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For those planning to attend the DLF Forum next month, on Tuesday,  
November 10th, there will be a pre-conference event on Blacklight. We  
will be holding it at 6:30 PM the night before the conference begins,  
to allow travelers time to arrive and check in. (For more information  
on Blacklight see below.)

	What: 	Blacklight BOF / Show & Tell / Install & Hackfest
	When: 	Tuesday, 11/10 at 6:30 PM
	Where:  	Renaissance Long Beach Hotel, Corsican Room
	
	Of note:
		* there will be food and drink (thanks to CLIR's generous support)
		* developers should bring laptops, and there will be wireless

The agenda for the event will be determined by those who come. We will  
have a group of current Blacklight users ready to discuss/do any of  
the following:

  * provide a Blacklight overview, including features, advantages,  
demos, how to get involved
  * discuss (and help set) the feature roadmap for the project
  * help new users and/or the curious get up and running, including  
getting it installed
  * have a hackfest for those eager & ready to add new features

If you are interested and/or planning to come to the event, to help  
set the agenda and ensure enough food & drink,

**RSVP to both Leslie Eagle at CLIR ([log in to unmask]) and Tom Cramer ([log in to unmask] 
) no later than Monday, November 2nd**

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What's Blacklight?
Blacklight is an open source, "next generation" discovery application  
that works equally well for catalogs as for repository interfaces.  
First developed at the University of Virginia, it has since been  
adopted up by several other institutions. It's built on top of SOLR  
with Ruby on Rails, and it supports faceted searching & browsing.

Some exemplar sites are:

	http://projectblacklight.org				Blacklight home
	http://virgobeta.lib.virginia.edu/			VirgoBeta at UVa
	http://searchworks.stanford.ed			SearchWorks at Stanford
	http://nwda.projectblacklight.org/		Northwest Digital Archives
	http://www.agnic.org/search			Agricultural Network Information Center
	http://disco.library.wisc.edu/forward/ 	UW Madison union catalog  
demonstration

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- Tom

   | Tom Cramer
   | Associate Director, Digital Library Systems & Services
   | Stanford University LIbraries & Academic Information Resources
   | Stanford University
   | [log in to unmask]