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What’s your full name (middle name too)? Michele Marie Maenpaa What is your official Job Title? Data Migration Specialist Did you (or do you) have a nickname?...

There is a free (or open access) chapter available from Scholarly Communication for Librarians a book that will be published by Chandos Inc. on Open Access...

COLUMBUS, OH --June 29, 2009-- LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries announced today that the Charles and JoAnne Lester Library in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, has selected a Koha ZOOM hosted solution for their next integrated library system.

There is a great article in the recent Code4Lib Journal release about developing open source applications. How Hard Can It Be...

COLUMBUS, OH --June 23, 2009-- LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries announced today that Walden University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has selected a Koha ZOOM hosted solution for their next integrated library system.

According to Mashable, Amazon has released the source code for the various Kindle releases...

If your library is using Drupal or Joomla you might want to help another librarian by answering these 5 questions about why you chose the system you chose...

I have been doing a lot of piecing out commits to break them into related feature-coherent sets lately, so I thought I’d share the webpage I used as a reference...

This week I took the plunge and bought a Blackberry Storm. I’ve been looking at the apps available and came across this open source announcement I thought you might be interested in...

I’m all for not using Windows at all but if you want to keep using Windows and want to try Ubuntu, Wubi might be the answer for you. Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click...

Henri-Damien Laurent, Release Maintainer for Koha 3.0, has announced the release of Koha 3.0.2, the second maintenance release of Koha in the 3.0.x series. The release tar file can be downloaded from http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.02.tar.gz...

This from Open Road: If you walk into the headquarters of open-source leader Red Hat, you’ll see this quote from Mahatma Gandhi gracing the wall: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win...

Koha 3.0.2 Stable has been released on download.koha.org Its name is koha-3.00.02.tar.gz This release is bug a series of bug fixes only and doesn’t include new features...

Dave Shields has been using his blog to run his campaign for a position on the Board of Directors of the Library in Chappaqua, New York and has a very interesting post about who all open source developers are in fact librarians and authors...

We’ve all heard of OpenOffice and Google Docs - but did you know that you can have the best of both worlds with OpenGoo?? This from SmashingApps: OpenGoo is an Open Source Web Office...

When I was in library school I installed Greenstone to play with it and write about it for an assignment. It was okay, but I was expecting more. Earlier this month I learned that there is a new research version of Greenstone - Greenstone v.3 that will be a complete rewrite of the old version...

Will I finally get to visit NZ? Looks like there is going to be a 10th anniversary KohaCon in NZ - the birthplace of Koha. Keep an eye on this page of the Koha wiki to see how things move along!...

The much anticipated Kete 1.2 release is now available. Kete 1.2 is now available and massively improves on Kete 1.1.  As usual, to grab the code see the downloads page for details or browse the code online at http://github.com/kete/kete/...

I wrote about the first five in this series last week - now for the most recent update to the Unsung Heroes of Koha series from Chris Cormack: Unsung Koha Heroes - Part 6 - Mike Mylonas Unsung heroes of Koha part 7 - Nicolas Rosasco - The first documentation manager Unsung Koha Heroes - Part 8 -...

Nicole Burchfield, aka Librarian, Interrupted asks why libraries are spending so much on licenses for software from Microsoft: Why do libraries spend thousands of dollars a year on Microsoft Windows licenses for pc’s that are only used for access to the internet? …...

What’s your full name (middle name too)? Mark Bucholtz What’s your job title? Data Migration Specialist...

COLUMBUS, OH--May 18, 2009--LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries, announced today that industry expert Maria Laude has joined LibLime's support team as Application Support Librarian.

Recently, I’ve been asked to add tagging to the guided reports section. I used this as an opportunity to implement a mixin that’s similar in spirit to acts_as_taggable for Ruby’s ActiveRecord ORM...

There’s a good article at Ars Technica talking about even more ways to trick out your Vim text editor...

As many of your know, I’m traveling a lot lately - well that’s because I’m out there teaching librarians about open source...

David Schuster has announced a meeting of KUDOS (Koha Users and Developers of Open Source) at the annual meeting of the American Library Association in Chicago...

As some of you know I’m a fan of Yahoo! Pipes and wrote a chapter about using Pipes with Koha for my upcoming Library Mashups book. Well, today I got 2 emails from Darrell Ulm at Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library telling me that he wrote 2 Pipes for his Koha installation...

David Schuster has announced a meeting of KUDOS (Koha Users and Developers of Open Source) at the annual meeting of the American Library Association in Chicago...

Chris Cormack has been writing a series of posts about the unsung heroes of Koha. The first five parts were written last week are an well worth a read if you want to learn more about the history of Koha and those involved...

I am reading an awesome book right now - Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe. I has read through bits of the book a few months back while waiting for my hubby to pick up a new RPG and liked what I saw...

Hi all, I’m Daniel Sweeney, and I’m Senior Business Analyst at LibLime.Galen and the Coders have written a lot of the posts on this blog, while I’ve been staying in the background. If you’re a LibLime customer who’s interested in custom development, though, you’ve probably heard from me...

I just sent a call for the next general IRC meeting of the Koha project, which will take place on 3 June 2009 at 10:00 UTC+0. Here’s a link to one time zone converter. We’re currently seeking a major coffee company to sponsor caffeine for North America and New Zealand...

Henri-Damien Laurent, Release Maintainer for Koha 3.0.x, has published a new Git tree with a candidate for Koha 3.0.2. From his original announcement: I am glad to announce that work for stable version 3.0.2 is well advanced...

Columbus, OH – May 6, 2009 – LibLime, the leader in open solutions for libraries, and Syndetics Solutions are pleased to announce a partnership to provide enriched bibliographic content to users of the Koha open-source ILS (integrated library syst

The first general IRC meeting of the Koha project in a long time took place today. For those who couldn’t make it, a log of the discussion is available. The agenda for the meeting is on the wiki. Some highlights from the meeting: Koha 3.2 will be frozen for new features at the end of August...

I found this on The Social Opac’s official site: BibLibre’s Nicolas Morin gave a presentation last week called “SOPAC: Connecting Drupal and Koha” where he talks about BibLibre’s experience with SOPAC and getting a Locum connector to work with Koha...

Last week one of the Koha Librarians created a page on the Koha Wiki for everyone to share their Custom Reports/SQL statements. This from Owen at Athens County: Koha users have begun building a library of useful SQL statements for use in building Koha reports. It’s on the Koha Wiki...

What’s your full name (middle name too)? Marcus Lee Roberson What’s your job title? VP, Library Partners...

Richard Stallman has a very interesting post entitled Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software that talks about free software versus open source and the origins of the terms and their philosophies...