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18 December 2008
Library 2.0 Gang 12/08: A look forward in to 2009

Festive holiday time is a good time to look back at the year almost ended and to then attempt to predict what will be in the next year. It’s no different for the Library 2.0 Gang. In this month’s show Talin Bingham, Carl Grant, Nicole Engard and John Read More...

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10 September 2008
Library 2.0 Gang 09/08: System Procurement

All are agreed that the purchasing of a library system is not an insignificant undertaking, but in these times of rapidly changing 2.0 technology and open source systems, are the current procurement processes still fit for purpose? To help with the discussion Read More...

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15 August 2008
Library 2.0 Gang 08/08: Open Source Systems

Open Source Software has been around for many years. Open Source components have been used to develop library systems since the late 1990’s. Koha , acknowledged as the first fully open source library system was launched by its New Zealand based developers Read More...

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08 July 2008
Library 2.0 Gang 07/08: ALA - Anaheim

22,000 Librarians congregated in Anaheim California between June 26th and July 2nd for the American Library Association 2008 Annual Conference and Exhibition . With over 300 educational programs, over 2000 committee meetings and events, the exhibition, Read More...

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