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LORLS v7 now available

26 Nov 2012
by in LORLS

With great pleasure (trumpet fanfare not included) I can now announce the release of LORLS version 7. Key features include:

  • Import of Harvard citations from docx documents
  • Academic dashboard displaying usage data and other key metrics (see image to right)
  • Collapsible sections on reading lists
  • Improved support for diacritics
  • Allow students to like/dislike items on a list
 View of the new academic dashboard

LORLS v7 is available for download from this website.

Open source seminar

26 Sep 2011
by in LORLS, Other Systems

Jason and I attended an open source seminar from PTFS Europe last week. Conveniently for us the seminar was being hosted by the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University so all we had to do was depart the office, go up a single flight of stairs and we were there.

The were presentations from PTFS about open source in general was well as specific case studies about implementing Koha at Halton and Staffordshire University. The afternoon included a session about other products which PTFS are hoping to support including VuFind, Cufts, Godot and reading lists!

The original publicity for the event indicated they were considering adopting List8D but this isn’t the case as they’re developing their own system, after all in their own words “developing a reading list system isn’t exactly rocket science!” The system will be a hosted solution and so would be a direct competitor to Talis Aspire.

We look forward to seeing how their reading list system develops over the coming months.

LORLS v6 unleashed

10 Jun 2011
by in BibGrab, CLUMP, LORLS, LUMP, Project Management

In the early hours of yesterday morning LORLS v6 slipped its keepers (Jon and Jason) and escaped into the wild. LORLS v6 is described as flexible open source resource/reading list management system. Alongside LORLS v6 its three children (LUMP, CLUMP and BibGrab) also successfully made their breaks for freedom.

Members of the public are advised to check the following safety guidelines before approaching the beast.

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