LiveContent Resources

Groups

• OCLC
  • http://www.oclc.org/

• American Library Association
  • http://www.ala.org

• Library Information Technology Association (LITA)
  • http://www.lita.org

• Open Source Systems Interest Group (OSSIG)
  • http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litamembership/litaigs/opensourcesystem/opensourcesystems.cfm

• oss4lib
  • http://www.oss4lib.org/

• webjunction
  • http://webjunction.org/

• maintain IT project
  • http://www.maintainitproject.org/

• Linux.com
  • http://www.linux.com/

• information wants to be free
  • http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php

• Library Journal
  • http://www.libraryjournal.com/

• Librarian.net
  • http://www.librarian.net

• San Francisco Public Library
  • http://www.sfpl.org

• ALA Techsource
  • http://www.techsource.ala.org/

• ALA Information Technology Policy
  • http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/contactwo/oitp/oitpofficeinformation.cfm?CFID=91726038&CFTOKEN=13931461

• Consortium of College and University Media Centers
  • http://www.ccumc.org/

• American Association of School Librarians
  • http://www.acrl.org/

• american library online
  • http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/

• EDUCAUSE
  • http://www.educause.edu/

• SPARC
  • http://www.arl.org/sparc/

• coalition of networked information
  • http://www.cni.org/

People

• Jack Aboutboul - Redhat/Fedora
  • mailto:jaa@redhat.com

• Timothy Vollmer - Creative Commons
  • mailto:tvollmer@umich.edu

• Jonathan Roberts - Free Me DVD
  • http://questionsplease.org/freeme/

• Alex Choong of Innotech Resources Pte Ltd (worldlabel.com.sg)

• Simon Spero at Sun in North Carolina, who might be willing to provide server space to maintain a dynamic build system

• John Rutherford of LITA
  • mailto:jrutherford@wayne.edu

• David Bretthauer of LITA
  • mailto:Dave.Bretthauer@uconn.edu

• Carrie Russell - ALA Office for Information Technology Policy
  • mailto:crussell@alawash.org

Reading

• ALA public library funding & technology access study
  • http://www.ala.org/ala/ors/publiclibraryfundingtechnologyaccessstudy/pullibfunandtechaccstudy.htm
• public libraries and the internet
  • http://www.ii.fsu.edu/plinternet_findings.cfm
• http://www.infomotions.com/musings/ossnlibraries-workshop/ossnlibraries-workshop.html
• http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/14/1545216&mode=thread&tid=132&tid=151&tid=82
• http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=1216
• Article on Open Source in libaries by Gates Foundation: http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=734
• Abstract by Siobhan Stevenson, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Information Studies University of Toronto http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_5/stevenson/index.html
• information on licensing issues for libraries: - http://www.librarycopyright.net/

LiveCD Examples

• Debian Live - Debian LiveCDs
• KNOPPIX - Well-known LiveCD
• Slax - Slackware-based LiveCD
• Ubuntu - Popular LiveCD
• Free Me - Live DVD promoting free culture in the same way

LiveCD Resources

• Debian Live
• Live CD List - Long List of LiveCDs
• LiveDistro - Build Tools, Howtos, Releases
• Reconstructor - Remaster Ubuntu LiveCDs
• Wikipedia Linux LiveDistro Comparison
• Wikipedia LiveCD
• Ubuntu Customization Kit - Make custom Ubuntu LiveCDs
• Revisor - Graphical tool for creating Fedora Live CDs/DVDs/USBs and installation media