This month, Ibiblio is excited to announce Lyceum, a multi-blog derivative of the WordPress blogging system. Conceived in mid 2005, we are now ready to show off what we've come up with. To learn more, take a look at the new website, the demo site, the code, and the public project management site for bug and patch submissions.

Eric Raymond is an observer-participant anthropologist in the Internet hacker culture. His research has helped explain the decentralized open-source model of software development that has proven so effective in the evolution of the Internet. He is editor of "The New Hacker's Dictionary", the author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", and the creator of one of the Internet's most widely used email transport programs, fetchmail.

"When you want to know more but don't know where to look." Groklaw is a comprehensive legal news resource created by Pamela Jones. It is a journalistic enterprise whose aim is to unite people to work together knowledgeably to contribute to the defense of Linux, the kernel, and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Groklaw contains a archive of every significant element in the history of the SCO v. IBM, SCO v. Novell, SCO v. AutoZone, SCO v. DaimlerChrysler and Red Hat v. SCO lawsuits, including transcripts of the legal documents filed in plain text and transcripts of teleconferences and media events.

Media criticism, consumer culture, and Brooklyn curiosities. Stay Free! is a Brooklyn-based magazine and blog exploring the politics and perversions of mass media and American culture. They've been around for over 10 years, first in print as a magazine, and now online in blog format. Stay Free! welcomes outside contributors with ideas for the magazine and blogs posts.

One of the first library-related blogs, librarian.net has been providing links and commentary on library issues with a radical librarian perspective. Created in 1999 and maintained by rarin' librarian Jessamyn West, librarian.net has traveled to Australia, the Democratic National Convention, the chambers of the American Library Association Council, and library conferences across the US. Visit the site to learn more about open source library tools, digital rights management, the library funding crisis, and the USA PATRIOT Act.

The Real Paul Jones covers things that involve and/or amuse the Real Paul Jones. While other Paul Joneses get some attention, things having to do with the Real Paul Jones's geekish, poetic and arts interests are what gets the electrons. The Real Paul Jones's blogshares are going for a mere $29.15/share on June 1.

Jeffrey Pomerantz opened his blog by writing, "This will just be me taking the Lyceum software for a spin, as a way of getting some experience in the creation of a blog myself. This will just be me posting things that cross the ol. transom that seem worth posting." Since November of 2004, Jeffrey has been using PomeRantz to share diverse anecdotes not only across the field of library and information science but also on surprising unrelated topics...Star Wars...Moore's Law...the evolution of black squirrels...the artifacts at Oxyrhynchos....

What is the iBiblog? Simply, it is the staff weblog of ibiblio.org. Utilizing the wonderful Wordpress blogging engine, and maintained by Bret Dougherty, the iBiblog will comment on a loose collection of things that intrest us, events that impact us, and collections that inspire us.