Open Source Software for Libraries

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OSS4Lib Resources

OSS4lib Swicki: An tool to help cultivate the collaborative power of open source software to build free and customizable systems for use in libraries.
Open Source Library Systems: Getting Started: By Dan Chudnov. A significantly edited version of this article appeared in the August 1, 1999 issue of Library Journal.
Open Source Software in Libraries: A short essay by Eric Lease Morgan, originally prepared for a presentation at the 2001 American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco.
Open Source Software and Libraries Bibliography: Compiled by Brenda Chawner, School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, as part of her Ph.D. studies. It includes announcements, journal articles, and web documents that are about open source software development in libraries.
The Coming Revolution in Library Software: By David Dorman. Presented at the 71st IFLA General Conference, Aug 14-18, 2005 Oslo, Norway

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General OSS Resources

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution: A historical background must read.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Eric Raymond's collection of essays originally published on the Internet. These essays are evolving documents, into which he periodically merge the distilled results of feedback from people who write to comment on or correct them.
The Open Source Movement: By Richard Poynder. Appeared in Information Today 18(9) Oct 2001.

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The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

by: Eric S. Raymond

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Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (O'Reilly Open Source)

by: Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone, Brian Behlendorf, Scott Bradner, Jim Hamerly, Kirk McKusick, Tim O'Reilly, Tom Paquin, Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Paul Vixie, Larry Wall, Bob Young

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