Wondering what I’ve been up to at work lately? Well I’ve been swamped with getting ready for the ‡biblios.net beta test. ‡biblios.net is a subscription-based, hosted version of the open-source ‡biblios metadata editor (www.biblios.org) that LibLime released earlier this year. In addition to the editor, ‡biblios.net includes some extended community features such as integrated real-time [...]
This from the Koha mailing list: Hi folks, I’m happy to announce that a packaged release of Koha 3.00.00 is now available. You can download from the usual location: http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00.tar.gz.sig Release notes and more information can be found on the official Koha site. Technorati Tags: koha, ils, libraries, open source
Some big news out of LibLime this AM: ATHENS, OH and BLACKSBURG, VA–July 29, 2008 -– LibLime, the leader in open source solutions for libraries and CARE Affiliates™ announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement to sell select assets of CARE Affiliates to LibLime. The sale will include select products, related services [...]
After all of my work bug checking and writing the manual for Koha 3, the beta release has finally been announced. I’d love some help testing – so I can’t wait to see what you all have to say!! Technorati Tags: koha
Next up, LibLime‘s Joshua Ferraro. Josh talked to us about why LibLime was started and what both LibLime & Koha could do for libraries. Originally uploaded by nengard Why start LibLime? Josh would often hear librarians saying that they liked the idea of open source, but we have no way to support it. So, Josh [...]
Yesterday I had an interesting chat with my sister about library catalogs. We were talking about the post I made regarding IM & SMS and whether librarians should skip over IM and move on to SMS? I told her about the fact that card catalogs are still being used and she replied with “Well, I’d [...]
PLA is coming upon us very quickly! I just wanted to let you all know that I’ll be there probably at the booth most of the time – so stop by and see me. I also want to bring your attention to the Koha Interest Group meeting that we’re holding. Time and Place Date: Thursday, [...]
During my training I had the pleasure of meeting two of the newest LibLime team members. I already mentioned Marc Roberson, but now I’m happy to announce that John Rose has joined the LibLime team. John Rose Joins LibLime as VP, Strategic Markets …John comes to LibLime from CQ Press, where he was National Sales [...]
Are you attending Code4Lib this year? If you are – I encourage you to attend Koha Camp. Technorati Tags: code4lib, koha
Now that I’m the Open Source Evangelist at LibLime, it’s my job to blog at Open Sesame (a long abandoned blog). Now that the blog is up and running I encourage you to subscribe to the RSS feed and keep an eye on the open source news I post there. Technorati Tags: open source, liblime
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