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Open Source in Academic Libraries and IT: A Management Perspective

Explore how academic libraries and IT departments navigate open source software requirements and relations with campus IT. Learn about specific software developments, digital resources, and system requirements. Gain insights into cost, risks, and funding considerations.

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Open Source in Academic Libraries and IT: A Management Perspective

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  1. Academic Libraries & IT deptsin the Open Source Environment: the Management viewpoint Lynn Copeland & Gwen Bird Simon Fraser University Library CLA May 25, 2007

  2. Context • Library IT requirements • Campus IT requirements • Open source software requirements Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07

  3. Open source -- libraries • Oss4lib • Individual sites (eg Evergreen) • Sourceforge Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07

  4. SFU Library Open Source development • Historically consistent • Good relations with campus IT • Funded in large part externally or by reallocation of software budget Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07

  5. SFU Library Digital software(s) • BRS (commercial) • Canada's Early Women Writers: A Biographical Database • The Victorian Women Writers' Letters Project • BC Bookworld Author Bank • Citation Manager (OS) • Centre for Dialogue Online Library • HTML (OS) • Novels Written in English about Cuba/Cubans/Cuban Americans, 1851-2000: an Annotated Bibliography • The Lake District Collection • MySQL (OS) • The SFU Library Editorial Cartoons Collection • The Doukhobor Collection • Harrison Brown: The Sian Incident and Beyond • The Harrison Brown Collection • ContentDM (commercial) • Multicultural Canada newspapers • Dspace (OS) • Simon Fraser University Theses • Proceedings of the Canadian Critical Race Conference 2003: Pedagogy and Practice • Proceedings of the Northwest Linguistics Conference 2002 • The SFU Library Institutional Repository • PKP Metadata harvester + interface (OS) • Canadian Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada's metadata harvester Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07

  6. OJS system requirements • PHP support (>= 4.2.x or later) • MySQL (>= 3.23.23) or PostgreSQL (>= 7.1) • Apache (>= 1.3.2x) or Apache 2 (>= 2.0.4x) or Microsoft IIS 6 (>= PHP 5.x req) • OS: Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07

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  10. Commercial ILS • Innovative • Sirsi/Dynix • Liber • Endeavor Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07

  11. Library vs Campus IT perspective on open source software • Costs • Risks Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07

  12. Questions? copeland@sfu.cagbird@sfu.ca Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07

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