BPM Project meetings

Regional Design Workshop – Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Monday, December 15 and Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Scholarly Communication Center
Archibald S. Alexander Library
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1163
9:00am to 4:00pm
Lunch on your own
Registration is required by Dec. 1: http://tinyurl.com/6jdcs5

The Open Library Environment (OLE, pronounced oh-lay) Project invites you to participate in one of the two-day Regional Design Workshops at Rutgers University. Although Rutgers is providing the facilities, these workshops will be hosted by members of the OLE team from the nearby area – Columbia University, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania. The purpose of the workshops is to provide a forum for representatives of local research libraries and other academic institutions to discuss our work surrounding the current Integrated Library Systems (ILS) and ideas on what this type of core system should incorporate.

Participation is open to any members of the academic library community who work 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 and academic libraries.

Due to space limitations, registration is limited to 60 participants for each two-day workshop. If more than 60 apply to participate for each workshop, we will select a diverse representation of participants from a cross section of functional areas and institutions of varying size and mission.

Registration will close on Monday, December 1 and participants will be notified of their acceptance by Wednesday, December 3. There is no cost for attendance to this workshop other than your travel related expenses.

Hotels: For those that are staying overnight here’s a link to hotels in the New Brunswick area
http://www.campustravel.com/university/rutgers/hotelnewbrunswick2.html

In addition, here’s a list of hotels showing the generic Rutgers conference rate. http://www.rutravel.rutgers.edu/hotelrates2008.html

Transportation:

a. Train - New Brunswick has a train station and is one of the regular stops on the New Jersey Transit Northeast Corridor Line. For those taking the Northeast Corridor Line of New Jersey Transit here’s a link to the New Jersey Transit home page to help you plan your trip:http://www.njtransit.com/hp/hp_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=HomePageTo

The latest Northeast Corridor train schedule can be found at:
http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/r0070.pdf

b. Drive – If you are driving a car, you’ll need a Rutgers temporary parking pass for the parking deck on College Avenue. The entrance to the parking deck is located next to Alexander Library at the corner of College Avenue and Senior Street. We will attach a print-your-own parking pass to the email message that confirms your registration. You’ll need to print and place the parking pass on your dashboard when parked in the College Avenue Parking Deck (CAD).  Here’s a link to the location of the parking deck on Senior Street.http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=college+ave+and+senior+street,+new+brunswick,nj&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=86.22889,72.070313&ie=UTF8&g=college+ave+and+senior+street,+new+brunswick,nj&z=17&iwloc=addr

Dining: If you are staying overnight in the New Brunswick area, here’s a link to local dining options:http://www.newbrunswick.com/content.php?content=ests&type=dnl&cat=4

Rutgers University Visitor Information: Visitors to Rutgers University may find this link helpful:http://nbweb.rutgers.edu/visitors.shtml

Contact: Christopher Sterback, Head, Rutgers OLE Workflow Design Team, Rutgers University, sterback@rci.rutgers.edu; John Brennan, Digital Projects Coordinator, Rutgers University, brennanj@rci.rutgers.edu; Judy Gardner, Head, University Libraries Access and Interlibrary Services, Rutgers University, jgardner@rci.rutgers.edu