Kuali OLE:The Bloomsbury LMSAndrew PreaterAssociate Director, Information Systems and Services

Senate House Libraries, University of London

London E-resources Group, 3 July 2013

Kuali OLEole.kuali.org

OLE!

Library services platform

OLE!

A campus-wide, enterprise system

OLE!

By and for academic libraries

OLE!

Open Source* software* - Educational Community License 2.0, a Free Software license compatible with GNU GPL 3.0: http://bit.ly/14oMvvu

Problem:Early adopter arguments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diffusion_of_ideas.svg

It exists!OLE 0.8 released June 2013

What we are doing…

Collaborative specSummer 2012

Governance, legal, & financialsSpring 2013

Discovery projectSpring & summer 2013

VuFind as an OSS optioneg. vufind.lib.bbk.ac.uk

Metadata optimizationSpring 2013 onwards

Implementation of OLE DescribeGoal for October 2013

Success factors

Technology

“LMS appreciation”

andrew.preater@london.ac.uk

www.blms.ac.uk

ole.kuali.org

Questions