diff --git a/solr/example/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml b/solr/example/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml
index 2616a49165f..4c8e1a51018 100755
--- a/solr/example/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml
+++ b/solr/example/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
        classpath, this is useful for including all jars in a directory.
     -->
   <lib dir="../../contrib/extraction/lib" />
+  <lib dir="../../contrib/velocity/src/main/solr/lib" />
   <!-- When a regex is specified in addition to a directory, only the files in that
        directory which completely match the regex (anchored on both ends)
        will be included.
@@ -1033,6 +1034,8 @@
     <queryResponseWriter name="custom" class="com.example.MyResponseWriter"/>
   -->
 
+  <queryResponseWriter name="velocity" class="solr.VelocityResponseWriter"/>
+
   <!-- XSLT response writer transforms the XML output by any xslt file found
        in Solr's conf/xslt directory.  Changes to xslt files are checked for
        every xsltCacheLifetimeSeconds.  
diff --git a/solr/example/solr/conf/velocity/VM_global_library.vm b/solr/example/solr/conf/velocity/VM_global_library.vm
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..aff58380b3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/example/solr/conf/velocity/VM_global_library.vm
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#macro(nl2ul $named_list)
+  <ul>
+  #foreach($kv in $named_list)
+    <li>$kv.key ($kv.value)
+      #nl2ul($kv.value)
+    </li>
+  #end
+  </ul>
+#end
+
+#macro(param $key)$request.params.get($key)#end