Dr Busiso Chisala, Technical Advisor to MALICO VSAT on the roof of Chancellor College Library, University of Malawi
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OLPC: open source, open access, open library - University of Windsor

Recently I had the good fortune to be invited along for a special evening celebrating, publicising, and enthusing about the One Laptop Per Child project organized by Mita Williams of The Leddy Library at the University of Windsor. I had been asked to speak on the significance of free software and to inform those assembled about the eIFL-FOSS program. A perfect opportunity for me to enthuse ...

Zotero - a FOSS tool for publishing and managing bibliographies

Zotero (http://www.zotero.org) is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension for managing and citing references and creating bibliographies. Zotero is the FOSS alternative for EndNote®, the product of Thomson ResearchSoft, a business of the Thomson Corporation. I tested Zotero on Armenian Libraries union catalogue, on the PLoS and Birmingham Open Access repositories, and on the Library of ...

ILS Migration - the long game

This past Friday, I had the good fortune to meet up with John Fink at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. John is Digital Technologies Librarian in the Mills Memorial Library at McMaster. Amongst his numerous responsibilities, 50% of John's time is devoted to managing McMaster's transition to a new open source integrated library system (ILS) – Evergreen. I wanted to discover ...
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Program management

The eIFL-FOSS ILS project coordinator is Tigran Zargaryan. The Southern African Greenstone Support Network project coordinator is Repke de Vries, and its regional coordinator is Amos Kujenga. If you have questions about eIFL-FOSS or one of its projects, please feel free to contact us using the following email addresses:

Tigran Zargaryan - tigran.zargaryan[at]eifl.net
Repke de Vries - repke.devries[at]eifl.net
Amos Kujenga - amos.kujenga[at]eifl.net

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