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+Local VuFind configurations go here.  You can copy defaults from /config/vufind.
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diff --git a/local/harvest/README.txt b/local/harvest/README.txt
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+OAI-PMH Metadata will be harvested to this directory when the VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR
+environment variable is properly configured.
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