[LINK] National Library of Australia core partner in open source library suite development - Open Library Environment

[Anthony Hornby]

http://oleproject.org/

It is early days but this looks very interesting. If I can hold off on
a  decision to move to a new system at my university library long
enough (I understand they are aiming for around 2011 for a working
system in production at NLA) I'd love to think we could be part of
something like this :-)

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About the Open Library Environment Project

With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Open Library
Environment (OLE) Project will convene the academic library community
in the design of an Open Library Management System built on Service
Oriented Architecture. The project leaders are a multi-national group
of libraries dedicated to thinking beyond the current model of an
Integrated Library System and to designing a new system that is
flexible, customizable and able to meet the changing and complex needs
of modern, dynamic academic libraries. The end product will be 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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Thought this might interest some.
(I know about Koha, evergreen etc and these are also being looked at here).

Regards Anthony