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Comment on Federal libraries taking a hit – ‘troubling trend’ with ‘bottom line impact’ by Dan Scott

Dan Scott — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:15:44 +0000

Wow. Just read the rationale from the strategic review for the closing of the HRSDC Library and… wow.

I imagine that I’m like most librarians in that I spend much of my time trying to enable people to do more of their research online (acquiring electronic resources, providing reference assistance via email, licensing or building tools to support research, etc). I find it hard to believe that succeeding at making people capable of more efficient online research would justify the subsequent closure of the library. But I can believe it, sadly.

Sorry to hear about the loss of so many positions at your library. We’ve lost a number of positions over the years as well, and it makes it impossible to continue to provide the level of service that we want to offer. Pretty demoralizing :/

Comment on System upgrade: oopsie doopsie at major SD shop by parser

parser — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:33:30 +0000

Indeed – only last I spoke with some of their crew (back in 2008 @ Access), the view from the top was that open source ILS ‘was not an option.’ Further, given how these things work – if the city approved the upgrade in 2009, they’re not likely going to entertain another change until a few more years pass or their system goes broke again in some major way.

Comment on System upgrade: oopsie doopsie at major SD shop by John

John — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:09:46 +0000

A good time to pitch Evergreen to the city?

Comment on This is what I’m talking about…(Evergreen ILS) by Loose Cannon Librarian | Some things I’m reading

Loose Cannon Librarian | Some things I’m reading — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:46:00 +0000

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Comment on Koha manoeuvres by Koha ILS (kohails) 's status on Wednesday, 16-Sep-09 21:44:03 UTC - Identi.ca

Koha ILS (kohails) 's status on Wednesday, 16-Sep-09 21:44:03 UTC - Identi.ca — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:44:11 +0000

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Comment on Koha manoeuvres by Dan Scott

Dan Scott — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:20:56 +0000

Nice response to Breeding’s post, George. His call to “focus on the libraries” reminded me of the lame cry to “think about the children” – far too simplistic.

In the context of Evergreen, but with a nod to Breeding’s post, I keep thinking “Why the heck would anyone want to do anything like set up a replica of the Kuali Foundation when the Software Freedom Conservancy (http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/) exists to provide most of those services for free?” but then I think – okay, what exactly are the goals for this foundation?

And that’s really the hardest part. The basics are easy: something to funnel charitable donations through (in the US at least – but both Koha and Evergreen are international in scope); something to legally hold and administer trademarks, etc; and something to protect the project participants from legal challenges… but as far as providing direction to and management over the project, as the Kuali approach seems to be (again, just from Breeding’s account) – would we actually want that? And would the companies / cooperatives / individual developers involved in the project accept that?

One goal I could imagine would be seed funding for broadening the development base: developing tutorials and workshops for introductory and intermediate developers that would give them an onramp into the respective codebases. Call it development-focused if you like, but a larger pool of development talent would give libraries more options for getting their particular needs met.

Comment on Drupal in Government – Ottawa event by parser

parser — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:03:04 +0000

More updates/links sent from Mike Gifford @ openconcept:

http://openconcept.ca/blog/mgifford/ottawa_showcase_of_drupal_in_government

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgifford/3840292886/

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23drupalgov

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=106648013724

Comment on Canadian government asks about Open Source by parser

parser — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:34:01 +0000

Sun replies to the RFI. Other responses here.

Comment on Canadian government asks about Open Source by parser

parser — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:09:13 +0000

The folks at OpenConcept posted a summary of their response to the RFI, located here with full reply here (pdf).

Comment on ILS Migration: SirsiDynix and III on exit support and maintenance by Peter Ivanick

Peter Ivanick — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:19:54 +0000

Ours was signed in ’99 (and I wasn’t here, either) but we came up on Millenium. But in looking over our contract from then, it doesn’t look to me like it’s explicitly stated one way or another, although my reading would be that indeed we could hang onto the software w/o maintenance if we chose to.

I would of course get our University General Counsel to take a look at it before I proceeded, and I could just be plain wrong in our case. I wonder if they changed the contract between ’99 and ’02?