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Open Source Software Used in the Library
I have been thinking a lot about the pros and cons of free and open source software lately. I found this chart very useful in spelling out some of the arguments, in this case the pros and cons of open...
View ArticleYouTube – Information R/evolution
YouTube – Information R/evolution This short video should be required viewing for all information professionals. The world is moving forward…. are we being left behind?
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Edubuntu: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
<!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> <!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> Well, after several months of...
View ArticleRecipes for a 5-Star Library (with contributions by yours truly)
The Maintainit project has released another Joy of computing Cookbook. If you look closely, you will see that on Page three under the acknowledgments, I am listed as being from the Cass County Public...
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Defective By Design Calls for Protests against DRM using Libraries
Libraries: Kick DRM out! The Boston Public Library (BPL) has DRM on its ebooks, audio books, music, and videos. These DRM systems sit between you and the item and restrict how and for how long you...
View ArticleNew Linux Project @ Cass
The friends group at the Howard Branch of the Cass District Library have generously donated a six station computer table for patron access computers. This means that we need to come up with six new...
View ArticleEverex pc2 first impressions
The everex pc arrived today and the reviews of gos being a total piece of crap os are true. I am sure that anyone with tech skills would put on a Distro like Ubuntu, and those without tech skills...
View ArticleWhat I did to make the Everex ready for patrons
The first thing I did was download and burn Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Herron to a disk. This was eventually done on a “gasp” Windows machine, since the gOS burning software was somehow not able to burn a...
View ArticleJulia’s SuperTux Commercial
SuperTux This is the commercial that Julia, Ashley and I made for Julia’s first grade advertising project. She made the poster that is at the beggining and end of the video. She is also going to...
View ArticleHow to Create a CIPA Compliant Content Filter Using Free Software.
In this post I will describe how to use free open source software to create a simple CIPA compliant web filter that can be used in a small to medium public library. Â I am using Ubuntu server 10.04...
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