The following Fall MNIUG 2007 presentations and addtional Open Source information is provided for you by popular demand!

Thank you all for making the conference a success. We had 140 participants--the highest attendance ever!

Please let us know if you have any questions, comments, or would like more information by sending an email to the MNIUG Steering Committee.

      Innovative:

• ENCORE.
• ERM
• Research Pro
• WebBridge

         KohaZoom:

• John Stromquist's presentation "Waldo Open Source ILS."
• Joshua Ferraro's presentation, " Open Source Library Automation, All Grown Up," from our Spring 2007 MNIUG conference.
• LibLime at http://liblime.com.
  • Go to LibLime's KohaZoom product.
• Check out the playground at http://liblime.com/demos.
• KohaZOOM has Cataloging, Circulation, OPAC, Acquisitions, Serials, and currently developing an ILL module. Koha ZOOM incorporates open source Zebra software, enabling Boolean searching, relevance ranking, faceted searching, and so on.
• LibLime offers hosted and non-hosted solutions.
• LibLime Facts and Stats.
• MasterKey MetaSearch federating searching product demo.
• WALDO Consortium--John Stromquist, Executive Director.  Information about the consortium and their membership.  WALDO is moving from ExLibris to KohaZOOM.

Contact John Stromquist:
john@waldolib.org
p: (800) 326-6495 ext 3
f: (914) 729-1985

Contact Joshua Ferraro:
jmf@liblime.com
p:1(888)KohaILS

      Evergreen:

• Jason Etheridge, Equinox Software, Enhancement List Blog post.
• Tim Daniels, PINES Program Manager, Georgia Public Library Service presentation "PINES/Evergreen Migration".
• Equinox at http://esilibrary.com.

• Read the blog.  There's a tremendous amount of information about Open Source.
• Evergreen has a working Cataloging, Circulation, and OPAC module working and are developing an Acquisitions and Serials module.
• Equinox offers both hosted and non-hosted solutions.
• FAQ at http://www.open-ils.org/faq.php.
• Checkout the playground at http://demo.gapines.org/.

Contact Jason Etheridge:
phasefx@gmail.com
1-877-OPEN-ILS (877-673-6457)

Contact Tim Daniels:
tdaniels@georgialibraries.org
p: 404-235-7151
f: 404-235-7201

• Federated Searching:
• MetaLib
• SFX (ExLibris)
• Research Pro (Innovative Interfaces)
• 360 Search (Serials Solutions)
• Webfeat

• Digitizing:
• Content DM
• "ContentDM in the CLIC Consortium" by Linda Hulbert and Steve Waage.
• "Comparing Digital Systems in CLIC" by Linda Hulbert and Steve Waage.
  

Overview of Open Source:

• What is Open Source Software? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software

• Open Source Initiative provides information on the Open Source Development process and licenses at http://www.opensource.org/.

• GPL Licensing at http://www.gnu.org/.  Both LibLime and Evergreen use GPL Licensing.

Open NCIP:

• Open NCIP Project. The site not only discusses the project, but provides information of the current protocol. (Joshua Ferraro from LibLime talked about this at the MNLink User Conference Friday, November 2, 2007