Library Cataloging
Title: Open Source Software in Libraries
Date: February 17, 2006
Early Bird Deadline: 1/06/2006
Location: North Harris Montgomery Community College District Libraries, The Woodlands, TX
Description:
According to the Open Source Initiative, "the basic idea behind open source is very simple: when programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing."
This workshop will provide structured opportunities for participants to experience how open source software can be used to implement many library-specific processes. Learn how open source software can help simplify such processes such as reading and writing MARC records, creating and maintaining databases, providing user-friendly interfaces to indexed content, hosting a World Wide Web server, and most importantly, bringing all of these processes together to providing meaningful library collections and services.
Participants in this hands-on workshop will learn skills enabling them to:
Library directors, managers, catalogers, reference librarians, bibliographers, archivists, electronic resource librarians, systems librarians, IT managers -- all types of librarians.
Prerequisites:
Participants should be able to type, have an understanding of the fundamental principles of librarianship, and most importantly, be willing to learn.
Presenter:
Eric Lease Morgan is head of the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department at the University Libraries at Notre Dame. He considers himself a librarian first and a computer user second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computers to improve library and knowledge services. Applied research and development has included investigations into traditional library science, digital libraries, information retrieval, and human-computer interaction. In 1994, he began the Mr Serials Process, a systematic method for collecting, indexing, and disseminating electronic serials. This matured into Index Morganagus. One of his more recognized accomplishments is the development of a portal application called MyLibrary. In 2002, he was awarded the Bowker/Ulrich Serials Librarianship Award for his serials work as well as MyLibrary. In 2004, he was awarded the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for outstanding communication in library and information technology.
For more information.I attended this workshop a while back in Dallas and it was worth it. Now it is here in my area. Well worth attending.
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A very interesting looking book is now available from LITA, Open Source Software for LibrariesThis guide introduces the reader to OSS and how it could benefit libraries, and illustrates this with a variety of library projects that have both used and developed...
Library Cataloging
Houston Area - Open Source Software in Libraries Workshop
Title: Open Source Software in Libraries
Date: February 17, 2006
Early Bird Deadline: 1/06/2006
Location: North Harris Montgomery Community College District Libraries, The Woodlands, TX
Description:
According to the Open Source Initiative, "the basic idea behind open source is very simple: when programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing."
This workshop will provide structured opportunities for participants to experience how open source software can be used to implement many library-specific processes. Learn how open source software can help simplify such processes such as reading and writing MARC records, creating and maintaining databases, providing user-friendly interfaces to indexed content, hosting a World Wide Web server, and most importantly, bringing all of these processes together to providing meaningful library collections and services.
Participants in this hands-on workshop will learn skills enabling them to:
- Bring up a Web server and serve simple HTML filesWrite and run very simple computer programsUse a Z39.50 client to search for and download Library of Congress MARC recordsRead, write, and create reports against sets of MARC recordsIndex MARC records and HTML files and make these indexes available on the web as CGI scriptsRead, write, and convert XML filesCreate a very simple library catalog using a relational database
Library directors, managers, catalogers, reference librarians, bibliographers, archivists, electronic resource librarians, systems librarians, IT managers -- all types of librarians.
Prerequisites:
Participants should be able to type, have an understanding of the fundamental principles of librarianship, and most importantly, be willing to learn.
Presenter:
Eric Lease Morgan is head of the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department at the University Libraries at Notre Dame. He considers himself a librarian first and a computer user second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computers to improve library and knowledge services. Applied research and development has included investigations into traditional library science, digital libraries, information retrieval, and human-computer interaction. In 1994, he began the Mr Serials Process, a systematic method for collecting, indexing, and disseminating electronic serials. This matured into Index Morganagus. One of his more recognized accomplishments is the development of a portal application called MyLibrary. In 2002, he was awarded the Bowker/Ulrich Serials Librarianship Award for his serials work as well as MyLibrary. In 2004, he was awarded the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for outstanding communication in library and information technology.
For more information.I attended this workshop a while back in Dallas and it was worth it. Now it is here in my area. Well worth attending.
OpenSource
- Marcview And Marconvert Released As Open Source Software
OCLC has released MARCView and MARConvert as open source software.OCLC and Systems Planning are pleased to announce the donation of MARCView™ and MARConvert™ to OCLC, and OCLC's release of MARCView™ and MARConvert™ as open...
- Open Source
The latest issue of WebJunction focuses on OS. The articles include:New Zealand Leads the Way: the Horowhenua Open Source Story by Rosalie Blake and Rachel Hamilton-WilliamsOpen Source Software in the Meadville Public Library by Cindy MurdockNelsonville...
- Open Source
The Open Source Software and Libraries Bibliography compiled by Brenda Chawner "includes announcements, journal articles, and web documents that are about open source software development in libraries. It also includes articles that describe specific...
- Open Source & Digital Libraries
Materials from the NISSAT-NCSI Workshop on Developing Digital Libraries using Open Source Software are available on-line. The open-source softwares used were E-Prints Archive Software and Greenstone Digital Library Software running on Linux. Thanks FOS...
- Open Source
A very interesting looking book is now available from LITA, Open Source Software for LibrariesThis guide introduces the reader to OSS and how it could benefit libraries, and illustrates this with a variety of library projects that have both used and developed...