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Thanks!

From my experience Wikipedia does not want cultural truth and homogenizes and sterilizes everything in it’s quest for truth.

I began listing a few folk songs and histories that were handed down through 4 generations of family members. These songs were from the Western NC mountains.

The information was abruptly deleted from a man in Poland stating that I violated copyright and that I was not able to provide a source.

I tried to explain that the songs were over 100 years and were considered traditional as they are in the public domain.

I was told this was not encyclopedic as no source could be given so the song lyrics and history of the meaning of the song remains deleted.

I have to laugh at this because I am the authority on these songs I was wanting to share the cultural relevance of these songs.

Unfortunately, the Appalachian songs Wikipedia have put up are by archivists of the 50’s and 60’s who butchered the lyrics because they did not understand the culture and the southern dialect they were researching.

I tried to correct a few of these songs, but again was defeated as I could not source my knowledge of southern US dialect. I laughed at that because I from the Southern US and live in the Appalachian mountains where these songs are still sung to this day.

This is really all a shame because Wikipedia will continue to perpetuate cultural myths that will end up becoming truth to a new generation of internet users.

I think you said that just by sending a journal that they may see the logo of is branding. How do you measure that? Even if you don’t get more downloads right on maybe they go to the library next time and don’t buy the book on amazon because they remember the exlusive library journal that felt impressive and impressive libraries may have the book I want.

I think you should be very careful when doing evaluations of your marketing efforts. I heard one librarian that stopped doing marketing questionnaires because they always got the same answer: Library is terrific but I haven’t time… I mean you don’t always get the answers or the data you would want to have, that would demand some brain scanning of their daily basis thoughts and lucky us we haven’t come that far yet

But maybe undercover bambusing their office could be something… ;-)

I would like to get more information on the Laptop deals that you are giving out. Thank you for your help.
Richard.

Viva la Freedom!!!

Thanks,
Matty

This is to announce that live videobroadcasting covering the programme of the INFORUM 2007 conference on electronic information resources will be available at http://www.inforum.cz/en/videobroadcasting/ this year.

INFORUM 2007 keynote and guest speakers: Peter Jacso, Peter Godwin, Guus van den Brekel and Zinaida Manzuch.

In case of videobroadcasting, you could choose between the original commentary of the speaker and its simultaneous interpretation. The official languages of the conference are Czech and English.

These sessions will be videobroadcasted:
Conference Opening
New Technologies and Tools for Electronic Information Resources and Services
European Digital Library and Similar Projects Worldwide
Electronic Information -New Solutions for Traditional Approaches
Web Search Update and World 2.0
Managing Effective Access to E-resources
Conference Closing

The project is implemented by the Ikaros professional electronic journal http://www.ikaros.cz in cooperation with organisers of the conference – Albertina icome Praha and University of Economics in Prague and kindly supported by these companies: Cosmotron http://www.cosmotron.cz and Blackwell Publishing http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/. Technical support is provided by CESNET.

http://www.freecharity.org.uk/2007/04/12/the-secret-to-screencasting-with-ubuntu-and-free-software/

Fran Ceramics.ca

freesoftwarevideotutorials.com

That would be me… I was cryptic, at first, about my identity as I was working as a systems librarian and I wasn’t entirely sure I wanted work and blog intermingled. However, due to health reasons I had to leave my beloved post, and the blog’s gone on, with modifications, mainly due to the health issues.

I was a reference/systems librarian in a suburb of Boston, MA, USA. Now I’m working very part time as an archivist for the local historical society.

Thanks for the mention, and certainly keep the open source faith. Nothing can beat it for public access computers, and I believe it’s time has come for staff/ILS solutions.

shoe

We met in Cluj and I am following your blog so I thought this article might be interesting for you.
http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/06/12/04/1538214.shtml

regards

Ronald

I used to think that OpenSource was inferior to normal software, but based on Koha, it looks better!

Any idea how I can get in touch with David? The last email address I had for him dlcharles@wanadoo.fr is returning mail.

Many thanks,

Sue Bate
Head of Serials
John Rylands University Library

Via Nowhere North kommer tips på ett open source bibliotekssystem – Koha.
Intressant läsning och demo av opac för den nyfikne.

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Take a look at this:
http://igelu.org/Conferences/stockholm2006/Session6b/5-9-06-redesigning-our-combine-harvester-ane-w-van-der-leij.ppt
It is my presentation of LiveTrix, in Stockholm of all places, last september.
(I’m a colleague of Guus’, he works at the University’s Medical Library, I myself work at the central University Library in Groningen. We worked togethe on the LiveTrix-project.)

Om du vill veta mera, så får du gärna mejla mig på svenska.

Lars

Lars

The name of the vendor supporting Koha is LibLime, not LibMe. ;-). They provide a number of support services on Koha including hosting, installation, development, migration assistance, software maintenance, staff training, and technical support.

Heres some that we know of

http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=kohausers#europe

Have you noticed that the presentations are now available at http://www.eahilconfcluj.ro/scientific_programme.html

Nice socializing with you at the conference. I can tell the readers why I met Hervé is because his very found of Scopus, and he should be, and saw my name because of my projectblog oneentry.wordpress.com where I evaluated Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar.

Lars, that was a pleasure to meet you last week, and also all the nice people : the swedish community, people from Poland, Dutch guy from Groninguen, organizers, etc. Honnestly speaking, I was rather sceptic about blogs, initially… Now, you, Guus and Oliver have absolutely convinced me to try such services in a professionnal environment !!! C U soon !
Hervé

Wouter