The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.
FoxyProxy: etc: quick links to good stuff Can’t get to MySpace from school? Can’t use instant messenger at work? Shhhh, don’t tell. Now you can with FoxyProxy: take back your privacy FoxyProxy is a full featured proxy management extension for Firefox, to help get around proxies of all sorts. Turn it on and off as [...]
West Liberty Public Library Migrates to Koha | oss4lib … the West Liberty Public Library located in Iowa, USA has migrated to Koha, the first open-source Integrated Library System. This makes West Liberty the second public library system in the US to switch to Koha. Tim McMahon, Technical Services librarian at West Liberty Public, said [...]
New JISC project will feed tables of contents into library catalogues A new JISC project is developing an RSS news feed service that will automatically feed publisher and e-journal information into library catalogues. … The open source software developed by the TOCRoSS project will be freely available to further and higher education establishments, publishers, and [...]
Open Access Webliography This webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that are freely available on the Internet as of April 2005. Lots and lots of resources.
Open Access Webliography This webliography presents a wide range of electronic resources related to the open access movement that are freely available on the Internet as of April 2005. Lots and lots of resources.
Check out the Open-Source Software for Libraries list I’ve added.
The Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards… These benefits of open access, open source, and open standards are numerous. The benefits include lower costs, great accessibility, and better prospects for long-term preservation of scholarly works. Libraries should embrace all three of these concepts now and in the future. By supporting open access, [...]
librarian.net The folks at LibLime want to help make the move to open source library systems easier and less fraught with peril. They sell and support their own version of Koha This is exactly what we need. I would love to try it out. I may have to set up a test installation.
LA city councilman says open source = more cops, or more teachers, or actual librarians. All cities and organizations need more money and proprietary solutions can be an unnecessary drain. Not to say you should use all open-source all of the time. But often it is just as good or better than the far more [...]
The Risks of Closed Source Computing One large vendor likes to talk about the risks of Open Source software, but the strange thing is, the risk is actually in closed technologies. This article looks at the real risks in following a proprietary software path. It’s well-written and easy to follow.