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EndUser Group News
Wil Frost UH Manoa Library
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Changes

• Endeavor merged with Ex Libris
• Eliminated ENCompass, LFP, Meridian
• Still alive Voyager, Analyzer, JOS
• User groups merged

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EndUser Group Goals

• Improve enhancement process
• Hold a successful annual conference
• Determine future of users group for Voyager
  customers

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Enhancement Goals

• Increase customer participation
• Make process more efficient
• Ensure prompt Ex Libris feedback

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New Process

• Customers submit enhancement requests
• Ex Libris provides quick feedback
• gathers ideas broadly
• forms task forces
• opens Comment Period to all
• shares development plan

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EndUser 2007

• 82 customer breakout sessions
• 17 special interest group meetings
• 13 regional group meetings
• 11 poster sessions
• 13 Ex Libris sessions
• Almost all sessions on SupportWeb

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User Groups

• Vote to dissolve EndUser
• ELUNA and IGELU
• EndUser board members continue
• Voyager Product Group being formed
• ELUNA http//www.elu-na.org/

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UH Joins ELUNA

• Staff can join discussion lists
• access web sites
• participate in committees
• serve in leadership roles
• register for annual conference at member rate
  (savings of 150)

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ELUNA 2008
Long Beach, California
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Wil Frost Librarian for Education and
Psychology UH Manoa Library Member, Steering
Committee Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA)