LITA BlogGetting Started with Drupal (a.k.a. Drupal4LITA Bootcamp)
Preconference, June 27th, 2008
Anaheim Public Library
Cary Gordon of the Cherry Hill Company, a vendor specializing in support of open source software, gave an extremely detailed introduction to Drupal 6.2, the latest version of the open source content management system. The attendees came from a variety of library types, including [...]
Building and Support Koha, an open-source ILS
Saturday June 28th, 2008, 10:30-12:00
Hyatt Regency Orange County
John Houser, Senior Technology Consultant for PALINET, and Johsua Ferraro, CEO of Liblime, set out to answer common questions about open-source ILS systems with a focus on Liblime’s support for Koha. The format was an interview, and the resulting questions and answers [...]
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Hyatt Regency Orange County
Walt Scacchi of UC-Irvine stepped in as a last-minute replacement speaker for Karen Sandler of the Software Freedom Law Center and gave a talk entitled “Research Results for Free/Open Source Software Development: Best Practices for Libraries? (and some legal issues too)” based on his empirical research on open-source project [...]
LITA Open Source Systems IG business meeting
Midwinter, 2008
January 14th
Marriott Philadelphia
Present were representatives of the National Archives of Canada, Liblime, Rowan University, Index Data, the Texas State Library, City College of San Francisco, Georgetown’s Law Library, Texas Wesleyan, the Massachussetts Trial Court Law Library, Florida State University, Wayne State University, Minnesota’s CLIC consortium, PALINET, Eastern Michigan [...]
I have created a public Google Calendar of LITA events at Annual. It is based on the scheduling info Aaron posted a link to last week. This version renders a little more clearly on my phone, but you might like to import it or subscribe to it in a variety of ways.
Here is the HTML [...]
Open Source Systems Interest Group meeting
Sunday, January 21, 2007, 4-6pm
The group reviewed the list of programs planned for Annual in DC
Evergreen, the Georgia PINES consortium’s open ILS program
Automating metadata creation with open source software. Patrick Yott from Brown.
The next-generation public library website with Drupal. John Blyberg from the Ann Arbor District Library.
Sakai collaboration and learning [...]
You should really listen to the podcasts. There are things I won’t be able to do in words. Like give you the experience of Karen Schneider singing her recruiting song. Or summarize Clifford Lynch (can anyone do that?).
So, for the time-pressed, here is a summary of the Top Tech Trends discussion at ALA Midwinter, in [...]
Ipsen
Q: What kinds of libraries do audience members work at?
(About half and half public and academic libraries, with a few school and special)
Q to panel: How do you make your money? The service? The device?
Potash: We’re a solutions provider. Libraries came to us and said this is what we want–as much popular stuff as possible. [...]
Audiobook 3.0: the converging of the mobile lifestyle media platform
Monday June 26 8-noon
Speakers:
Christopher Celeste, CEO PlayAway
Steve Potash, CEO Overdrive
Gillian Harrison, OCLC/NetLibrary
Intro by Eric Ipsen, ETIG (Emerging Technology Interest Group) chair
(about 50 people at start, growing to capacity as the session went on)
Background: Ebook 3.0 was the former title of this session. Sony was very interested [...]
Open Source Programs for the Reference Librarian: When Your Budget is More Limited Than Your Vision
LITA Open Source Systems Interest Group
Sunday June 25 8:30-10
Speakers (in order):
Ranti Junus, Michigan State
Teria Curry, Johns Hopkins
Kirsten Allen, American University
Mary Evangeline, Univ. of Arizona
George Harmon, Florida State
(note: editorial parentheticals are by the scribe. Otherwise this is a loose paraphrase)
(About 100 [...]