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

future

• Researching 3 libraries in Putnam County, N.Y. in upscale districts, the 3 libraries had Openoffice.org, Firefox and Gimp installed. Further research in under privileged areas will be done. Visited private library which relies on Donations in Cold Springs, NY. Had no FOSS installed and where extremely receptive to the CD idea.

• how can we expand the idea to more libraries, and which are the best to target
• school integration? k-12, universities?