The Open Library Environment (OLE, pronounced oh-lay) Project invites 
you to apply to participate in a two day Regional Design Workshop. The 
purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for representatives of 
local research libraries and related institutions to discuss our work 
surrounding the current Integrated Library System and ideas on what this 
type of core system should incorporate.  Workshops are being held in a 
variety of locations in the US over the next 2 months. For more 
information and to find a location near you, go to:
http://oleproject.org/workshops.

Participation is open to any member of the research library community 
who works with the Integrated Library System either on a day to day 
basis or from a higher level. OLE will be developed as an open source 
library environment that meets the needs of research libraries. While 
care will be taken to design an open and flexible system that is useful 
for other types of libraries, such as public libraries, the focus of the 
project in this early stage is on research libraries.

The OLE project, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 
seeks to convene the academic library community in the design of an Open 
Library Management System built using the principles of Service Oriented 
Architecture.  The project partners consist of leaders from academic 
libraries in the United States, Canada, and Australia dedicated to 
thinking beyond the current model of an Integrated Library System.  We 
seek to design 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.

More information on the OLE Project can be found at http://oleproject.org.

(apologies for the cross posting.)

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Tim McGeary
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Lehigh University
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