I think what Alex Johannesen just said in the "Library Technologies and
Library School (was Commercial Vendors and Open Source Software)" is a
great segue to inviting you all to join our public webcast for the Open
Library Environment (OLE) Project.
OLE Project participants will host a webcast to share information about
the project and invite comments and questions. The webcast will be held
Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 3pm-5pm EST. This webcast is free or charge
and open to anyone. Please register in advance at:
http://survey.oit.duke.edu/ViewsFlash/servlet/viewsflash?cmd=showform&pollid=CIT!OLEWebcast
A more detailed agenda and information about logging into the webcast
will be posted within the next week.[1]
As Alex said:
> Libraries are probably best to change and compromise a little. Just
> because you like to think in terms of stacks doesn't mean you must
> have software that are written for stacks; shelves will probably do.
> Just because you call your main users patrons doesn't mean that a
> customer wouldn't do. And so on. For every problem in the ILS you will
> find an outside alternative. This is a problem of not wanting to
> change more than actually solving the problem.
This is very much the type of thinking and discussions we had in North
Carolina a couple weeks ago to kick off this design project. We
discussed what is in and out of scope for this project, started training
on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and began writing vision and
scope documents to share with you all and the rest of the library
community to comment on.
I hope that you can join us in this webcast and continue to participate
over the next year as we move forward on design the Open Library
Environment.
Cheers,
Tim
[1]http://oleproject.org/2008/09/18/join-us-for-ole-project-update-via-webcast/
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Lehigh University
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Received on Wed Sep 24 2008 - 13:14:32 EDT