Category Archives: STEM

Library news roundup: nexgen catalogs, institutional repositories, and more

robinna/ July 23, 2008/ software, Digital Libraries, Culture, STEM, semantic web, 3D, opensource, Gamification, Blog posts/ 0 comments

Well, since I have so many little library related tidbits floating around in my reader, I’m just going to do a roundup: Over at the shifted librarian, she has a nice blog post about the new startup project, bibliocommons @ the Oakville, Ontario library, to build a library catalog interface from scratch. The interface includes things like reviews, tagging, faceted

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opensource alternatives to common commercial products

robinna/ September 13, 2007/ software, publishing, STEM, CMS, 3D, webdesign, productivity, opensource/ 0 comments

Although the introduction of this article is overly simplified in terms of the changes in library technology (I couldn’t help but laugh a little in a couple of places) , once you’re past that, the rest is a good little overview of some of the more popular opensource products. I’ve hotlinked and listed the products below, the article gives a

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