RSS 1.0 export from the folder 'eIFL-FOSS Blog'. http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/foss-blog/exportrss The recent appointment of K.G. Schneider - prolific blogger on librianship, writing and everything else, since 2003 - as Community Librarian for Equinox marks a significant milestone. It is... http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/foss-blog/2008_05_20_community-liaison 2008-05-20 randy-m Randy Metcalfe en FOSS Community FOSS Development As readers of this blog will know, I am not a professional librarian, and I am also not, by training, a programmer. Fortunately for me, around the time I started working closely with librarians and... http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/foss-blog/2008_04_01_code4lib-journal 2008-04-01 randy-m Randy Metcalfe en FOSS Community FOSS Discussion FOSS Software NewGenLib, which stands for New Generation Library, is an integrated library system (ILS) that some of you, especially those in India, Syria, Sudan, or Cambodia, will already know. It is the product... http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/foss-blog/2008_03_18_newgenlib-new-foss-ils 2008-03-18 randy-m Randy Metcalfe en FOSS Software Internet relay chat (IRC) is a familiar communication tool in FOSS development and user communities. It can be vibrant, fast-paced, friendly, exceedingly geeky, and ideal for getting a quick response... http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/foss-blog/2008_02_11_irc-information-on-tap 2008-02-11 randy-m Randy Metcalfe en FOSS Community FOSS Development This past Thursday and Friday I attended the Ontario Library Association (OLA) Super Conference in Toronto, Canada. It is a huge annual event in the professional librarianship calendar in Ontario... http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/foss-blog/ola-superconference 2008-02-05 randy-m Randy Metcalfe en FOSS Community Recently I had the good fortune to be invited along for a special evening celebrating, publicising, and enthusing about the One Laptop Per Child project organized by Mita Williams  of The Leddy... http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/foss-blog/2008_01_30_olpc-open-source-open 2008-01-30 randy-m Randy Metcalfe en FOSS Community FOSS Discussion Zotero (http://www.zotero.org) is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension for managing and citing references and creating bibliographies. Zotero is the FOSS alternative for EndNote®, the product of... http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/foss-blog/2008_01_16_open-source-software 2008-01-16 tigran-z Tigran Zargaryan, Randy Metcalfe en FOSS Software This past Friday, I had the good fortune to meet up with John Fink at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. John is Digital Technologies Librarian in the Mills Memorial Library at... http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/foss-blog/ils-migration-long-game 2008-01-15 randy-m Randy Metcalfe en FOSS Software The final day of Open Translation Tools 2007 found us tired yet eager for more. We followed a similar pattern to day 2 with parallel sessions dominating, punctuated by another SpeakGeeking session.... http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/foss-blog/2007_12_03_ott-day-3 2007-12-03 randy-m Randy Metcalfe en FOSS Development Day 2 at Open Translation Tools started bright and early. And just as interactive as day one. Now that we all had a bit more knowledge under our belts, it made sense to go around the room again and... http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-foss/foss-blog/2007_12_03_open-translation-tools 2007-12-03 randy-m Randy Metcalfe en FOSS Development