Library Cataloging
Open Library Environment Project Report
News from the Open Library Environment Project.
The Open Library Environment (OLE) Project has posted a draft of its final report. We are excited to offer this report publicly to the community and welcomes comment. As a community-source project, your input is vital to the future and success of the OLE Project. You can access the report at this address:
http://oleproject.org/final-ole-project-report/
About the Open Library Environment Project:
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a multinational group of libraries is developing the design for an Open Library Environment (OLE), an alternative to the current model of an Integrated Library System. The goal is to produce 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.
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Niso's New Bibliographic Exchange Environment
If you have ever complained about Z39.50, SRU/SRW, library APIs, OAI-PMH or other tools for bibliographic information exchange here is your chance to influence the future development of our tools. Last fall, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation generously...
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Preliminary Report On User Research For Extensible Catalog
The eXtensible Catalog project takes a look at what "they" want.The eXtensible Catalog project at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries is pleased to release the first report on the user research that we conducted in support of XC software...
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Extensible Catalog & Koha
News from LibLime about Koha and the eXtensible Catalog.LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries and the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project-- an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project currently underway at the University of Rochester's...
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Automatic Metadata Generation Applications
The Library of Congress announces publications of the final report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications) project. Greenberg, J., Spurgin, K., and Crystal, A. (2005). Final Report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications)...
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Open Source Ils
As part of a report that I am developing on library automation systems, I am interested in knowing more about the current state of Koha and other Open Source projects. I need to document the number of libraries that use an Open Source ILS in their production...
Library Cataloging