IU awarded grant to improve library storage software

IU was awarded a $2.38 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop software to improve research collections at libraries throughout the world.

The Kuali Open Library Environment project will help create “community source” software that librarians can use to manage their digital resources.

The new library system “breaks away from print-based workflows,” according to the release.

“Libraries now create, lease and share digital materials, but the systems in place for cataloging and tracking these items are based on print collections,” said Carolyn Walters, Ruth Lilly interim dean of University Libraries, in the release. “With this project, we benefit from working together with a community of academic libraries that want to change the way that information is managed in the scholarly environment.”