitted until Wednesday 12.00

• Social event tonight at 7 pm in Kongreßhaus

• Evaluation survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s/Zurich2012

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Thanks to the ETH Zurich Organising Team…

Christine Bärtsch, Monika Stehle, Nicole Kienast, Blanka Kraus, Jonas Stöckli, Annette Trinkler, Christine Verhoustraeten,

Shivaneshan Vinasithampy

and many others from the ETH who were constantly involved in the logistical preparations of the conference!

With special thanks to Dr. Wolfram Neubauer who kindly gave us shelter, Andreas Kirstein who supported us from the very beginning, and to Christine Bärtsch who chaired the team.

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... and to the Zurich Programme Planning Group!

Jeremy Acland, Luis Miguel Costa, Matthias Gross, Gary Johnson, Ebe Kartus, Peter Klien,  Mathias Kratzer, Lassi Lager,

Inga Overkamp, Mike Ryan, Andreas Sabisch, Mandy Stewart, Ray Delahunty, Marcus Zerbst

Together with the members of the IGeLU Steering Committee and the Coordinators of the PWGs and SIWGs

and with special thanks to Michele Newberry who again chaired the team!

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IGeLU Annual Meeting 2013

The 8th IGeLU Annual meeting will take place from

September 8th – September 10th 2013 in Berlin, Germany

at The Free University Berlin

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Thank you!