Talking with Talis :: Bess Sadler talks about eIFL and Library-in-a-box

Originally posted by Talking with Talis on April 25, 2007.

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Bess Sadler of the The University of Virginia Library, about her involvement with eIFL and the Library-in-a-box project.

Library-in-a-box is the first project of the Free and Open Source Software division of eIFL. It seeks to enable the development and use of Open Source Library Systems in developing and transition countries.
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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

• The University of Virginia Library
• eIFL.net
• eIFL-FOSS
• Open Society Institute & Soros Foundations Network
• Tactical Technology Collective
• Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project, Karl Fogel
• Koha Open Source ILS
• Evergreen Open Source ILS

Code4Lib 2007 :: Bess Sadler and Tigran Zargaryan - Library-in-a-Box

Presentation by Bess Sadler and Tigran Zargaryan at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens, GA on March 1, 2007.

Libraries in developing countries have difficulty implementing and supporting commercial ILS systems. Poor support for internationalized interfaces and expensive software licensing fees contribute to an increasingly unsupportable situation in libraries around the world. Electronic Information for Libraries is currently planning the development of "Library-in-a-Box," an open-source, fully internationalized integrated library system, designed to be easy to install and support, and with next-generation OPAC features like faceted browsing. Library-in-a-box will build on the work already done by evergreen and koha. This talk will discuss the current state and future plans of this project.

Play talk on Odeo.

Video available.

Dan Chudnov :: Library Geeks 009 - eIFL-FOSS

Originally posted by Dan Chudnov on December 10, 2006.

Bess Sadler, Erik Hatcher, and Art Rhyno joined me to discuss the recent eIFL-FOSS 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
• NGO-in-a-box
• Erik's books on Amazon.com
• Art's book on Amazon.com
• See Collex in action and visit the Collex blog
• Read up on Solr
• Attend the Solr workshop/preconference at code4lib 2007