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Butte’s OPEN HOUSE

October 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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

 

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