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	<title>Thoughts from Carl Grant, a long-time participant in library automation.</title>
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		<title>Join us at ALA and learn about open source solutions..</title>
		<link>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/38</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Federated Search/ Metasearch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Libraries - General]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[open source software]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Universal Search Solution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, we at CARE Affiliates are joining with Index Data to offer a series of educational sessions in our booth at ALA. The Index Data/CARE booth will be #466 in the Anaheim Convention Center.
It is important to understand that these seminars are truly intended to be educational in nature, not product sales sessions.  They&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking into the future of metasearch..</title>
		<link>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/37</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carl_grant</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Federated Search/ Metasearch]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Federated Search]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;Show me someone who doesn&#8217;t dream about the future and I&#8217;ll show you someone who doesn&#8217;t know where they are going.&#8221;

That&#8217;s a pretty well known saying about the future and one that is appropriate to a recently announced contest on predicting the future of metasearch, sponsored by the Federated Search Blog.

While most people live in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Executive summary - Why the myths about open source are just that&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/36</link>
		<comments>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/36#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carl_grant</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries - General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Library Automation Companies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Open Source Solutions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CARE]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Equinox]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Index Data]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ingres]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[LibLime]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[open source software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Relais]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I won&#8217;t claim there is anything new in this white-paper by Ingres, but if you&#8217;d like to hear what you&#8217;ve heard from the small open source vendors in the library market being said by a major corporation with thousands of customers, then you might find this paper provides some level of assurance.  (It could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open source is about the market having a conversation with vendors&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/35</link>
		<comments>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/35#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carl_grant</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries - General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Library Automation Companies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Open Source Solutions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[care affiliates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[enhancements]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ILS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[library automation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[microsoft]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[open source software]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peter McCracken]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[serials solutions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tom Chamberlain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One thing you can count on in reading blogs is different perspective.   So, today I read two interesting posts, both talking about open source.   The first, a blog by Tom Chamberlain, discussed some reasons why open source continues to have a growing presence in the software market.  I particularly found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving from &#8220;bolt-on OPAC&#8217;s&#8221; to &#8220;plug-in OPAC&#8217;s&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/34</link>
		<comments>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/34#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carl_grant</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries - General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[aquabrowser]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bolt-on opac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ILS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Medialab]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[plug-in opac]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Taco Ekkel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[TALIS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at TALIS continue to come up with interesting topics for their monthly Library Gang podcasts.   This month&#8217;s subject was that of  Bolt-on OPAC&#8217;s those  search and discovery tools from both the open source community and proprietary vendors that get installed on top of the existing (and usually different) ILS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun shines the light on an important issue for libraries</title>
		<link>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/33</link>
		<comments>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/33#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carl_grant</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries - General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Open Source Solutions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Preservation and archiving]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[archiving]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Art Pasquinelli]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[digital repository]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[institutional repository]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Keller]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PASIG]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[preservation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[repository]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ST5800]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SUN Microsystems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems deserves some recognition and credit for the efforts in bringing attention to an issue that many libraries and librarians have yet to face; that of preserving and archiving all the digital materials libraries are rapidly accumulating.   Art Pasquinelli, Education Market Strategist at SUN, has worked closely with Mike Keller, University Librarian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our blog hacked&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/32</link>
		<comments>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/32#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carl_grant</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries - General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If any of you tried over the past week to access the CARE website and blog you were likely greeted with some error message indicating CARE needed to buy more bandwidth.   Well, not exactly.   What happened was a lesson for us and so we share it with you.
Last week, we saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RFP&#8217;s; a review..</title>
		<link>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/31</link>
		<comments>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/31#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 14:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carl_grant</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries - General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Library Automation Companies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[care affiliates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Federated Search]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Federated Search Blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Metasearch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[RFP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, no doubt about it, I&#8217;ve been neglectful of my blog recently.   It isn&#8217;t because I wanted to be, it&#8217;s just a matter of &#8220;stuffing 10 pounds in a 5 pound sack&#8221;.   CARE Affiliates has been a busy operation.   It also isn&#8217;t because I haven&#8217;t been writing, because I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OpenLibrarianship; A framework discussion</title>
		<link>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/30</link>
		<comments>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/30#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carl_grant</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries - General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Baby-Boomers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[extinction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gen-X]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Maurice Line]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[millenials]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MySpace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OPAC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OpenLibrarianship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Palinet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Palinet/PLN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Walt Crawford]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My respect for Walt Crawford is older than many librarians in the field today and therefore I&#8217;m pleased that he found my post about OpenLibrarianship interesting and thought provoking.    He reposted it on the Palinet/PLN site, did some polishing on it (Thanks Walt, although I did intend to run Open and Librarianship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Library 2.0 Gang Podcast now available</title>
		<link>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/29</link>
		<comments>http://www.care-affiliates.com/thoughts/archives/29#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>carl_grant</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Libraries - General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Aaron Swartz]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[care affiliates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Char Booth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[COD4LIB]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DLF]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[John Blyberg]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Library 2.0 Gang]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nicole Engard]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Open Library]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[podcast]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rob Styles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[TALIS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The newest podcast from the Library 2.0 Gang is now available at a couple of sites (Library Journal and TALIS. I&#8217;ll be adding it to the CARE website when I next update the site).
This was an interesting podcast to participate in with the topics largely inspired by the recent COD4LIB Conference held in Portland. The [...]]]></description>
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