Hi all, You might wish to know that Indiana University has been awarded US$2.38 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop library software. The article does not mention if any or which currently available open source code will be used. Even with US$2.38 can all wheels be reinvented? Who will get the credit at the end of the day? Read more about it here http://kuali.org/node/268 Some sentences from the article are copied below: "Brad Wheeler, Kuali Foundation board chair and vice president for information technology at IU says: "We are grateful for their support of this open, extensible and deeply collaborative work among the OLE investing libraries. The libraries' choice to anchor the project in the Kuali Foundation will ensure its quality, openness and sustainability for years to come."" "IU will lead the Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment) project, a partnership of research libraries dedicated to managing increasingly digital resources and collections. Together, these libraries will develop "community source" software that will be made available to libraries worldwide." "The Kuali OLE collaboration comes at the perfect time," said Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke University. "If libraries are to provide excellent support for scholarship and teaching well into the future, we must develop a new model that reflects the true needs of our organizations and facilitates our work in a constantly changing environment. This partnership capitalizes on the experience, the commitment and the energy of a key group of institutions to build that model for the future of research library operations." "An accomplished team of librarians select, manage and grow Indiana University's research collections, which include more than 6.6 million books and materials in more than 350 languages. The materials support every academic discipline on campus, with an emphasis in the humanities and social sciences. Collections also include journals, maps, films and sound recordings. Users can access more than 692 databases, 60,315 electronic journals, and 816,255 electronic books, as well as locally developed digital content." Best regards, Irma ....... Irma Birchall Calyx Group Pty Limited trading as CALYX information essentials Koha implementations and services M: +61 413 510 717 irma@calyx.net.au www.calyx.net.au www.koha.org