[Asis-l] ALA Annual Program: Post-Integrated Library Systems? - The Open Library Environment(OLE)and the Unified Resource Management(URM)Projects.

[Ray Schwartz]

Post-Integrated Library Systems? - The Open Library 
Environment(OLE)and the Unified Resource Management(URM)Projects.'
ALA Annual LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group Meeting

Monday, July 13, 2009 (3:30-5:30pm) in Chicago, IL
Palmer House - Chicago Room

The session presents two projects that are on the cutting-edge of 
"redefining" the ILS.

The Open Library Environment (OLE) Project
With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a multinational 
group of libraries is developing the design for an Open Library 
Environment (OLE), an alternative to the current model of an 
Integrated Library System. The goal is to produce 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.

Carlen Ruschoff, Director of Information Technology & Technical 
Services, University of Maryland, College Park, and Peter Murray, 
Assistant Director, New Service Development OhioLINK: the Ohio 
Library and Information Network.

Ex Libris' Unified Resource Management (URM) Project


Oren Beit-Arie and Susan M. Stearns discuss the Unified Resource 
Management [URM], Ex Libris' next-generation framework for library 
management services.  As today's libraries face a time of major 
change, a new approach to library services is needed.  Ex Libris is 
responding to this need with a completely new design for next gen 
services.  We will provide an overview of URM and touch on some of 
the ways that new tools for collaboration and community in 
combination with streamlined workflows can facilitate the evolution 
of traditional technical services to better support learning and research.

Oren Beit-Arie, the Chief Strategy Officer of Ex Libris, and Susan M. 
Stearns, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships of Ex Libris.

/Ray Schwartz, Chair-Elect, LITA Next Generation Catalog Interest Group  
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