Community-Source Development and Technical Services Librarians

Beth Picknally Camden

University of Pennsylvania

ALA June 2015

Open Source/Community Source

• Open-source software is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

• Community Source builds on the practices of open source communities. A distinctive characteristic of community source as opposed to plain open source is that the community includes some organizations or institutions that are committing their resources, in the form of human resources or other financial elements.

Projects

Roles for Technical Services Librarians

• Scoping• Analysis• Specifications• Testing

• Governance• Communications• Training• Implementation

• A community within a community—Part of the Kuali Foundation

• Designed for libraries by librarians!• KOLE is building to meet the following requirements:

• Flexibility in design• Community ownership with an open source license and strong

vendor support• Modular Service-Oriented Architecture• Enterprise-level integration

OLE Partners and Implementations

OLE Roadmap

• 1.6 (May 2015)• FY rollover; Internationalization; SIP2

• 2.0 (Q3 2015)• ERM; GOKb integration

• 3.0 (Q1 2016)• Circulation upgrades; authorities; etc. https://www.kuali.org/ole/roadmap

OLE Governance & Roles

My OLE Story

• Penn partnership • design phase (2008-09)• build phase (2010- )

• Functional Council • voting member; vice chair

• Communications team• Chair

• Planning Penn’s implementation