This well attended session featured Dan Hazen from Harvard University discussing the nuts and bolts of Harvard's open access policy. Unlike K-State's K-Rex, Harvard's institutional repository began first with faculty papers and is only now starting to address ETDRs. A
And now for some fascinating background that I was unaware of until the discussion. Harvard Libraries are comprised of 10 faculty libraries that function as separately funded entities not beholden to the larger Harvard Universities umbrella.
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Lisa Schmidt, the electronic records archivist at Michigan State University on “Digital Curation Planning at Michigan State University.” MSU has 33,000 cubic feet of MSU records in their archives and actively works with various campus departments to gain their content. The archives at MSU are a unit separate from the libraries. Funded by a grant, the archives sought to create a plan for digital curation of content.
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Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester
Jennifer presented of the eXtensible catalog's metadata services toolkit which is now available for release in modules.
The project is completely open source and a non-profit eXtensible Cataloging Organization is being created to support the products. The project has a new interface that is FRBR-ized, faceted browse, totally customizable and based on a Drupal framework.
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Making Tomcat Purr
Elizabeth Jones, Oklahoma City University
This presentation focused on how one goes about branding the OPAC for the Tomcat interface. It was also the second time in one morning I had heard glowing reviews of Firefox's Firebug application for working with WebVoyage 7. With the Tomcat interface, the model has changed for the files. Previously, customizations occurred in the opac.ini file. Now data is stored across multiple files. This makes having the right Web editing and file management tools crucial.
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This year's ELSUG (ExLibris Southcentral Users Group) conference was held at Midwestern State University in Midwest Falls, Texas. Two tracks throughout the conference were running better reports and how-to customize one's Tomcat OPAC interface. In order to maximize the number of sessions attended, a colleague and I divided the program and I attended mostly sessions on Tomcat.
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I didn't attempt to live blog yesterday because my typing on my ASUS Eee can be a bit iffy given the tiny keyboard. I've cleaned this up a bit but essentially what you are getting are the highlights of the session rather than a lovely, clean summary:
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Begg de Groff - keynote speaker from Howard County Library (HCL) in Maryland
- her experiences as director of information technology: how many $$ might be saved using
Open Source software.
HCL overview: 6 branches, 6million items circulated annually; 316 public computer (using Ubuntu platform); 400 staff comp (65% running on Ubuntu, which is a Linux software)
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