IL2007, Day 3: Building Web 2.0 Native Library Services

Casey Bisson (met him for the first time - nice guy!)
“Libraries are much larger than our books and our OPACs”
Catalog challenges:

usability
findability
remindability

We use Linux daily - it’s the dominant platform of most social web apps
IBM saves over $900,000,000 annually because of LInux
Scriblio.net (used to be his WPOPAC) - very cool. He’s making this easily available to [...]

CIL2006 Day 1: Open Source Software for Library Website Management

(Karen Coombs was the speaker)
summary - open source is cool!
sometimes it’s not free… there might be a licensing cost
still need hardware and time
advantages: change and expand on the source code if you want to, offers an active developer community - very nice!
Foundational Software:
apache, tomcat - another java-based web server
php, perl, python, ruby - open source [...]

Free PDF Converter - create high-quality PDF from any printable file type

Free PDF Converter - create high-quality PDF from any printable file type
Here’s another one - Primo PDF, also free.

PDFCreator - open source solution

SourceForge.net: Project Info - PDFCreator
This is extremely cool! I’ve not yet tried it, but - it claims to create PDF files from anything in Windows… for free!