Conference Reports

ELUNA 09: Voyager 7 OPAC customizations

Two presentations in one time slot:
Steven Mussett, University of Evansville
Paul Asay, Indiana State University

ELUNA 09: Ex Libris Update

Ex Libris Update
Matti Shem Tov, President and CEO, Ex Libris Group
Carl Grant, President, Ex Libris North America

ELUNA 09: Verde Product Update

Verde Product Update
Nettie Lagace
Product Director, Ex Libris

ELUNA 09: Voyager Product Update

Voyager Product Update
Mike Dicus
Voyager Product Manager, Ex Libris

ELUNA 09: SFX Product Update

SFX Product Update
Christine Stohn
SFX Product Manager, Ex Libris

ELUNA 09: bX

On May 5, Ex Libris rolled out the shiny new fabulousness that is bX. View the press release.

bX is, in the company's words, a scholarly recommender service. It can be embedded in the SFX Services Menu or, using the bX API, in the html of any Web page. Basically, bX looks at the article a user is requesting through the Services Menu and recommends other articles related to that citation. The idea is similar to Amazon's "Customers who bought this item also looked at...."

ELUNA 09: Dissertation or Dissertation Abstracts

Dissertation or Dissertation Abstracts
Margery Tibbets
California Digital Library

ELUNA 09: Dissertations and OpenURL

Dissertations and OpenURL
Geoff Sinclair
Nipissing University / Canadore College

(my own work on our local Dissertations & Theses FT target - forthcoming - is based on Geoff's work described here)

Following ELUNA on twitter

If you want to follow commentary on ELUNA from more attendees, you can check out the conference's twitter tag #eluna09.

ELUNA 09 - Service Oriented Librarianship

Service Oriented Librarianship - Back to Basics?
Oren Beit-Arie
Ex Libris

The title is a riff on various catchphrases that pepper Oren's talk:
Software As A Service
Computing As A Service
Data As A Service