What We Use: A listing of the OSS sofware we use in the Crawford County Federated Library System.

http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7939 Code4lib journal article, Issue 19 2013-01-15.

These are my notes on customizing Ubuntu Lucid with LTSP 5 for our public Internet stations, including locking down Gnome and refreshing user accounts: Customizing Ubuntu Lucid for Public Computing

Also see Kyle's notes for locking down Gnome for use with Libki: http://wiki.libki.org/doku.php?id=libki_on_gnome

• http://ccfls.org/about-koha

Kyle Hall and Cindy Murdock Ames present a webinar about how we use OSS in our libraries:

• Presentation: https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/download/schedule/gbs1y6wd4n7e
• Audio: https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/download/schedule/chowdcanwo9z
• Full Recording: http://cc.readytalk.com/play?id=9nvlr3
• Forum: http://bit.ly/oslib

John and Cindy's presentations on how OSS is used in the CCFLS libraries from the Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference:

• John's: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/pala09/PaLAPresentation_10_09.pdf
• Cindy's: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/pala09/Cindy_PALA_2009.pdf

John's presentation at ALA '09:

• http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/ALA2009/ALA_2009_presentation_text_jb.pdf (text)
• http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/ALA2009/ALA_2009_Koha_demo_slides_john_brice.pdf (slides)

John's presentation about the Koha ILS:

• http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/ALA2008/Koha_demo_slides_john_brice.ppt

Cindy's presentation on how we use OSS @ CCFLS:

• http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/ALA2008/OSS@CCFLS.pdf
• handout: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/ALA2008/ala_2008_handout_Cindy_Murdock.pdf

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/

• http://kylehall.info/
• LibKi kiosk management system: http://libki.org

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:

http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/cipafiltering.pdf

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.

http://www.webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=3973

John's 2003 Presentation at ALA.

• HTML version: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/ala2003
• StarOffice version: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/ala2003.sdd

Originally posted at http://www.opensourceschools.org

• http://opensourceschools.org/article.php?story=20030401120601397
• Backup copy: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/opensourcefiltering.html

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

http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/ala/index.html

http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/filtering

• Open Source 101: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/opensource101
• Open Source Filtering: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/opensourcefiltering
• Open Source Server Software for Libraries: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/opensourceservers
• Thin Client Workstations: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/thinclients

• Learning Open Source: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/learningos.html
• Links to Information: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/links.html
• Other Open Source Software: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/othersoftware.html
• Thin Client Howto: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/ltsp.html
• Thin Client Configuration Files: http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/thin-client-files.tar.gz