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Get Groovy at Your Public Library, Amy Begg De Groff and Luis Salazar
1 Mar 07
Get Groovy at Your Public Library
Amy Begg De Groff and Luis Salazar
Howard County Library, Maryland
http://www.hclibrary.org/
Linux for public access computers one of the best things they’ve ever done
300 public computers
used Groovix flavour of Linux (built on Ubuntu)
early iteration in Lumix
– no longer need to be a geek to get it to work
browser-based
– no login needed
– rewrite firefox history etc. on close and reopen
– open documents in Open Office; originally no support for authoring own docs
– no time limits for users
q. regarding patron expectations for MS software
– Groovix runs Open Office 2.0; installed update overnight and patrons just came in and started using
– LS couldn’t help pointing out how much he hates MS for what they’ve done to computer science and the internet
– did about 6 months training for info desk people regarding OSS and Linux, but very few problems arise
Posted by pzed on March 1, 2007 at 12.41pm
Categories: code4lib 2007, conferences, libraries
