Library Geeks 009 - eIFL-FOSS

Bess Sadler [1], Erik Hatcher [2], and Art Rhyno [3] joined me to discuss the recent eIFL-FOSS [4] meeting they attended in Cupramontana, Italy. Bess, Erik, and Art have each done fascinating work in the past and are involved in many exciting projects today. We discussed many of these and how they led to their respective involvement in eIFL, and what the goals and next projects for eIFL-FOSS will be.

Bess also interviewed many other meeting attendees, and those interviews are included as well. I hope you'll agree that hearing straight from this diverse, dispersed community of library supporters is a unique opportunity to get a sense of both the scale of work that needs to be done to improve libraries everywhere, and of the enormous opportunities available to us now.

Show notes include:

• Visit the eIFL home page [5]
• NGO-in-a-box [6]
• Erik's books on Amazon.com [7]
• Art's book on Amazon.com [8]
• See Collex [9] in action and visit the Collex blog [10]
• Read up on Solr [11]
• Attend the Solr workshop/preconference at code4lib 2007 [12]

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