How does OLE differ from other recent or open source ILS projects?
The OLE Project is a unique approach aimed at the need for academic and research libraries to move beyond the stand-alone ILS model without sacrificing core functionality. Starting with extensive library community consultation and design, the OLE Project aims to support libraries in transforming their workflows so they can manage changing services and resource formats – not just to replicate a traditional ILS. OLE will leverage and integrate connections between the enterprise library and it’s consortia while recognizing the technical infrastructure of the library’s parent organization is a key constituent. Connections to external library networks will be natural and fully functional, but OLE libraries will differ in their desire to increase the ROI of the parent organization’s embedded systems — identity management, financial accounting, etc. Since OLE will integrate first with the parent enterprise infrstructure, the researcher will be the central focus of library services designed to
