Open Source Project at ALA Midwinter

[Dale Poulter]

Good afternoon,

If you are attending ALA Midwinter and are interested in open 
source development toolkits the OCLC SiteSearch Open Source 
Project Forum may be of interest to you.   Many libraries are 
currently using the SiteSearch package.  Last year OCLC 
announced that they will be discontinuing support for the product, 
but are working towards making it open source.  This meeting will 
discuss the project.




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OCLC SiteSearch Open Source Project Forum to be held at the 2002 ALA
Midwinter Conference in New Orleans, LA.

	Date:  Saturday, January 19, 2002
	Time: 1:30 - 3:00 pm 
	Location:   Embassy Suites, Lafitte II 

OCLC SiteSearch software will be demonstrated and the open source project
will be discussed. This forum invites current as well as interested new
users to attend and discover how they can participate. 

A FREE download will give you the tools to:

* Offer a virtual catalog that brings a region's resources together without
replicating catalog records 
* Create unique web resources with the material only your library has -
everything from community information to digital objects, including sound
and video files 

OCLC will make the full java source code to SiteSearch, along with
supporting documentation, available as an open source project by the end of
first quarter of 2002. The code will be freely available to any person or
institution for non-commercial purposes only.  The SiteSearch open source
community will determine the future direction of the product and control the
design of the software to meet rapidly changing needs.

Please RSVP your attendance to becky_hawk at oclc.org.

For more information please contact:

	Stephanie Napier-Tyree
	OCLC SiteSearch 
	napierts at oclc.org       
	614-761-5229 ph
	800-848-5878 ext 5229 Toll-Free
	http://www.oclc.org/oclc/menu/site.htm