Re: [CODE4LIB] Planning open source Library system at Duke

2008-01-29 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:26 PM, John Little wrote: The Duke University Libraries are preparing a proposal for the Mellon Foundation to convene the academic library community to design an open source Integrated Library System (ILS) Personally, I think this is a good idea. Yes, there are

Re: [CODE4LIB] Planning open source Library system at Duke

2008-01-29 Thread Peter Keane
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: On another topic, I also think it's good to have options, so I'm not sure I expect (or would welcome) total convergence between various open source ILS projects. But to the extent we're imagining various loosely coupled modules which can be

[CODE4LIB] (Re-)Introducing the Umlaut

2008-01-29 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
We have gone live with the Umlaut software here at my place of work. I've been mentioned working on this and how it may help solve problems brought up here for a while, so many may be curious. Umlaut essentially functions as a 'front end' to the SFX link resolver, providing flexibility,