Mellon foundation awards $2.3 million for OLE development

A $2.38 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Indiana University will be used to develop software created specifically for the management of print and electronic collections for academic and research libraries around the world.
IU will lead the Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment) project, a partnership of research libraries dedicated to managing increasingly [...]

OLE Project Completed – Report Available

The OLE Project is now completed. A copy of the final report has bee posted and is available for download here. (See Final Report in the left hand menu.) The final report includes information about the next phase of the project and plans for developing the OLE framework. The Kuali-OLE website will provide ongoing updates.

OLE Project Final Report Available for Comment

The OLE Project has posted a draft of its final report and welcomes comment on that report.

OLE Project Meeting Notes from Kansas, March 15-20, 2009

The University of Kansas Libraries hosted the OLE Project group meeting that took place  March 15 – 20, 2009. During that meeting, the group completed a number of significant tasks, described below. All those interested in the OLE Project are encouraged to provide feedback on the group’s work, by joining in the webcast on [...]

Notes from Georgia Tech / Atlanta Workshop posted

The notes and photos from the regional design workshop held at Georgia Tech on Feb. 12 – 13, 2009 are now posted:

Notes
Photos

OLE Project meeting 4 at Lehigh – Notes from Day 3

Notes from our third day of the OLE Project Meeting at Lehigh University on Jan. 22, 2009 are below. Notes from the others days are in separate posts, in the category “Project Information.”

1. February Web Conference / Process Planning
Based on results of analyzing a single area, we will create a workplan for how [...]

OLE Project meeting 4 at Lehigh – Notes from day 2

Notes from the second day of our project meeting, Jan. 21, 2009 are below. Notes from the others days are in separate posts, in the category “Project Information.”
1. Workshop feedback
People in our workshops said:

They want to know how the process modeling they did will be used in the OLE [...]

OLE Project meeting 4 at Lehigh – Notes from day 1

The OLE Project group met at Lehigh University from Jan. 20 – 22, 2009.
We met in the lovely Lehigh University Linderman Library.

Additional photos are on our Flickr site.
Notes from the first day, Jan. 20, 2009, are below. Notes from the others days are in separate posts, in the category “Project Information.”

1. Intro to [...]

Notes from Durham regional design workshop now posted

Notes, photos and other resources from the library workflow design workshop held Dec. 15-16 at Duke University are now online.
http://oleproject.org/workshops/regional-design-workshop-notes-duke-university-durham-nc/
We welcome your comments on the ideas discussed at this workshop.

Notes from Regional Design Workshop at Chicago available

Detailed meeting information, notes and photos from the library workflow modeling workshop held at Chicago on Dec. 11, 2008 are now available at:
http://oleproject.org/workshops/regional-design-workshop-notes-chicago-university/
We welcome your comments about the ideas discussed in this workshop.