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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Koha & SOPAC

July 9th, 2009

A few months ago, I was excited to read that the amazing developers at Biblibre were working on integrating Koha into John Blyberg’s SOPAC. Well, Biblibre has announced a demo of their SOPAC/Koha installation on their blog. The post was in French, so I’ll summarize for you.

You can access their very awesome demo online at: http://demo.sopac.biblibre.com/. It is important to remember this is just a test install for us to test and for them to play with – so if you have comments as you poke around, be sure to contact them and let them know what you learned.

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My delicious bookmarks for 2009-07-06

July 8th, 2009
  • Free / Open Source Research Community (Home)
    In the spirit of free and open source software (F/OSS), we are attempting to establish a community in which information will be freely exchanged, so that we may further the understanding of open source and its implications outside the realm of software development.
  • Newsy | The News With More Views
    Newsy.com is a multiperspective online video news site that monitors, synthesizes and presents the world’s news coverage.
  • SemperTool
    SemperTool introduces the first open source product: Subscription Management Database – SMDB. SMDB is an Electronic Resource Management system – ERM.
  • ILS Survey: Open Source vs. Proprietary
    This survey was conducted from October 30, 2007 to January 3, 2008. It was answered by libraries using the open source ILSs Koha (n=113) and Evergreen (n=119), and proprietary ILSs (n=129). The current version of Koha was 2.2.9 and Evergreen was 1.2.

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Open Source Software Use in Libraries

July 6th, 2009

I am working on some very very broad research on open source use in libraries for a book I’m working on. The focus of the book will be on software you can use that is open source. If you have a chance to answer this brief survey to help me out that would be greatly appreciated:

http://opensource.web2learning.net/limesurvey/index.php?sid=63946&lang=en

In sticking with the open source theme, I used LimeSurvey (an open source survey management tool) – check it out!!

Feel free to link here or repost this announcement all over libraryland.