6 th Annual Meeting in Haifa 11 th September 13 th September Jirka Kende IGeLU Chair

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1 6 th Annual Meeting in Haifa 11 th September 13 th September 2011 Jirka Kende IGeLU Chair

2 Musical welcome to Haifa University Alexander Kellarev Fantasy and Fugue by Alexandre Pierre François Boëly

3 Welcome to the conference! 418 participants from 34 countries worldwide Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapur, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA.

4 Members at the 1 st IGeLU meeting in 2006 Total = 210 members in 29 countries Australia Austria Belgium Cyprus Czech Rep. Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Singapore South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland UK USA

5 Members at the 6 th IGeLU meeting in 2011 Total = 349 members in 41 countries Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile Croatia Cyprus Czech Rep. Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Japan Latvia Liechtenstein Luxembourg Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal Rep.Korea Romania Singapore Slovenia South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan UK USA

6 IGeLU Membership Steady growth As of August 2011: 349 member institutions from 40 countries New members in 2011 from Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Sweden and United Kingdom New country represented: Bulgaria High representation from: United Kingdom (49), USA (32), Sweden (30), Italy (25), Australia and Germany (21), Austria and France (15), Finland (14), Czech Republic and Israel (12), Switzerland (11), Denmark and Norway (10)

7 Chair s Report on IGeLU Activities and Budget My report on IGeLU activities since the last conference and the final budget for 2010 and draft budgets for 2011 and 2012 in your conference folder Short report in the session 5 : IGeLU Update and Assembly of Members in the afternoon Balanced budgets in spite of the international debt crisis

8 IGeLU s officers Steering Committee (SC) Fiona Burton, Pat Busby, Michele Newberry, Michael Fake, Lukas Koster with the support of our treasurer (and more) Guido Badalamenti Product Working Group (PWG) Coordinators Mike Ryan for ALEPH, Habib Tabatabai for Voyager, Luís Miguel Costa for Digitool, Jeremy Acland for MetaLib, Mark Dehmlow for SFX, Andreas Sabisch for Verde, and Mandy Stewart for Primo Special Interest Working Group (SIWG) Coordinators Peter Klien for consortia, Marcus Zerbst for ARC, Alexandra Esteves for special libraries Plus active members of the PWGs and SIWGs and volunteers

9 Voting on the Steering Committee 2011: Two open positions: The terms of Pat Busby and Michael Fake have expired Candidacy is open till the Assembly of members in the afternoon Poster by Peter Klien: Exercises in democracy: Uncovering the mysteries of IGeLU elections

10 Voting procedure Today: pick up your voting slips and the proxy votes at the registration desk Today in the afternoon at during the Assembly of Members: - Introduction of the candidates - Voting starts during the session and continues till Tuesday (voting box at the registration desk) Tuesday afternoon: at 16:45 during the Closing Session - Announcement of the results

11 Organisational issues Collecting presentations: Folder IGELU CONFERENCE 2011 Ex Libris product and support room: open throughout the conference Questions for Q&A can still be submitted till Monday Ex Libris vs. Customers football tournament on Wednesday! Details announced later, captain of the customers: Joav Ayasa Evaluation survey:

12 Many thanks to the Haifa Organizing Team Naomi Greidinger, Boaz Dotan, Edna Isserles, Jenny Carmel, Yoav Ayash, Tzahi Shusterman and many many other colleagues from the Haifa University who were constantly involved in the logistic preparations of the conference! With special thanks to Karina Koch from Ex Libris Sarit Avni from IGT (Professional Congress Organizer)

13 ... and to the Haifa Programme Planning Group! Jeremy Acland, Boaz Botan, Luis Miguel Costa, Matthias Gross, Gary Johnson, Ebe Kartus, Peter Klien, Mathias Kratzer, Lassi Lager, Inga Overkamp, Mike Ryan, Andreas Sabisch, Mandy Stewart, Habib Tabatabai, Marcus Zerbst Together with the members of the IGeLU Steering Committee with special thanks to Pat Busby and Michele Newberry who again chaired the team!

14 IGeLU Annual Meeting 2012 The 7 th IGeLU Annual meeting will take place from September 11 th September 13 th 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland at the The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)

15 Thank you!