Friday, November 9, 2007

Canadian Libraries

From my experience at Access 2007, I got the idea that Canadian academic libraries might be a little ahead of the curve in their incorporation of web technology, particularly open source solutions. This article (coming to me by way of the Frye listserv) reinforces this idea.

A number of institutions are looking at Evergreen, while there are some pretty cool digital collections systems put together from open source tools, especially the combination of Drupal/Fedora, which they are doing at UPI:

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