Comments for The Galecia Group

Comment on Leggott Responds to Stephen Abram by Tux

Tux — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:12:33 +0000

Stephen Abram is a talking head. A sell out. Hes not a librarian. Hes not a vice president of innovation. Hes a bought and paid for puppet. Forgive him, hes run out of relevant things to say

Comment on IMLS Awards $1 Mil for Open Source by admin

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:11:56 +0000

Hi MJ,

We’re still working out the details but are thinking about things like planning and evaluation documentation related to migration, technical staffing (planning, training), providing shared support options, setting up mentoring relationships with other libraries, expanding the number of developers and support providers involved with Evergreen (and possibly other open source library system products), and creating ways for people with similar development/enhancement interests find one another. The focus is on building internal resources within the libraries and focusing less on outside vendors to provide all the answers. How that will shape up exactly is still to be determined. Your ideas are welcome!

Comment on IMLS Awards $1 Mil for Open Source by MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:47:28 +0000

What infrastructure support will be offered?

Comment on IMLS Awards $1 Mil for Open Source by admin

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:46:04 +0000

Hi Ben,
The grant is not for development of a new ILS but to provide infrastructure support for the existing ones.

Comment on IMLS Awards $1 Mil for Open Source by Ben Ide

Ben Ide — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:30:47 +0000

Wow! Congratulations!

Any indication of whether this will be a new OS system or an adoption or adaptation of an existing one?

Thanks, and congrats again!

Comment on The Koha fork and being the change you want to see | Librarians Matter by Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:22:46 +0000

Hi Lori. Thanks for the heads up. I think that the events of the last few weeks (months ) show how timely was your session at Koha-Con about not replicating the vendor/passive, helpless consumer relationship.

The name of my blog is actually “Librarians Matter”. “Library Matters” is the blog of Joann Ransom from Horowhenua Library Trust who originally commissioned Koha.

Comment on Forming a Koha Foundation by Neekdesign

Neekdesign — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:19:49 +0000

Very interesting!

Comment on NISO RFID Guidelines Helpful but not yet “Standards” by Lori Ayre

Lori Ayre — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:58:49 +0000

Thanks for the additional info on NISO’s strategy. Though I was complaining (a little), I have found the Best Practices document very useful.
Still looking forward to the ISO standards…

Comment on You say Windowshop. I say Shelf Browse. by Lori Ayre

Lori Ayre — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:55:32 +0000

Thanks, David. I also fixed the link on my post. Pretty cool isn’t it!?

Comment on You say Windowshop. I say Shelf Browse. by Jed Moffitt

Jed Moffitt — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:44:20 +0000

The new John Lennon biography just exploded onto the screen. And of course, I did the usual–I hopped over to the KCLS website to place a hold on it.
I don’t know how we do it, but we’ve somehow got to take great bookfinding tools like this and eliminate that total jump to the library website in order to do library business on the title.
Anyway–this is a very cool tool.