http://www.librarian.net/stax/1868/learn-to-floss-your-library/ putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:56:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1868/learn-to-floss-your-library/comment-page-1/#comment-98928 Losing Sleep / Blog Post #1 Open Source in the library… Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:52:29 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1868#comment-98928 [...] I was browsing my RSS feeds today, getting caught up on all my back reading when I found this post from Sept. 29 at librarian.net. (Take a look at the powerpoint presentation, it gives a great rundown on what FLOSS is.) It’s great to see people talking about FLOSS. I’m constantly telling people about open source applications. (So far, for me, the big open source application winner has been Audacity.) The one criticism that I have about this post is that if you want people to take the open source leap, you should introduce it to them in small steps. It’s one thing to let libraries know about open source solutions for Windows, or Mac. It’s another thing to get them to drop their current OS and hop on the open source wagon completely (Linux). I think that might be a little bit too much of a leap of faith for some people. [...] [...] I was browsing my RSS feeds today, getting caught up on all my back reading when I found this post from Sept. 29 at librarian.net. (Take a look at the powerpoint presentation, it gives a great rundown on what FLOSS is.) It’s great to see people talking about FLOSS. I’m constantly telling people about open source applications. (So far, for me, the big open source application winner has been Audacity.) The one criticism that I have about this post is that if you want people to take the open source leap, you should introduce it to them in small steps. It’s one thing to let libraries know about open source solutions for Windows, or Mac. It’s another thing to get them to drop their current OS and hop on the open source wagon completely (Linux). I think that might be a little bit too much of a leap of faith for some people. [...]

]]>