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The Open Library Environment Project has posted a draft of its final report and welcomes comment on
that report before its final version is submitted to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The report can be viewed at:

http://oleproject.org/final-ole-project-report/
 

Indiana University is looking for a Director for Digital Library Services. If you are interested please take a look at our job ad (http://www.educause.edu/Professional+Development/JobOpportunities/DirectorforDigitalLibraryServi/175196) or give me a shout.

OLE Workshop - Indianapolis, IN

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:00am - 3:00pm

The Open Library Environment Project invites you to a 1 day workshop at the IUPUI University Libraries in Indianapolis, IN sponsored by the Indiana University System Libraries, Purdue University Libraries, and the University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for representatives of Indiana and Midwest regional academic and research libraries and related institutions to discuss and provide feedback on the current state of the OLE Project Planning Document. The OLE Project will provide a fully vetted planning document for a community sourced information management system to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation by June 2009 and this workshop intends to solicit feedback from peer libraries in the Indiana region on this plan and to seek institutions who are interested in becoming part of a build out component of the OLE information management environment.

This is a group I am involved with concerning data sharing and research and policy connections on child care and early education. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Mellon Funded Open Library Environment (OLE) Project will host another in its continuing series of educational webcasts on Feb 10, 2009 4:00 pm EST. This program will feature a conversation with the Kuali Foundation and its Executive Director Jennifer Foutty. The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for sustaining and evolving administrative software that meets the needs of all Carnegie Class institutions. Its members are colleges, universities, commercial firms and interested organizations that share a common vision of open, modular, and distributed systems for their software requirements.

For more information please go to:

http://oleproject.org/2009/02/03/ole-project-webinar-conversation-with-the-kuali-foundation/

To register for the Webinar please go to: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/895202368

I will be talking more about the Mellon funded Open Library Environment along with Marshall Breeding at the upcoming CCS Forum in Denver. See announcement below.

OLE representatives will participate in the CCS Forum at the American Library Association MidWinter Meeting entitled FRBR and RDA: a glimpse into the future of cataloging and public displays. The speakers will address how RDA and the FRBRized catalog  will better support user tasks and streamline the cataloging environment. The panel will discuss research on the next generation of cataloging and the experiments with the next-generation ILS/ OPACs.

Panel / Presentations in CCC Korbel Ballroom 3C will include:

Barbara Tillett, Chief of the Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress, Diane Vizine-Goetz, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC, Robert McDonald (Indiana University/OLE Project) and Marshall Breeding (Vanderbilt/OLE Project), Jon Espley, Principal Librarian, VTLS.

The IEEE eScience Meeting in Indianapolis this week is streaming most of the main sessions online.

See - http://live.escience2008.iu.edu/calendar/Calendar.html

Today marks the entry of Amazon's Cloudfront Beta. This new service brings cloud computing to the masses see - http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront

I am currently in a great session on virtualized server environments presented by a panel from Baylor University. If you are looking for a session please come by W230CD in OCCC.

Yesterday the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) announced the HathiTrust project. This project is a large-scale shared digital preservation program that includes all of the CIC Libraries as well as the libraries of the University of California System (California Digital Library) and has currently two replicated nodes at Indiana University and at the University of Michigan. The press release for the HathiTrust can be found at http://www.hathitrust.org/press. Further press on the trust program can be found in the Chronicle at http://chronicle.com/free/2008/10/5061n.htm

Components of the HathiTrust will be discussed at the upcoming Educause Annual Conference in Orlando. For more on that session please see -

http://net.educause.edu/E08/Program/14627?PRODUCT_CODE=E08/SESS004