Table of Contents

This page features content from our presentations on Open Source software, links to articles we've written, and so on.

What We Use

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

More Info on our Koha Installation

PALA 2009 Open Source Panel

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

ALA 2009: Koha: The ILS That Keeps on Giving

John's presentation at ALA '09:

ALA 2008: What the User Expects and How to Get There

John's presentation about the Koha ILS:

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

ALA TechSource -- Open Source Software for Libraries

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/

Koha-Tools, Libki, and other Library-related OSS from Kyle Hall

2004 ALA Preconference: Open Source Internet Filtering

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.

CIPA and the Supremes Presentation

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

Article on OS at MPL from WebJunction.org

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

ALA 2003 Presentation

John's 2003 Presentation at ALA.

Open Source Filtering Article

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

Thin Clients @ Your Library

Presented by Cindy and John at the 2002 PaLA Annual Conference. http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/pala-ltsp

Open Source Thin Clients for Libraries

Cindy's presentation and handout for LITA National Forum, October 2002. http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/lita-ltsp

John's Open Source Presentation, ALA 2002, Atlanta

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

Materials from the Open Source Filtering Conference, May 2002

http://meadvillelibrary.org/os/filtering

Presentations from Library Open Source Conference, October 4, 2001

Conference Handouts