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Subject: [syscon-tx] Open Source Workshop/Houston Area
“OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IN LIBRARIES”
WORKSHOP SCHEDULED FEBRUARY 17 IN HOUSTON AREA
Title:
Open Source Software in
Libraries
Date:
February 17, 2006
Early Bird
Deadline: 1/06/2006
Location:
North Harris Montgomery Community College District Libraries, The
Woodlands, TX
Description:
According to the Open Source Initiative, "the
basic idea behind open source is very simple: when programmers can read,
redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software
evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs. And this can
happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software
development, seems astonishing."
This workshop will provide structured opportunities
for participants to experience how open source software can be used to implement
many library-specific processes. Learn how open source software can help
simplify such processes such as reading and writing MARC records, creating and
maintaining databases, providing user-friendly interfaces to indexed content,
hosting a World Wide Web server, and most importantly, bringing all of these
processes together to providing meaningful library collections and
services.
Participants in this
hands-on workshop will learn skills enabling them to:
- Bring up a Web server and serve simple HTML files
- Write and run very simple computer programs
- Use a Z39.50 client to search for and download Library of Congress MARC records
- Read, write, and create reports against sets of MARC records
- Index MARC records and HTML files and make these indexes available on the web as CGI scripts
- Read, write, and convert XML files
- Create a very simple library catalog using a relational database
Audience:
Library directors, managers, catalogers, reference librarians, bibliographers, archivists, electronic resource librarians, systems librarians, IT managers -- all types of librarians.
Prerequisites:
Participants should be able to type, have an understanding of the fundamental principles of librarianship, and most importantly, be willing to learn.
Presenter:
Eric Lease Morgan is head of the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department at the University Libraries at Notre Dame. He considers himself a librarian first and a computer user second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computers to improve library and knowledge services. Applied research and development has included investigations into traditional library science, digital libraries, information retrieval, and human-computer interaction. In 1994, he began the Mr Serials Process, a systematic method for collecting, indexing, and disseminating electronic serials. This matured into Index Morganagus. One of his more recognized accomplishments is the development of a portal application called MyLibrary. In 2002, he was awarded the Bowker/Ulrich Serials Librarianship Award for his serials work as well as MyLibrary. In 2004, he was awarded the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for outstanding communication in library and information technology.
For more information, go to http://www.amigos.org/learning/catalog/shopping/product_details.php?id=163.
For the most up-to-date training schedule, a complete list of courses, descriptions, and a convenient online registration form, go to http://www.amigos.org/learning/calendar/ or contact Chris Brown at Amigos, 1-800-843-8482 (972-851-8000 in the Dallas area), ext. 2829, or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
