At the ALA Top Tech Trends Panel, panelists including Marshall Breeding, Roy Tennant, Karen Coombs, and John Blyberg discussed RFID, open source adoption in libraries, and the importance of privacy. Marshall Breeding, director for innovative technologies and research at Vanderbilt University Libraries (TN), started the Top Tech Trends panel by referencing his LJ Automation Marketplace [...]
Now there’s a new kid on the (meta)search block. LibraryFind, an open-source project funded by the State Library of Oregon, is currently live at Oregon State University. The library has just packaged up a release for anyone to download and install. Jeremy Frumkin, Gray chair for Innovative Library Services at OSU, said the goals were [...]
Salon’s Scott Rosenberg has written an elegant bird’s eye view of modern software development by observing the development of Chandler, an open source calendaring project. It was originally publicized as a way to kill the Exchange server hegemony in much the same way that Apache has dominated Microsoft’s IIS. Yet as the subtitle says, “two [...]
This is the second episode of the Open Libraries podcast, and I was pleased to have the opportunity to talk to some of the authors of the Winter netConnect supplement, entitled Digitize This! The issue covers how libraries can start to digitize their unique collections. K. Matthew Dames and Jil Hurst-Wahl wrote an article about [...]
Evergreen, the open source ILS system in use by the Georgia PINES libraries, now has a couple of support options. The developers behind the system have launched Equinox Software, modestly billed as “The Future of Library Automation.” The company consists of members of the Evergreen development team as well as the Georgia Assistant State Librarian, [...]
Another interesting tagging project from the art world is steve.museum, billed as “the first experiment in social tagging of museum collections,” which has recently been funded by IMLS for two years. At a 17 November New York Technical Services Librarians meeting, Susan Chun of the Metropolitan Musuem of Art said steve solves the problem of [...]
Making the link from a statewide project to something more: LibLime is one option for libraries outside Georgia interested in Evergreen. Joshua Ferraro, LibLime president, said they provide “hosting, data migration, installation, training, and technical support” to libraries looking to switch to Evergreen. LibLime was retained by the PINES project during development to provide Quality [...]
“Shift Happens” Preservation, entertainment in the library, and integrating Library 2.0 into a Web 2.0 world dominated the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) National Forum in Nashville, TN, October 26-29, 2006. With 378 registered attendees from 43 states and several countries, including Sweden and Trinidad, attendance held steady with previous years, though the Internet [...]
When Linux and Apache were familiar to the sysadmin community, Dan Chudnov had the foresight to develop a site for librarians to swap tips about open source software that would be useful in libraries. Now, with libraries contemplating the advantages of home-grown open source library catalogs anew, open source expertise has become even more valuable. [...]
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Jay Datema has an MBA from Binghamton University (2007), a Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University (1999), and a BA in Literature from Wheaton College (1995).
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Powazek, Derek. Design for community : the art of connecting real people in virtual places. Indianapolis Ind.: New Riders, 2002.
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