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Latest Evergreen Release Candidate 2 Available

Evergreen 1.4 RC2

The latest release candidate of the new Evergreen release is available for download. Dan Scott provides a summary of some of the key features. If you are moving to Evergreen I suggest you start your testing here. UPEI was tempted to move to this release with out live system, but saner minds convinced me that we might want to wait for the production release. Schucks...level-headedness...

Scraped from Coffee|Code

The Value that Repositories Add

Les Carr Shows How to Grow a Repository

This recent post includes some great examples of how a repository can add extra value to researchers who want to expose/promote their research.

Scraped from Repository Man

WOW - OpenOffice 3 Sees Major Uptake

Over 10 Million Downloads in 1st Month

I think the numbers speak for themselves, whether it be providing a robust office suite for anyone who needs it, or making the future of document conversion better with a truly open office standard. OpenOffice 3 is a great product and has come a long way. I am particularly excited about the plugins for OO, including a postscript editor, Google Docs/Zoho integration and the ability to edit MediaWiki documents. We are also using a "headless" version of OO for back-end document conversion with our institutional repository and it is working like a charm so far...except for those pesky WordPerfect files...arghhh!

Conor's Comics #1

I have the pleasure of seeing my son Conor on campus at UPEI on a regular basis. He is a 1st-year student who is enjoying the stimulation of a university environment. He also enjoys doodling and exercises that itch by drawing a comic on my office whiteboard a couple of times a week. I look forward to walking in to my office and seeing his latest creation, so I thought I would share them via my blog. Here is the 1st one I managed to capture.

CLIR Report on Transforming Research Libraries

Audio and Slides from Recent Cyberinfrastructure Sessions

Some very interesting and topical sessions from the recent ARL/CNI Fall Forum. The sessions hit on a number of the key issues highlighted in the recent special Nature issue on Bog data, including how libraries can respond to the opportunity, how we educate the future data curation workers and more.