Beth Picknally Camden University of Pennsylvania ALA Heads of Cataloging June 2015 Kuali OLE: Making the Decision for Community-Source Software
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 Governance
OLE Roadmap 1.6 (May 2015) FY rollover; Internationalization; SIP2 2.0 (Q3 2015) ERM; GOKb integration 3.0 (Q1 2016) Circ upgrades (bills, requests); authorities; MARC holdings; license editor; account query
Case study – SOAS Bloomsbury group of London libraries joined OLE In 2012 BLMS Unified Specification Critical factors Ethos Collaboration Vision for Functionality Build, Commission or Buy? SOAS – 2015 implementation
Case Study - Penn OLE design phase OLE build phase 2014 review of functionality 2015 update “must have” list Planning for 2016 Implementation
Rethinking the RFP Software functionality Software provider Software stack Exit strategy Dollars and sense
You already own the software How would your library make this kind of decision?