ELUNA | Alma & Primo Enhancement Process

CERV 2025 Timeline for Alma/Primo VE

• Enhancement submissions: now - 19 January
• Working group review and system testing: 19 January - 7 March
• First round vote: 10 March - 8 April (11:59 pm GMT)
• Working group review, Ex Libris complexity pointing, and system testing: 11 April - 13 June
• Second round vote: 17 June - 1 July (11:59 pm GMT)

ELUNA is a not-for-profit educational group for users of enterprise library software products licensed by Ex Libris, a ProQuest Company. ELUNA focuses on the systems that manage discovery, access, and collection management functions within libraries. It is the international user community for Ex Libris customers in the Americas. ELUNA and its sister organization IGeLU have a contractual agreement with Ex Libris for the enhancement of defined Ex Libris products.

Source: https://el-una.org/about/

For 2024, the number of eligible ELUNA CERV (formerly NERS) voting California Community Colleges is 110 colleges - the California Community Colleges have more power in swaying the ELUNA CERV vote!

The Council of Chief Librarians (CCL) has paid the 2024 membership for all CCL members.

• Membership is by college.
• Please contact CCL directly if you have any questions regarding invoicing.

ELUNA Membership Benefits 

• Reduced registration fee at ELUNA Annual Meeting

• Access to ELUNA document repository

• Opportunities for professional development

• Regional User Groups

• Submit and vote on enhancement requests through CERV (formerly NERS)