Beartooth | 27 Mar 2009 19:35
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[WBEL-users] Other linux/library options??


	Is this list alive??

	It doesn't look it, at least on Gmane, and I'm very sorry to see 
that.

	Some guy on the Fedora list I follow*, named Rohit Gupta,
at Kalyani Government Engineering College (KGEC), somewhere in
India, is trying to get a Linux Users' Group (LUG) off the ground
-- and vaunts : "one more success: We have installed and setup
the library computer with fedora 10."

       I doubt he guesses what a jackpot he has hit.

        I started to refer him to Whitebox; discovered that it
seems to have done a classic imitation of Lost River (id est,
sunk into the ground); started to refer him to Autocat;
discovered searching the archives is a lot less obvious that I
thought -- so I decided to do a first search myself, and zap him
the result -- and couldn't do it, in fact. Aaarrgghhh, it's awful
to get old.

	But I'm sure several of you (if any are left) still also follow 
Autocat; and some no doubt will have better ideas than that.

        Has there been any recent discussion of linux in
libraries, somewhere that a non-librarian could find? Where would
be a good place for him to get a start, to save reinventing
wheels within wheels?

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Daniel J. Summers | 31 Mar 2009 03:03
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Re: [WBEL-users] Other linux/library options??

Beartooth wrote:
>         Has there been any recent discussion of linux in
> libraries, somewhere that a non-librarian could find? Where would
> be a good place for him to get a start, to save reinventing
> wheels within wheels?
>   
I don't know of a distribution targeted at the libraries (WBEL wasn't, 
although it was produced by one), but I know that there is a library 
management system called Koha that runs on Linux.  Maybe their site at 
http://www.koha.org/ would be a good place for that sort of information.

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Vicki Reeves | 31 Mar 2009 04:51

Re: [WBEL-users] Other linux/library options??

> Beartooth wrote:
> >         Has there been any recent discussion of linux in
> > libraries, somewhere that a non-librarian could find? Where would
> > be a good place for him to get a start, to save reinventing
> > wheels within wheels?

The Evergreen Open Source (Library automation system) project is
exciting ... not strictly Linux but both server and client run on Linux.
http://evergreen-ils.org/   http://www.linux.com/feature/145797
Attending the first ever conference Evergree conference (May in Athens
Georgia) might be a good way to meet library people with a Linux "bend"

http://www.maintainitproject.org/files/Marian%20Wynn.pdf  - 2006
conversion story.  

http://www.osor.eu/news/be-public-library-schools-to-use-multi-seat-gnu
interesting approach

Beauregard Parish Library still loves to give tours so if you are
anywhere near DeRidder Louisiana, feel free to contact us about setting
up a time for you to come see our project.
Beartooth | 31 Mar 2009 18:22
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Re: [WBEL-users] Other linux/library options??

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:51:25 -0500, Vicki Reeves wrote:

> The Evergreen Open Source (Library automation system) project is
> exciting ... not strictly Linux but both server and client run on Linux.
> http://evergreen-ils.org/   http://www.linux.com/feature/145797
> Attending the first ever conference Evergree conference (May in Athens
> Georgia) might be a good way to meet library people with a Linux "bend"
> 
> http://www.maintainitproject.org/files/Marian%20Wynn.pdf  - 2006
> conversion story.
> 
> http://www.osor.eu/news/be-public-library-schools-to-use-multi-seat-gnu
> interesting approach

	Many thanks! I took the liberty of forwarding both your and 
Daniel Summers's posts direct to Rohit Gupta, along with a cover note 
taking up on his Fedora list post, to show they're legit.

> Beauregard Parish Library still loves to give tours so if you are
> anywhere near DeRidder Louisiana, feel free to contact us about setting
> up a time for you to come see our project.

	Well, I'm in SW Virginia and don't travel much any more; and 
afaik, Gupta is in India; but thanks much for the invitation!

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