I had the opportunity to participate in an OLE (Open Library
Environment) workshop the other day in Chicago, and in a sentence, it
was an opportunity to describe and flowchart back-end library
processes in an effort to help design an integrated library system.
I'm glad I had the opportunity to attend. It gave me a chance to get a
better understanding of what OLE is all about, and I saw it as a
professional development session where I learned more about where
things are going. The day's events were well-structured, well-
organized, and manageable given the time restraints. I only regret
there was too little "blue skying" by attendees. Much of the time was
spent outlining how our work is done now. I hope any future
implementation explores new ways of doing things in order to take
better advantage of the changing environment as opposed to simply
automating existing processes.
For more details, see:
http://infomotions.com/blog/2008/12/a-day-with-ole/
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Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame
Received on Sat Dec 13 2008 - 08:46:35 EST