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Georgia Public Library Service (GPLS) runs its ILS system on open source. The system, Evergreen, was first launched in September 2006. It supports 252 Public Information Network for Electronic Services (PINES) member libraries throughout the state of Georgia.
According to the PINES Program Director Julie Walker, one of the happiest consequences of having development […]

L-TV 110 A Librarian’s Must Read List New!
Deborah Barchi and Fran Farrell Bergeron discuss the wonderful but sometimes difficult titles that just might be on your “Must Read List.”
Sunday, Dec. 24 - 12:30 pm
Monday, Dec. 25 - 2:00 pm
Wednesday, Dec. 27 - 9:00 pm
L-TV 96 Talking with Robin
A book discussion with WHJJ’s Robin […]

It’s that time of year again, time to look back on events that have shaped the past year. A good first stop for the ritual annual reflections would be LISNews list of Top Ten stories, with a few bonus items thrown in. And if you happened to blink and missed some of these items, […]

Yesterday I wrote about Google’s experimental searchmash (you can read more about this on searchenginewatch). It’s not listed on the Google Labs site, but there’s other interesting applications there, such as the Google Reader, Google’s experimental RSS reader which, though it has less features than Bloglines, is still pretty slick. So if you […]

If you went to the OLIS CE Spanish Language outreach course earlier this year, you’ll remember the presenters speaking about “stereotypes”. It can be a hard concept to define. This definition by Marshal McLuhan is taken from Holman and Harmon’s A Handbook to Literature. 5th Edition. Macmillan, 1986.

Stereotype: The metal duplication of a printing surface, cast from […]

Google has a new search tool called searchmash that “lets you search the internet in new ways”. Search results include a panel that has related images, blog posts, videos, Wikipedia articles and maps as appropriate. There is also a panel for user input, allowing users to respond directly on the results page as to […]

Should library personnel be included in emergency planning and exercises?  Librarians have become Critical Connectors for residents and even emergency personnel during times of emergencies and disasters.  And during the first rush to sign up for Medicare Part D, many seniors turned to libraries for assistance. This month’s Governing magazine takes a look at librarians […]

Share your public access computing challenges and successes at the MaintainIT Project, a new online community for promoting sustainable best practices and models of technical support for public libraries. The Project will be collecting ideas and stories about public access computing, and will identify best practices and distribute a series of guides for specific types […]