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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