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 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 [...]

OLE Meeting Four Agenda

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

OLE Project Webcast – Conversation with Evergreen. Dec. 9, 2008, 5pm EST, US

[ December 9, 2008; 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] John Little will host a webcast discussion with the principle developers and drivers of the Evergreen Project. The Webcast will be open to the first 100 participants, recorded for playback, and made available on the Oleproject.org site. To Register for the Webcast: Register Now
Participants include:

John Little, ILS Support Section Head, Duke University

Julie Walker, Deputy State [...]

Oct. 1, 2008 Webcast Recording Available

Thank you to all who participated in today’s webcast. If you were unable to attend or would like to review the meeting, you can access the presentation and audio.

1. The visual part of today’s meeting – the slides and chat – are available via an Adobe Connect webpage at: https://admin.na3.acrobat.com/_a776002596/p79435648/

2. To access the audio [...]

OLE Project Scope Document posted

A first draft of a Project Scope document has been posted in the Project Overview section of this website. This scope document is one of the topics that will be discussed with the library community during the Oct. 1, 2008 webcast.