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Edubuntu at Cass District Library, continued

09/27/2007 - 11:10 | Sarah Washburn
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I’ve enjoyed following Kevin Smith’s blog, as he explores and implements Edubuntu. We talked with Kevin not so long ago when his dreams of installing Ubuntu products were just that: dreams.

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Ideas a plenty at Plumas County Library

09/05/2007 - 23:26 | Sarah Washburn
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Today I spoke with librarians from the four branches of the Plumas County Library. Margaret Miles, the director of the library, invited me to speak at their all-staff meeting, and we shared a provocative conversation covering many topics, from lockdown software, to tracking public computer use, to low-fi PC reservation processes, to patron training.

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Let your curiousity guide you... toward open source

08/23/2007 - 10:02 | Sarah Washburn
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What happens when funds are scarce and librarians start leaning more into the techie category?

They get curious. And fearless. And they start using their information literacy skills to experiment with open source technologies to "squeeze every penny out of the machines we have," as Kevin Smith, from Cass District Library told us recently.

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