Kuali Open Library Environment

Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment) empowers libraries to leverage the expertise within the library community to find solutions for common needs. The processes for purchasing, tracking, and managing collections in a digital environment are far different from the print-based workflows now underpinning many library management systems. Kuali OLE offers a new and better alternative.

Motivated by the understanding that only by working together can libraries realize their potential, a partnership of top research libraries is now making Kuali OLE a reality. Together they are defining the next-generation library management system and will make it freely available as community-source software, which libraries can adapt for local implementation and enhance for the common good.

More than 300 libraries, educational institutions, professional organizations, and businesses have already helped identify the project scope. Forward-thinking partner libraries have invested in the project and are leading its development. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides generous support for the development project, having previously funded the initial planning grant.
Kuali OLE intends to deliver nothing less than an enterprise-ready, community source software package for academic and research libraries and a governance model in which the entire library community can collaborate to own and govern the resulting intellectual property.

Please send comments about this site or requests for new pages to Nora Roggeveen-Sams of the OLE Core Team.

Recent Updates to the OLE Wiki

Recent updates

• 3.0.19

  Jul 12, 2021 • contributed by Suresh Subramanian
• 3.0 Release

  May 18, 2020 • contributed by Holly Mistlebauer
• 3.0.18

  May 13, 2020 • contributed by Suresh Subramanian
• 3.0.17

  Aug 08, 2019 • contributed by Suresh Subramanian
• 3.0.16

  Mar 14, 2019 • contributed by Suresh Subramanian
• 3.0.15

  Dec 14, 2018 • contributed by Suresh Subramanian
• 3.0.14

  Sept 06, 2018 • contributed by Suresh Subramanian
• 3.0.13

  Jun 28, 2018 • contributed by Suresh Subramanian
• 3.0.12

  Apr 20, 2018 • contributed by Suresh Subramanian
• 3.0.11

  Feb 26, 2018 • contributed by Suresh Subramanian
• GOKb Data Management Wiki

  Dec 20, 2017 • contributed by Daniel Rupp
• 3.0.10

  Dec 06, 2017 • contributed by Suresh Subramanian
• OLE

  Nov 22, 2017 • attached by Michael Winkler
• 3.0.9

  Oct 26, 2017 • contributed by Suresh Subramanian
• 3.0.8

  Sept 22, 2017 • contributed by Suresh Subramanian

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