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Academic Libraries & IT depts in the Open Source Environment: the Management viewpoint. Lynn Copeland & Gwen Bird Simon Fraser University Library CLA May 25, 2007. Context. Library IT requirements Campus IT requirements Open source software requirements. Open source -- libraries. Oss4lib
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Academic Libraries & IT deptsin the Open Source Environment: the Management viewpoint Lynn Copeland & Gwen Bird Simon Fraser University Library CLA May 25, 2007
Context • Library IT requirements • Campus IT requirements • Open source software requirements Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07
Open source -- libraries • Oss4lib • Individual sites (eg Evergreen) • Sourceforge Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07
SFU Library Open Source development • Historically consistent • Good relations with campus IT • Funded in large part externally or by reallocation of software budget Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07
SFU Library Digital software(s) • BRS (commercial) • Canada's Early Women Writers: A Biographical Database • The Victorian Women Writers' Letters Project • BC Bookworld Author Bank • Citation Manager (OS) • Centre for Dialogue Online Library • HTML (OS) • Novels Written in English about Cuba/Cubans/Cuban Americans, 1851-2000: an Annotated Bibliography • The Lake District Collection • MySQL (OS) • The SFU Library Editorial Cartoons Collection • The Doukhobor Collection • Harrison Brown: The Sian Incident and Beyond • The Harrison Brown Collection • ContentDM (commercial) • Multicultural Canada newspapers • Dspace (OS) • Simon Fraser University Theses • Proceedings of the Canadian Critical Race Conference 2003: Pedagogy and Practice • Proceedings of the Northwest Linguistics Conference 2002 • The SFU Library Institutional Repository • PKP Metadata harvester + interface (OS) • Canadian Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada's metadata harvester Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07
OJS system requirements • PHP support (>= 4.2.x or later) • MySQL (>= 3.23.23) or PostgreSQL (>= 7.1) • Apache (>= 1.3.2x) or Apache 2 (>= 2.0.4x) or Microsoft IIS 6 (>= PHP 5.x req) • OS: Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07
Commercial ILS • Innovative • Sirsi/Dynix • Liber • Endeavor Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07
Library vs Campus IT perspective on open source software • Costs • Risks Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07
Questions? copeland@sfu.cagbird@sfu.ca Libraries & IT depts - CLA 25/05/07