Librarians Stake Their Future on OSS

Systems Librarian writes "Linux.com is running a story entitled 'Librarians stake their future on open source'. It details a group of librarians at the Georgia Public Library Service that have developed an open source, enterprise-class library management system that may revolutionize the way large-scale libraries are run. The system is Evergreen. The element of this project that has the participants especially excited is the speed. Previously, if users wanted changes to their systems, they'd be put into an 'enhancement queue'. Now, some features are implemented overnight. From the article: 'In fact, the catalog has many features and innovations that are lacking in non-free systems. It does on-the-fly spellcheck and gives search suggestions and adds additional content, such as book covers, reviews, and excerpts. The Shelf Browser shows items ordered along a virtual shelf built out of the holdings of the entire system. Patrons can create bookbags, which are lists that contain a selected collection of annotated titles. Bookbags can be kept private or shared as a regular Web page or as Atom or RSS feeds.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

Comments

Of course!

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Well, of course a group of librarians at the Georgia Public Library Service like open source!

Re:Look at the actual system!

[Anonymous Coward]

Overly Critical Guy [tinyurl.com]: I've backed up Stallman's position countless times

Why? How frequently does it get corrupted?

Re:Those Librarians must be gifted!

[grcumb]

Then one day Knuth suddenly appeared on the shelves.

That must have been uncomfortable for him....

Of course

[fishthegeek]

they were going to run everything on top of Ubuntu until it was discovered that a certain M. Shuttleworth did not return that copy of "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish" back in '89. If only he'd of used that $20 million to pay that stupid book fine instead of a weeks vacation in space!

MySQL batgirl password in source code

[Black Acid]

from /Evergreen-ILS-1.0.1/Evergreen/src/extras/import/d rain-batgirl-charge.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:database=reports;host=batg irl.gsu.edu','miker','poopie');


They're also using PostgreSQL, as described in the FAQ, but the FAQ has no mention of MySQL. Someone should probably change the MySQL password on batgirl.gsu.edu, if they haven't already.