This page features content from our presentations on Open Source software, links to articles we've written, and so on.
What We Use: A listing of the OSS sofware we use in the Crawford County Federated Library System.
John and Cindy's presentations on how OSS is used in the CCFLS libraries from the Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference:
John's presentation at ALA '09:
John's presentation about the Koha ILS:
Cindy's presentation on how we use OSS @ CCFLS:
Casey Bisson interviewed John and Cindy for an article in the May/June 2007 issue of Library Technology Reports. Link here:
http://www.techsource.ala.org/ltr/open-source-software-for-libraries.html
Here's a Creative Commons-licensed version of the article: http://maisonbisson.com/oss4lib/using-open-source/
Materials from Cindy's Preconference on how to use Open Source Internet filtering software to comply with CIPA.
Available at http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/osfiltering-ala.
John's presentation on Open Source filtering, presented at regional workshops sponsored by the Pennsylvania Library Association and Commonwealth Libraries. Available in pdf format:
Cindy's article on how Open Source software is being used at the Meadville Public Library as well as in the Crawford County Federated Library System.
John's 2003 Presentation at ALA.
Originally posted at http://www.opensourceschools.org
Presented by Cindy and John at the 2002 PaLA Annual Conference. http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/pala-ltsp
Cindy's presentation and handout for LITA National Forum, October 2002. http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/lita-ltsp