Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 10:22:28 +0530 From: DINESH SIDDAIAH Dear Friends, The National Library of Australia (http://www.nla.gov.au) has been doing a great deal of work toward the design and development of a library automation infrastructure following the service oriented architecture. These efforts show great promise in the creation of a number of key library automation components available as open source software.In recent days, NLA has launched a wiki called Library Labs with lots of information about their work. With regards, Dinesh K S