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Up one level- Koha Earns its Stripes
- If you’ve been waiting for an open-source ILS that rivals the expensive proprietary systems in terms of scalability, stability, and features, this article is for you. We’re going to take a whirlwind tour of Koha 2.4, focusing on a sneak preview of Koha’s latest feature: the ZOOM Plugin.
- Thin Clients at the Meadville Public Library
- About 6 years ago, I was facing the prospect of replacing our largest library’s public Internet computers. They were several years old, and getting flakier by the day. At the time I was only maintaining our nine libraries’ computers part time while also doing the job of administrative assistant, so I wanted to find a way to make maintaining these computers less time-consuming. I was just beginning to learn to use Linux, and somewhere along the line I heard about the LTSP, the Linux Terminal Server Project. The LTSP is a software package that allows you to connect a number of thin client terminals to a central Linux server.
- Voter Services in the Library
- In this article, we’ll talk about how Wordpress– open-source blogging software– can provide libraries with an affordable and innovative way to offer voting information online.