Building awesome library web apps with open source

Historically librarians have viewed themselves as information gatekeepers. But as users come to expect information ubiquity, librarians must learn to unleash, aggregate, and even create content and push it out by creating their own applications. Open source technologies offer the opportunity for librarians build useful web applications. Presenters will show real library applications created with open source technologies and the tools used to create them. You'll see how complex web design problems, technological limitations, and economic realities were overcome to deliver useful and awesome web apps.