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This project has received funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enable the library community to deliberate together and deliver a design for the next generation of library automation services. In order to provide evidence to Mellon of our ability to fulfill this task, Duke University pre-convened a leadership group of Core and Advisory Partner institutions to demonstrate that the project had sufficient initial diversity of input (large and small, public and private, US and other-national), and to form a nucleus for further collaboration. These project partners are responsible to each other and to Mellon for ensuring that the project activities are carried out using a process that is open, participatory, and effective. Project partners also are responsible for determining whether it will be possible to convene a second group of institutions, possibly including some members of the design group, to pursue a development project (also seeking Mellon support) that would make available to libraries a working, production version of the design produced. The process for carrying out the project and the design delivered are intended to be owned and governed by the library community as a whole.
The project partners who developed the project proposal and planned the initial activities are:
Columbia University
Duke University
Lehigh University
Library and Archives Canada
National Library of Australia
Orbis Cascade Alliance
Rutgers University
University of Chicago
University of Florida
University of Kansas
University of Maryland
University of Pennsylvania
Vanderbilt University
Whittier College
In addition to this original group, the following libraries or organizations are also participating in the OLE Project.
- OhioLINK plans to host a design workshop in their consortium and is sharing information from their current planning activities with the OLE Project. OhioLink is a consortium of 89 Ohio college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio. Contact: Peter Murray, Assistant Director, New Service Development for OhioLink (peter@ohiolink.edu).
- Representatives from Indiana University are drawing on their experience with business process modeling from experience with the Kuali project. They are assisting the University of Chicago with their regional design workshop and have plans for an Indiana-based workshop that would pull in information for the design from the Indiana University and Purdue University Regional Consortia. Contact: Robert McDonald, Associate Dean for Library Technologies at Indiana University (rhmcdona@indiana.edu).
See the Get Involved section of this website for ways you can participate in project activities.
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This project appears to be reinventing the wheel. You could save time and money by taking a look at:
http://www.kiikm.org/NewGenLib.html
This is a fully functional, open source system developed with support from another Foundation in India, and in wide use there and elsewhere. It meets all international standards.
Professor Ian M. Johnson
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Aberdeen Business School
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[...] 目前 OLE Project 成員主要來自美加及澳洲，見名單。 [...]
Thanks for the comments about existing Open Source ILS products for libraries. Current open source projects do address aspects of the limitations in commercial ILS systems, and thus offer an excellent starting point. At the same time, we think there is more work to be done in rethinking completely the library management systems needed by academic libraries. We are optimistic that the open source library projects now in progress will inform our work, and possibly lead to some convergence or joint activities in the future. Therefore, these posts are helpful for us and we hope and expect our work will contribute back to other projects as well. We would expect any software development project which comes after our planning project to leverage software developed by other community-source projects.
I thank Ian Johnson for his very positive comments on NewGenLib. However, we are very conscious that we cannot remain complacent at all. The new developments in SOA and availability of APIs from ILS and other vendors and search engines and the bolt-on OPACs (like AquaBrowser) have opened a whole new way of looking at ILS and I am sure the Oleprojcet is the place to be in seeing how things shape. Haravu
[...] a webcast today updating people on the Open Library Environment project, a joint effort between a ton of amazing libraries to build a modern, open source library system. While I wish them the best of luck, I have to say [...]
The strengths of the newgenlib cannot be denied on the perspective of the library standards. But I have my own reservations to accept Newgenlib a complete Open Source Solution.
The reasons are:
1. The “Newgenlib Desktop Application”, which is required to generate the catalogue and other library activity related reports is not available.
2. I doubt if the *.ear file available could be modified to suit the library requirements. If the answer is “no” then obv. the software could be classed only as Free Library Automation Software.