Dan Scott


About Dan Scott

I'm the systems librarian for Laurentian University, with a background in information architecture, database software development, and project planning from spending 8 years with IBM.

Firefox 10, BibTemplate, and the catalogue – heads up

We discovered today that Firefox 10 (coming to desktops near you over the past few days) reacts strongly to some things that it always used to accept without complaint – which can end up in a degraded or completely broken catalogue, depending on how you’ve customized it with BibTemplate. Long […]


Evergreen security releases: 2.0.10 and 1.6.1.9

UPDATE: 2011-10-06 Unfortunately, we discovered a problem with the brute force fix that could lead to incorrect authentication failures. The problem was most evident in multi-brick environments, but could occur in any environment with more than one open-ils.auth child processing authentication requests. Consequently, we have released updated versions of the […]


Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy

Today, the Software Freedom Conservancy welcomes the Evergreen project as its newest member. Evergreen joins twenty-six other Conservancy members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all Conservancy member projects. Conservancy and the Evergreen community, including librarians, developers, and documenters, are excited to announce that Evergreen is […]