About Willow

Willow is a cooperative project of University of Washington Computing & Communications and the UW Libraries, with contributions by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Willow also includes code produced and copyrighted by Stanford University, Online Computer Library Center Inc., the World Wide Web Consortium, and Carnegie Mellon University. However Willow is freely available for non-commercial purposes (i.e. even businesses are welcome to use it, but you can not re-sell it without permission). The COPYRIGHT file included in the Willow distribution contains the details.

• Primary interface design team: Matt Freedman, Scott Heyano, Ellen Jensen, Bill Jordan, Debra Ketchell, Ed Lightfoot and Jill McKinstry. Design ideas and feedback from many many others.
  
• Willow architecture and Willow for Unix development by Matt Freedman, UW Computing & Communications.
  
• Wilco development by Scott Heyano, UW Computing & Communications.
  
• Willow for MS-Windows development by Pete Libbey, UW Computing & Communications.
  
• Java Willow architecture, user-interface design, and backend implementation by Matt Freedman .
  
• Java Willow user-interface implementation by Pete Libbey.
  
• The Z39.50 driver is by Bill Cattey of MIT, based on the Stanford University Z39.50 API library by Harold Finkbeiner and incorporating code from the Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
  
• The Willow help system programmed by Jim Fox of UW Computing & Communications. The original help bitmaps were designed by Debra Ketchell of UW Health Sciences Library and Bill Jordan of the UW Libraries. Help screens are currently created and maintained by the UW Libraries Documentation Team.
  
• Browse-list server programming by Leman Chung and Tom Unger of UW Computing & Communications. Call number browse algorithm by Bill Jordan, UW Libraries.
  
• The license server was designed and implemented by Steve Jones of UW Computing & Communications.
  
• User-analysis project coordinated by Debra Ketchell of the UW Health Sciences Libraries.
  
• BRS database programming for uwbrs driver by Dan Groves and Leman Chung, UW Computing & Communications.
  
• Willow Information Center graphics and Java Willow image buttons by Gigi Luk.
  
• Willow About Box by George Potratz.
  
• External support and mailing list coordination by James Ingram, UW Computing & Communication.
  
• Willow Information Center front page design by David Roth at index media

Questions and comments about Willow to: willow@cac.washington.edu