With the website just launched, Duke has announced its Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded initiative called the Open Library Environment. With the end goal of revamping the traditional notion of an Integrated Library System(ILS), the team is”designing a new system that is flexible, customizable and able to meet the changing and complex needs of modern, dynamic academic libraries. The end product will be a design document to inform open source library system development efforts, to guide future library system implementations, and to influence current Integrated Library System vendor products.”
