It’s great to discover this experimental wikified version of W. A. Munford’s Who was Who in British Librarianship 1800-1985 (1987). As a statistician who has strayed into serving libraries, I don’t know many of the famous names and a lot of the online materials are from the US. This looks like a useful [...]

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Who wikis Who in British Librarianship
MJ Ray - Thursday 26.11.09, 07:16am
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US Defense or Sirsi-Dynix – which is more credible?
MJ Ray - Monday 23.11.09, 07:23am
Most librarians probably already know this, but maybe the programmers don’t yet.
A SirsiDynix Corp lobby paper against Open Source technologies escaped onto the internet. SirsiDynix is a competitor of our co-op with products that compete with Koha. They’re also interesting because Sirsi bought another competitor (Dynix), essentially stopped its product line [...]
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Final Decision Time: Koha Foundation Options
MJ Ray - Friday 23.10.09, 07:27am
Thomas Dukleth writes in:
“Remember to vote for your choices in the final Koha foundation forming election before the poll closes on the 25th.
Turnout in the final Koha foundation forming election is lower than in the previous preliminary poll at this point. This is the poll which determines our actual choice. The previous poll [...]
Koha.org Desires Poll Results
MJ Ray - Wednesday 07.10.09, 07:21am
Here are the results of the Koha Foundation Desires poll.
More than 75% of respondants support the Koha foundation/association doing these things:-
1. ensure the ongoing shared governance of the project = 32 out of 35 = 91.43%
2. owning koha.org = 16 out of 18 = 88.89%
3. secure the Koha name = 31 out of 35 = [...]
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Reminder: Meeting about a Koha Foundation
MJ Ray - Tuesday 15.09.09, 07:22am
A quick reminder about the meeting about forming a Koha foundation in a few hours. The agenda and information links are on the wiki. I’d really like to see everyone invoved in koha development there, or you could leave comments here for me to take to the meeting.
Someone will link a summary and [...]
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