So Open Office, I have an on again off again love affair with this program. Mostly because I'm shallow and think she's ugly, otherwise it would only be an "on" love affair.
I use Open Office in lieu of Microsoft Office because I do not have disposable income to put toward such wastes as computer software. I think its writing program works just as well as Microsoft Word, although I mostly just use it to view .doc files while I use Microsoft word processor to type papers.
I think that open use software is very much in the spirit of libraries. Free things that are good for everyone and convenient. Also, I hear that if we used open office instead of paying tons of money for Microsoft user codes we would save a ridiculous amount of money. I also heard once somewhere from some grapevine sitting little bird that there is open software that could replace millennium\OPAC. Now wouldn't that be nifty.
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"because I'm shallow and think she's ugly"...but she has a great personality! --Well, my love affair is "on" because she's been so good to me and treats me right and saves me money...As for open source OPACs, there are 2 major open source ILS systems currently in play; Koha and Evergreen. Also, Jimmy, the new Marmot exec director is listening seriously as we Marmots tell him that "the OPAC sucks" and we need a better one.
ReplyDeleteI think she's pretty. Scratch that--I think she's downright sexy.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't OPAC efficiency be wonderful?
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