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 Discussion on Library 2.0 Gang

Tim McGeary, Team Leader for Library Systems at Lehigh University, spoke on the OLE Project as the featured guest on the “Library 2.0 Gang” March 2009 Podcast, a monthly round-table podcast produced by the software applications company Talis.

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 [...]

OLE Workshop – Indianapolis, IN

[ April 22, 2009; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:00am – 3:00pm

The Open Library Environment Project invites you to a 1 day workshop at the IUPUI University Libraries in Indianapolis, IN sponsored by the Indiana University System Libraries, Purdue University Libraries, and the University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for [...]

OLE Reference Model Available for Comment

Over the past several months, the OLE project has gathered input from libraries on their process workflows.  Based on the output of these workshops and the results of our last project meeting, the project team has created an early version of a reference model for our design.
The reference model is the working structure of the [...]

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 the Lehigh University regional design workshop now posted

Meeting information, notes and photos from the library workflow design workshop held Dec. 15-16, 2008 at Lehigh University are now online.
http://oleproject.org/workshops/regional-design-workshop-notes-lehigh-university/
We welcome your comments on the ideas discussed at this workshop.

OLE Meeting Four Agenda

The OLE Meeting Four agenda has been posted at http://oleproject.org/2009/01/15/ole-project-meeting-four/