Weekly Update – December 20, 2011
2012 EG Conference – Keynote speakers
I am delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the 2012 Evergreen International Conference!
Jono Bacon, Community Manager at Ubuntu, will kick off the conference on Thursday by sharing his passion for open source and his experience in working with open source communities worldwide! Being deeply involved and committed to the world of open source, Bacon will discuss the opportunity behind engaging the open source community. He will highlight the core areas of growing a community and will illustrate his discussion by using Ubuntu as an example and describe how Ubuntu has grown the global Ubuntu community. More about Jono
Galadriel Chilton, Electronic Resources Manager at the University of Connecticut and Indiana University graduate, will entertain and energize attendees on Friday by illustrating how important open source projects are to libraries through a fun and engaging comparison of libraries (as a habitat) and librarians/library staff (as a species) to an evolutionary biologist’s study of non-human animal survival. Through examples and stories, she will describe how survival of the fittest through competition is a misconception and that survival through cooperation leads to not only surviving, but thriving, and as some evolutionary biologists suggest, morality. Further, she will look at how integral – especially during times of economic collapse and deep budget cuts – cooperation is for libraries not just to survive but to evolve and how/why it is imperative that this cooperation move beyond sharing collections into the continued development of our tools and infrastructure such as open source systems like Evergreen. More about Galadriel
More information on each presenter is available at our blog.
Staff Training documents website update
You will notice that the Staff Training Documents website has been reorganized to be more intuitive. It is organized by module: Circulation, Cataloging, Local Admin, Reports.
Circulation committee minutes
Circulation Committee minutes from September 20, 2011 were improved and approved at the Circulation Committee meeting on November 10, 2011.
OPAC committee minutes
OPAC Committee minutes from August 25, 2011 were approved at the OPAC Committee meeting on October 27, 2011.