This weekend I wrote a guest post over at the Open Source blog hosted by Howard County Library. Check it out.

Many of you may know me as the Open Source Evangelist for LibLime or the author of What I Learned Today…, but today I’m a guest author here and I’m going to write about a topic that I’m very passionate about - open source and libraries.

Whenever I teach open source to librarians I always start by outlining why libraries are the prefect breeding grounds for open source. What many librarians probably don’t realize is that the open source community actually shares a lot of the same ethics, ideals and characteristics as the library world.

Read more here.

This entry was posted on Monday, September 15th, 2008 at 6:49 am by Nicole C. Engard and is filed under Libraries, Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.