Dear Colleagues, This is a very good article appeared in Library Journalregarding the status of Open Source ILS system with a write up of much anticipated open source Library system KUALI OLE ( http://www.kuali.org/ole ) Open Source Options | Library Systems Landscape By Matt Enis http://www.thedigitalshift.com/author/menis/ http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2014/04/ils/open-source-options-library-syste... *OPEN SOURCE LIBRARY SYSTEMS- KUALI OLE MAKES AN ENTRANCE * This year will see the much--anticipated entry of the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) into the market. This next-generation system is organized into four separate modules, including acquisitions, cataloging and records maintenance, circulation, and systems integration, a module that will facilitate Kuali OLE's internal integration, as well as integration with other campus enterprise systems, such as financial, identity, and learning systems. Kuali OLE is a "community source" project, which differs from open source in that initially the software was controlled by a coalition of research libraries that agreed to contribute to the project in exchange for input regarding its development in the earliest stages. Those libraries include Indiana University, Bloomington; University of Maryland, College Park; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA; University of Chicago; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Duke University, Durham, NC; North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Bloomsbury Colleges at the University of London; Villanova University, PA; and a consortium of university libraries in Florida. Project funding has included contributions from several of these libraries, along with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the most recent of which was for $882,000 to Indiana University in March. Kuali OLE 1.0 was released in November 2013 under an open source Educational Community License. This release will allow early adopters to review installation requirements and begin mapping data from their current ILS. Version 1.5.0 was released in February and offers all of the necessary functionality for full implementation, although critical bug fixes are still being addressed. The University of Chicago and Lehigh will be the first to go live with the system in its 1.5 iteration and are aiming for summer 2014. Thanks NIKESH NARAYANAN 08130995687 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.