The annual meeting of the main user groups for the library software we uses at RHUL – Aleph, SFX and MetaLib. This year it is a bit special because it is at the British Library in London, and I’ve been helping organise it. I have to admit that I feel a bit of a fraud, as other people have done all the hard work, but it is nice to see it all coming together.

Anyway, I’m very much looking forward to the meeting – both in terms of meeting other users (always interesting and fun) and also because some of the presentations promise to be very interesting – some stuff on web services and library systems, and a presentation on the new Verde product from Ex Libris, which is an electronic resource management system (and I contributed to discussions on the design and functionality as part of a user focus group)

It is also a chance to catchup with friends made through similar meetings over the last 5 years since we started using the Aleph library management system at RHUL