[Koha-devel] The OLE Project news: Funding goes to (closed) Kuali Foundation: open source administrative software for higher education, by higher education

[Irma Birchall]

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 
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Koha implementations and services
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