Kuali OLE seeks to develop the first system designed by and for academic and research libraries for managing and delivering intellectual information.

A community of partners will deliver an enterprise-ready, community source software package to manage and provide access not only to items in their collections but also to licensed and local digital content. Kuali OLE (pronounced oh-LAY, for Open Library Environment) features a governance model in which the entire library community can collaborate to own the resulting intellectual property.

Overview

·         Built, owned, governed by the academic and research library community

·         Supports the wide range of resources and formats of scholarly information

·         Interoperates & integrates with other enterprise and network-based systems

·         Supports federation across projects, partners, consortia, and institutions

·         Provides workflow design & management capabilities

·         Provides information management capabilities to non-library efforts

 
Project Funding
The Kuali OLE Project is made possible by generous contributions of the Kuali OLE Founding Partners. A $2.38 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, announced in January 2010, supports the initial two-year development cycle of the Kuali OLE Project (2010-2012).

Kuali OLE also intends to attract a thriving marketplace of independent vendors to deliver services and support to its active community.