The Open Library Environment (OLE, pronounced oh-lay) Project invites
you to apply to participate in a two day Regional Design Workshop. The
purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for representatives of
local research libraries and related institutions to discuss our work
surrounding the current Integrated Library System and ideas on what this
type of core system should incorporate. Workshops are being held in a
variety of locations in the US over the next 2 months. For more
information and to find a location near you, go to:
http://oleproject.org/workshops.
Participation is open to any member of the research library community
who works with the Integrated Library System either on a day to day
basis or from a higher level. OLE will be developed as an open source
library environment that meets the needs of research libraries. While
care will be taken to design an open and flexible system that is useful
for other types of libraries, such as public libraries, the focus of the
project in this early stage is on research libraries.
The OLE project, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
seeks to convene the academic library community in the design of an Open
Library Management System built using the principles of Service Oriented
Architecture. The project partners consist of leaders from academic
libraries in the United States, Canada, and Australia dedicated to
thinking beyond the current model of an Integrated Library System. We
seek to design a new system that is flexible, customizable and able to
meet the changing and complex needs of modern, dynamic academic
libraries. The end product will be a design document to inform open
source library system development efforts, to guide future library
system implementations, and to influence current Integrated Library
System vendor products.
More information on the OLE Project can be found at http://oleproject.org.
(apologies for the cross posting.)
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Tim McGeary
Senior Systems Specialist
Lehigh University
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