Dan Scott

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Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Dan Scott has been a systems librarian at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario since 2006. He contributes to the Evergreen integrated library system and maintains packages for the Fedora Linux distribution.
Dan's research interests include structured data in library system web pages, full-text search in relational database systems, and integrating open source software and methodology into academic institutions.
You can reach Dan at dan@coffeecode.net.

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Open source library system Evergreen rewards the community

As a systems librarian at an academic institution, I am a conduit between those who want to access the resources our library offers and my colleagues who describe the…

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denials

21 Apr 2017

3 open source code libraries to handle MARC-formatted records

And PHP at https://packagist.org/packages/pear/file_marc !

denials

21 Apr 2014

5 key insights on the transition from Windows to Linux

One more insight might be: <strong>Find someone you can lean on</strong>: a colleague or friend willing to share their own Linux knowledge can help fast-forward your own understanding, and it can be fun, too (especially when you hit a problem that <em>neither</em> of you can figure out at first!)