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 VuFind
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+NOTICE
+------
+VuFind development has moved to GitHub. See https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind
+for more details. The SourceForge Git repo will be shut down as of August 26,
+2013. SourceForge will continue to be used for VuFind 1.x SVN development, mailing
+lists, news, etc.
+
 Introduction
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 VuFind is an open source discovery environment for searching a collection of