LibraryFind news and notes

Couple of interesting news and notes for the LibraryFind community.

1. I am currently working with our first non-academic institution set to go live before the first of the year.  The Oregon State Library will be the first library to move to the 0.9 branch of the codebase (which means, I probably need to finish my optimizations and close the branch).  I'm excited about this for a number of reasons.  First, LibraryFind was initially funded by a grant provided by the State Library, so it's nice to see that investment coming back to them.  Secondly, it will give us a chance to test a number of assumptions (that I believe work in an academic environment) against a non-academic audience that is primarily interested in policy questions.
2. As mentioned above, the LibraryFind 0.9 branch wrapped up prior to the first of the year.  In the mean time, I will be posting a point release to the 0.8.5.x branch that will incorporate some of the optimizations that will show up in 0.9, as well as include one CONSTANT that was left out of the environment.rb.example file.  That will likely happen Monday.

--TR