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		<title>A note from the chair &#8211; Cloudbusting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A note from the chair on &#8216;Cloud busting: demystifying ‘the Cloud’ and its impact on libraries&#8217; With just under two weeks to go until our national &#8216;Cloudbusting&#8217; conference it&#8217;s safe to say MmIT is getting quite excited. With such a rich programme and so many great speakers it looks set to be a truly great &#8230; <a href="http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/a-note-from-the-chair-cloudbusting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmitblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10422491&#038;post=1627&#038;subd=mmitblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KohaCon 2012: open source, community and the LMS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Koha is an increasingly popular open source Library Management System (or Integrated Library System if you prefer) and KohaCon 12 was held at the University of Edinburgh from the 05 &#8211; 07 June, with an additional 2 day hackfest immediately following. This was a great event, jam-packed with information for both seasoned Koha users and &#8230; <a href="http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/kohacon-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmitblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10422491&#038;post=1407&#038;subd=mmitblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Source news: FOSS4LIB launch and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January, LYRASIS Technology Services  launched FOSS4LIB.org, a website to provide guidance to the library community about free/open source software (FOSS). The site already hosts an impressive registry of open source software as well as &#8216;decision-making tools&#8216; to help when considering making the move away from proprietary software.There&#8217;s more content being added all the time &#8230; <a href="http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/open-source-news/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmitblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10422491&#038;post=1219&#038;subd=mmitblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coding for Librarians : Applied knowledge is the best kind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been an impressive amount of librarian chatter about Code Year, a new initiative from the people behind Codeacademy. Codeacademy offer free introductory programming tutorials using JavaScript as the language of choice and it looks like this is also the approach Code Year will take. Discussion has already started on Twitter (hashtag #libcodeyear or #catcode) &#8230; <a href="http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/coding-for-librarians-applied-knowledge-is-the-best-kind/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmitblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10422491&#038;post=1185&#038;subd=mmitblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Battle of the CMSs: Drupal for libraries</title>
		<link>http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/battle-of-the-cmss-drupal-for-libraries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second part of our Battle of the Content Management Systems series, looking at library-specific tools and implementations of CMSs. You can catch up with part one, WordPress plugins and tools. While WordPress offers a welcome simplicity in both setup and management, Drupal throws simplicity to the wind and offers instead a ridiculous level &#8230; <a href="http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/battle-of-the-cmss-drupal-for-libraries/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmitblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10422491&#038;post=1153&#038;subd=mmitblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Library news: a place to discuss the latest from the library world</title>
		<link>http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/library-news-a-place-to-discuss-the-latest-from-the-library-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Library news is a relatively new website based on the popular technology site, Hacker News (and using the same Open Source software; it&#8217;s like Hacker News but blue). It&#8217;s a place that you can post and discuss news stories, blogs and other websites of interest to the library world. Library News was developed by the &#8230; <a href="http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/library-news-a-place-to-discuss-the-latest-from-the-library-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmitblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10422491&#038;post=1148&#038;subd=mmitblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About the Koha decision, open source and trademarks</title>
		<link>http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/about-the-koha-trademark-decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have seen the tweets or emails circulating asking for help for the Horowhenua Library Trust as they fight to keep the right to use the name &#8216;Koha&#8217; for the library system they developed and have worked on for the past 12 years. Koha is a Te Reo Maori word which you can read &#8230; <a href="http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/about-the-koha-trademark-decision/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmitblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10422491&#038;post=1138&#038;subd=mmitblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Koha 3.4.0 &#8211; major upgrade for Koha open source library software</title>
		<link>http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/koha-3-4-0-major-upgrade-for-koha-open-source-library-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new major release of the Koha open source library management system is now available. Koha 3.4.0 includes some pretty major changes to the underlying architecture with a shift to Template::Toolkit for templating and a range of new features &#8212; including some pretty exciting updates for the OPAC. You can read more about this version &#8230; <a href="http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/koha-3-4-0-major-upgrade-for-koha-open-source-library-software/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmitblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10422491&#038;post=807&#038;subd=mmitblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grant awarded for eXtensible Catalog Organization Metadata Services Toolkit</title>
		<link>http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/grant-for-metadata-services-toolkit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The eXtensible Catalog Organization (XCO) has announced a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further develop the Metadata Services Toolkit (MST). The foundation awarded $100,000 to the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) at the University of Illinois to continue work on  the MST. eXtensible Catalog is a collection of &#8230; <a href="http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/grant-for-metadata-services-toolkit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmitblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10422491&#038;post=803&#038;subd=mmitblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Favourite new website: Library Hackers Unite!</title>
		<link>http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/favourite-new-website-library-hackers-unite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s only been around for a month or so, but I&#8217;m really liking libraryhacker.org, a blog for those on the more hacky side of things (system admins, programmers and the like). It&#8217;s a group blog too which helps ensure a healthy range of views and topics.  So far some of the things they&#8217;ve covered are OverDrive, &#8230; <a href="http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/favourite-new-website-library-hackers-unite/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mmitblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10422491&#038;post=797&#038;subd=mmitblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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