Buzz - Vufind

• Adapting VuFind as a Front-end to a Commercial Discovery System

  Graham Seaman describes the adaptation of an open source discovery tool, VuFind, to local needs, discusses the decisions which needed to be made in the process, and considers the implications of this process for future library discovery systems.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 68

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne issue 68.

• Book Review: Practical Open Source Software for Libraries

  Muhammad Rafiq takes a look at a work on the open source community and open source software.

• Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London

  Anna Grigson, Peter Kiely, Graham Seaman and Tim Wales describe the implementation of an open source front end to the MetaLib federated search tool.