Back in Butte…Humanities Montana says yes

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Ireland was great and now it is time to start working on the million projects that we have been funded for this year. The latest is the Digital Film Project for young adults (YAs). We are hoping to id and contract with 4-6 mentors and recruit 12-24 YAs to begin filming in December. The project is a documentary on the YA view of Butte as “place”. We will be looking at creating 12-14 5-6 minute short film clips string them together in so storyboard fashion that will hopefully tell the story of Butte through the eyes of the YAs (13-18 yrs) We have had a good response to the project with funding from Humanities Montana for honorarium and from NW Energy for equipment. Anyone out there who would like to work on this project or if you’re just interested in it, get in touch.

PNLA Links for Koha and CMS presentations

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Koha / Open Source Links of Interest

Lee Phillips

Butte Silver Bow Public Library

www.buttepubliclibrary.info

Open Source Living- this is not like Martha Stewart

http://osliving.com/index.php

Koha’s Homepage

http://www.koha.org/

Koha Members’ Wiki

Karen’s research on Library ILS and Open Source

http://dalziel.org/karin/publications-presentations/open-source-meets-turnkey-koha-for-software-liblime-for-support/

LibLime’s Blog

http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/archives/384

Koha 3 Fedora 9 install without internet!

http://krishnanm.com/khh/

Marshall Breeding’s 2008 report on Library ILSs

http://www.librarytechnology.org/blog.pl?ThreadID=102

CMS exploration

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Spent the day reading about and demo-ing Plone CMS. Pretty deep in code country, at least for me. The tree format is new for me but I think it would be very hardy and extensible. Tomorrow Joomla, it has some interesting features and plug-ins but it really looks like social networking software. I am planning on building demos for PNLA. So if you are gonna be there you can check them out!

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Koha.org gets new look with Plone CMS

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The header of this post says it all so head on over and check the new web site. The link is to the right —>

I love the Google map…but where is Paul Poulain?? I know he is out there somewhere!

Mouse over Montana, click and see how famous Butte is, woohoo!

Computers in Libraries 2009

This is a VERY post conference post. The trip to DC required a white knuckle drive to Bozeman from Butte in the dark on ice.  We arrived alive and dove right in to the OCLC breakfast that was a great introduction to what is coming from them in the near future. The conference gave us a real insight to the prevailing open source wind that is blowing. There were presentations by Eric Lease Morgan on OS options, Evergreen and Koha presentations and new dev. on content mnagement systems that will be the successors of things like WordPress. Danny from Howard County Library system is working on Maia CMS which has a great interface and lots of functionality even in alpha. Howard is migrating to Koha this year and he hopes to improve on Maia. It is available on Source Forge for those savvy enough to install from get.

Marshall Breeding of Library stats fame was a moderator for a track of presentations. Stef and I met Jessamyn West, a UW alum and librarian extraordinaire.

We did get to tour the DC area at night …in the rain… but it was fun and beautiful.

CiL was a great experience for a couple of Montana librarians, we even spotted Bret from Kalispell on the escalator.

at least it is Spring somewhere

Librarian’s Manifesto

The Open Source ILS Song

We did it… YOU can do it! Open Source!

WordPress and Koha Opens Butte 4 Business

Our WordPress homepage has recieved a lot of attention lately (8800 veiws since October 2008) and we are currently working with the BSB county community development department to create WordPress CMS for them to organize their information.  We hope to extend our CMS expertise to the county webpages making pushing infoomation easier and faster.

Butte’s OPEN HOUSE

Press Release

Oct. 10, 2008

Butte Silver Bow Public Library

Open House

 Come and Celebrate with us! Eat, Drink and Connect.

Butte Silver Bow Library is the first public library in Montana to go open source.

The BSB Public Library unveils the latest in free cutting edge technology for all at an Open House on Thursday Oct. 16, 2008 from 11 am until 1 pm.

 

A portable laptop lab provided by the Montana State Library will give the curious a chance to surf our NEW OPEN SOURCE KOHA online public access catalogue and our open source website built on WordPress.  A short feature film “mash up” introducing open source software and content management systems featuring Butte will be shown. 

The Butte Silver Bow Library in partnership with Advanced Wireless Technologies is excited to share our free open source experiences with the Butte Silver Bow community.

The Friends of the Library will provide finger food and refreshments and will be handing out “Keys to the Library” (8gigabyte flash drives) to our special guests.

There will be Wii gaming opportunities for all ages in the Children’s area.

 

Please stop in for a tasty tech treat. Koha, WordPress and Wii!

 

What: Open House 4 Open Source

Where: 226 W. Broadway and Idaho in Uptown Butte

When: Oct. 16, 2008 from 11 am until 1 pm

Why: To feature new technology, play and eat

How: Come as you are, everyone is welcome!

For more information contact Lee Phillips at 723-2138 or Kay Stark at 723-3361

 

And so it begins….

Today we finished up cataloging and ftp-ed the bib records to the Liblime server. Tomorrow we will review department punch lists to correct any issues or settings.  Wednesday is the first in house training in circ. We will review the client interface and everyone will be trained in circ over the next week. Friday our updated user records and circ records are loaded on the production server. Saturday we will start up Koha leaving one machine running Winnebago Spectrum as a safety. Monday the 29th we will be closed for the final test and trouble shooting. Sept 30 we will complete the migration shut down the Winnebago server and use the Koha client and OPAC.  We will launch the new OPAC and our databases on a new library website.  We are using a content management system called WordPress.  I will post the links to the new website and the OPAC on Monday the 29th.

SO! Take a look and see what you think! I will be at Chico for ASLD/PLD to present LibLime and Koha on Monday first thing in the AM so bring you questions.

Cheers!