Dear EWGLA Members, as announced during the last EWGLA Meeting, we are pleased to inform you about the first official release of our software library “*LoLoLA*” – *L*ibrary *o*f *Lo*cation and *L*ayout *A*lgorithms. The library and all related information can be downloaded from www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~lolola. The software is released under the /GNU General Public License /and, therefore, the source code is available for downloading and modifying. Instructions on how to install the library and which algorithms are available can be found in the documentation. Moreover, an executable for the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Windows is provided. If you have any questions or have a feedback/bug report, feel free to write an email to lolola@mathematik.uni-kl.de. Note, that this is a Beta-release. We are thankful for every comment and suggestion for improvement. If you want to be informed about updates of LoLoLA do not forget to check "Receive notifications for new releases" on the download page. Best regards, Horst W. Hamacher, Philipp Heßler, Andrea Maier University of Kaiserslautern, Germany and Aleksandra Gross (now Cambridge, Great-Britain) -- ****************************************************** Prof. Dr. Horst W. Hamacher Chair of Management and Educational Mathematics Department of Mathematics University of Kaiserslautern 67653 Kaiserslautern GERMANY Tel: (Germany) (0)631 205 2267 homepage: http://optimierung.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~hamacher