WordPress is one of, if not the most, popular pieces of software for blogging and managing websites, mostly because of the ease of installation. But customizing it can be a difficult and technical process. Annotum is a WordPress theme built for publishing research papers. It has all of the functionality built-in for multiple authors to [...]

I’ve updated my list of Open Source Software for libraries, updating links and cleaning out dead projects.

techPresident – Why the White House’s Embrace of Drupal Matters Drupal developers are abuzz with the realization that the White House’s new Recovery.gov site was built using the free and open-source content management platform Drupal. Pre-Recovery.gov, the perhaps highest-profile use of Drupal had been the Onion website. But that’s not the only reason that Drupal [...]

LISNews.org | LibLime Koha is Chosen by the Guggenheim Museum Tina N. Burger dropped by to spread The Word on The Guggenheim Museum going with Koha. The Guggenheim chose LibLime for its open-source expertise, and is confident that the partnership will better enable the museum to achieve its future library automation goals: “Working with LibLime [...]

Linux.com | Libraries facilitate open access to information with open source software Getting libraries in the minds of Unix geeks isn’t a bad idea either…

Koha with Class: Free Hosted Koha for Library Classrooms | oss4lib Just like Dialog, students can now play with Koha during school. Brilliant advertising for Liblime and Koha.

Boing Boing: Giant, amazing study of Free/Open software Rishab Ayer Gosh has led an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers through an enormous study of Free/Open Source Software. The paper, called “Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU,” runs to 287 [...]

Drupal is a very powerful open-source content management system but it’s also hard for non-programmers to understand. DLCMS is a prototype of a Drupal system modified for library websites.

LISNews.org | Are OPAC Vendors Days Numbered? … the combination of open source and the reluctance of vendors to keep their systems up to date will result result in the demise of significant number of commerical library vendors in the next five years. The poor performance and outdated products of commercial OPAC products is due [...]

LibrarianInBlack: Bloggy-Bloggy OPAC Casey Bisson writes that the Lamson Library at Plymouth State University has decided to use the WordPress-based OPAC (WPopac) he built on nights and weekends as its primary OPAC from now on. Things like this just make me more frustrated with the IT department at my school. We can’t get them to [...]