Stallman in Ottawa Next Week

I’ll be going to hear Richard Stallman at the Treasury Board library next Tuesday. He’ll be talking about collaborative initiatives and (undoubtedly) their associated licenses (GFL, Creative Commons, etc). The primary focus will likely be wikis, as the Treasury Board is behind the Government of Canada’s GCPedia project.
Afterward, he’ll be speaking on the steps of [...]

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Evergreen Z39.50 Server

It’s the end of Week 2 at the new job[1] and it has been productive. Part of that may be because I ingested a decent amount of coffee. (I can’t get enough Bridgehead coffee and tea after being away from Ottawa for so long – I hope they expand to other cities in the near [...]

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The Michigan Evergreen Story in CL

Randy Dykhuis has an article in this month’s Collaborative Librarianship in which he discusses the history of the Michigan Library Consortium’s move to Evergreen (full text[PDF]). From the abstract:

“In 2008, seven Michigan public libraries migrated to Evergreen, an open source integrated library system developed by the Georgia Public Library Service. The Michigan Library Consortium and [...]

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Back to Work – Day 1

Today is my first day of work since completing my MLIS. As much as I wanted to work on my professional development during my two-week “vacation” between the end of school and the start of my new career, I instead spent much of my time recharging my batteries and recuperating from my final term.
Now that [...]

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Phony “Peer-Reviewed” Medical Journal

It is being reported in The Scientist and the BioEthics Blog that Merck created a phony, “peer-reviewed” journal called the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, which was published by Elsevier.
Beyond the understandable anger from the medical research community, you could also forgive librarians for being a bit pissed, too. It’s bad enough having [...]

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