For a little workshop/presentation thing... This video is a little hard to see at youtube but it hopefully shows the connection between MARC and records in OCLC, Voyager, Google books, and more.

So you want to create an online newsletter, a magazine or e-zine? What should you use?There are many choices, some of which depend on budget size. My budget size= ZERO dollars.My investigation actually began in May with Drupal. These were reviewed as of August 2007.System requirements for most of these (but not all): Apache or IIS server; MySQL or another db server; PHP ; also: installation experience; templating; CSS, patience

• Drupal => Opensource. Largescale CMS (content management system); hosted on your server.

1. Have a vision.Check. I had that one a year ago (a regional arts magazine with topics both about art and by artists)2. Funding.The amount of $ you have to spend will affect everything else3. Hosting? Find a place to host it.I used some extra webspace I have.4.

This is a little bit old but still a good short overview of the new MS Expression Web Designer (think a much improved version of FrontPage):http://webstandards.raquedan.com/?p=107

I love alot of the new opensource stuff:check out GIMP instead Photoshop or Fireworkshttp://www.gimp.org/check out NVU instead of Dreamweaver, Frontpage,etc.http://www.nvu.com/index.phpcheck out camstudio instead of camtasia.http://www.camstudio.org/

So, I'm still investigating a CMS (Content Management System) for the libraries web editors. A CMS is just a easy way to get content onto the web, without having to do much in the way of design. Blogger in some senses is a very primitive (primitive because it is limited in what it can do) CMS. Unfortunately, my quick and informal survey of web editors has yielded, ummm... not much. A lot of them still seem to use Dreamweaver and templates (our current setup), a few Contribute, and then every thing in the middle, including (shudder) FrontPage.As for myself, I am in a similiar situation.