Led by Duke University, the OLE Project intends to build a design document for an open source library management system which will be based on the software design philosophy of service oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is becoming a dominant trend in technology as early adopters have shown that it provides the benefit of an agile system, one that is flexible in response to information demands. Lehigh’s Doreen Herold and Tim McGeary will present the status of the OLE Project, its process, its goals, and how other PALINET members can participate.

1. Come to the Fiesta! Join the OLE Project Tim McGeary Doreen Herold Lehigh University

3. Brief review of the ILS environment • ILS does not fit modern scholarly process • Workflows adapted to manage collections are based on outdated assumptions • Dissatisfaction among libraries with proprietary ILS • Our collections are changing more rapidly than our systems Data Mass digitization • Early efforts in the OS model have a different primary constituency

4. Brief review of the ILS environment By Marshall Breeding, Library Technology Guides http://www.librarytechnology.org/ Used with permission

5. What is the OLE Project? With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Open Library Environment (OLE) Project will convene the academic library community in the design of an Open Library Management System built on Service Oriented Architecture . The project leaders are a multi-national group of libraries dedicated to thinking beyond the current model of an Integrated Library System and to designing a new system that is flexible, customizable and able to meet the changing and complex needs of modern, dynamic academic libraries. The end product will be a design document to inform open source library system development efforts, to guide future library system implementations, and to influence current Integrated Library System vendor products. from http://oleproject.org/

7. Current Work Business Process Modeling External Project Connections

9. External Project Connections We wish to identify other projects/applications for which we plan to make specific community connections and/or to differentiate the OLE Project from other projects. While many of the projects/applications listed next are of interest to the OLE Project, this is not an exhaustive list of related projects/applications; these applications and projects are listed as examples.

21. Thank you! Questions and conversation