LibrePlanet: Conference/2009/OpenConferenceSchedule/schoolnlib

Schools and Libraries

With Thomas Dukleth, Ben Weissman and Nicole Willson

The card catalogue is essentially a library, bibliographic material with the authors

the complexity of libraries led to a very complicated indexing, with long and detailed standards. Using the MARC format which was designed when storage space was precious.

But now! there is some internal support this MARC format.

Libraries use microsoft because the main branches decide, so it's not up to librarians.

Digitization services of archived stuff, how these things are scanned in

Integration of ref works

Zotero is free software that works with Mozilla used for managing and organizing citations

Liblung is a company offering services around Coha

What is the magic formula for getting free software into libraries? Talk to anyone who seems approachable, whoever you have a relationship with. They can putyou intouch with decision makers, be prepared for this to take a long time, especially since the lib may be tied into a years-long contract

Public access terminals? Gifts from the Gates foundation :(

The issue that is motivating at the libraries is cost. Not that you shouldn't talk about freedom, but getting rid of licensing fees will be much more compelling

Ben -- his high school requires the use of proprietary, the IT team is very unapproachable. Even a whitelist would be helpful

FSF should be doing more for students?