This week we welcomed over 50 of our customers from libraries across the UK and beyond to London for a packed day of #opensource library updates, shared learning and networking. Every year the event makes us so proud of the library community we get to be a part of with our customers!

Lauren (@purton.bsky.social) and Helen are kicking off Green Libraries Week at the CILIP Green Libraries Conference 🌱 A fantastic event filled with insightful talks and practical workshops for positive change.

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We had an amazing time in Nashville for AspenCon 2025! There are many things to take away from the conference, but the power of Aspen Discovery as a tool to promote your library, extending the in-person #library experience into online environments, is one that cannot be emphasised enough!

Fiona @fionaborthwick.bsky.social and Lauren @purton.bsky.social had a great time last week at the London Libraries Conference in the beautiful Guildhall building. We spoke with libraries from across London about open source, Koha, Aspen Discovery - and how our notebooks and stickers are the best 📔

The London Libraries Conference is next Friday, 19 September! Catch up with Fiona (@fionaborthwick.bsky.social) and Lauren (@purton.bsky.social) at the Open Fifth stand 👋

AspenCon25 is landing in Nashville this October! Join in-person or virtually for a packed schedule of presentations, talks and workshops all about Aspen Discovery, the #opensource #library discovery layer. Registration closes 15/Sept. community.aspendiscovery.org/AspenCon2025 #AspenCon25

Subscribe to the Open Fifth mailing list to stay up to date with us and our #opensource #library news and how-tos! Our next newsletter will land in subscriber inboxes on 19/August 🗞️

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Next week Fiona & Andrew will be attending the Libraries Connected Annual Seminar @librariesconnected.bsky.social This year's theme is 'Resilience in an Age of Uncertainty'. Attending? Catch up with the team and check out our flash film 'Open Source Software: Developed with libraries, for libraries'

This week the annual LibPMC (@libpmc.bsky.social) Conference is being held in Liverpool. The conference is a fantastic learning, sharing and networking event suitable for all library sectors, collections and archives. Will you be attending? Check in with Sam at the Open Fifth stand!

Fiona, Helen and @purton.bsky.social had a fantastic time at the @cilip.bsky.social Supplier Showcase in London, speaking with library representatives throughout the UK and beyond, catching up with former colleagues, and admiring the beautiful The Law Society Hall. Thank you for another great event!

Here's your pathway to find Fiona, Helen & Lauren (@purton.bsky.social) at the @cilip.bsky.social Supplier Showcase today in London! We're at stand 12, showing off the fantastic open source library software we implement and support, and services we provide to libraries throughout the UK and beyond.

Sadly not available for streaming in the UK, but looking forward to seeing reviews and write-ups of this new @pbs.org documentary ‘Free for all: The public library’ which premiered today, available here www.pbs.org/independentl...
If you have access to stream it, share your thoughts 💭

We hope to see you this Wednesday (30 April) at the CILIP Supplier Showcase. The Open Fifth team will be there showing off Koha LMS, Aspen Discovery, Metabase analytics, and our new name! There's still time to book a 1:1 appointment, or simply pop over to our stand on the day.
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It’s World Book and Copyright Day (@unesco.org) today. How will you be marking the occasion? 📚

Lauren (@purton.bsky.social) at Open Fifth is feeding two birds with one scone via ‘Who owns this sentence? A history of copyrights and wrongs’ by Bellos and Montagu (2024)

Catch the Open Fifth team at #LILAC25 @lilacconf.bsky.social! Sam and Helen are having fun sharing what we do and our new name with academic library staff from the UK and beyond. Come and say hi, we're here until Wednesday 👋

We're looking forward to visiting Cardiff next week for the fantastic @lilacconf.bsky.social #LILAC25, The Information Literacy Conference 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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