I am passing the along to the LoCo in case anyone is interested in working on this.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lance Albertson <la...@osuosl.org> Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:34 PM Subject: [linux] Fwd: Corvallis Public Library open source project To: li...@lists.oregonstate.edu I'm sending this here just in case someone wants a side project to work on for the good of the city. We don't have the resources or time to work on this but I wanted to pass this along here just in case. I also recommended she take a look at making this a Capstone project. Feel free to contact her directly about it. Cheers- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brown, Lindy <lindy.br...@corvallisoregon.gov> Date: Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:07 AM Subject: Corvallis Public Library open source project To: "la...@osuosl.org" <la...@osuosl.org> Cc: "Dunham, Charles" <charles.dun...@corvallisoregon.gov> Hi Lance, How are you? I know this email is a bit random -- you and I met at a Corvallis Beer and Blog from long while ago. At the time, I was working at OSU, but have since taken a job with the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library <http://www.cbcpl.net/>. The CBCPL looking to improve our library catalog <http://library.ci.corvallis.or.us/newcatalog/> via an open source project, and I thought of you and the OSU OSL as an organization that might be able to help (or at least point us in the direction of some folks who might be interested in helping us). We're a mid-sized library, and we have a lot of support from the community, serving over 85,000 people in Benton County. We have branch libraries in Monroe, Alsea and Philomath. We are forward-thinking, want to do big things and are big fans of open source. As I mentioned, we're looking to improve our library catalog. A few of my colleagues (Charles Dunham and Andrew Cherbas) have been researching an open source layer called VuFind <http://vufind.org/about.php>. It's the difference between a really plain looking catalog<http://library.ci.corvallis.or.us:8083/#section=resource&resourceid=4923742¤tIndex=0>and one that is more interactive<http://catalog.douglascountylibraries.org/Record/862902/Home?searchId=13702291&recordIndex=5&page=1>, like Douglas County Library <http://douglascountylibraries.org/>'s catalog. <http://vufind.org/wiki/installation_status> More importantly, it has the capacity to <http://vufind.org/wiki/installation_status>unify collections from different sources. Our method of including ebooks in our current library catalog is a hack; It’s rarely up-to-date and one has to click through to a separate website to check availability and so forth. Our ebook vendor will be releasing an API soon, which would enable us to integrate their ebooks in to a VuFind catalog. As we add new digital collections in the future, we would hope to integrate them as well. We’ve looked into this in a very preliminary way so far, but it seems that getting this to work would require:**** - Writing an ILS driver <http://vufind.org/wiki/building_an_ils_driver>in PHP for VuFind, so it can communicate with our Integrated Library System. Our ILS is called TLC. Though many libraries have implemented VuFind<http://vufind.org/wiki/installation_status>, no one has yet created a driver for TLC.**** - Customizing the VuFind interface to meet our needs, and branding it for the Library.**** - Integrating our Library2Go<http://library2go.lib.overdrive.com/0482A927-9C05-4885-80C2-5057619AA549/10/438/en/Default.htm>ebook collection in to VuFind using an API. **** I read about the OSL's mission and Public Sector Program and was wondering if any of your students (or anyone else, for that matter) would be interested in possibly helping us create code to implement VuFind as our library catalog? Once installed, we would support and update VuFund ourselves; we just lack the expertise for an initial implementation. This would be a wonderful service for the greater Corvallis community with a long-lasting, positive effect. Do you have any thoughts on where we might find the expertise to make this happen? Unfortunately, we have very limited budget, but we’re hoping we can find someone who would like to do this for fun or to gain experience. Thanks for your time and any advice you can share. We really hope we can find someone to help us! Sincerely, Lindy (and Charles)**** ** ** *Lindy J. Brown | Reference Librarian* Corvallis-Benton County Public Library 645 NW Monroe Ave. Corvallis, OR 97330**** 541-766-6793 | askalibrar...@corvallisoregon.gov **** ** ** -- Lance Albertson Associate Director of Operations Oregon State University | Open Source Lab _______________________________________________ linux mailing list http://lug.oregonstate.edu/ http://lists.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux -- *Benjamin Kerensa* *http://benjaminkerensa.com* *"I am what I am because of who we all are" - Ubuntu*
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