[Eg-oversight-board] Action required re: Evergreen Oversight Board Nomination

[Sharon Herbert]

Hi everyone,

I have served as Sitka Manager with the BC Libraries Cooperative since  
2007. Sitka is a growing consortium of 82 multi-type libraries at over  
130 locations in Western Canada, with a service area population of  
over 430,000.

Over the past 8 years, I've worked with the talented Sitka team to  
grow the services we provide to our members and to collaborate with  
the wider Evergreen community to improve and expand Evergreen  
functionality. We've partnered with several other Evergreen community  
members to provide funding, user specifications and software testing  
for several development initiatives including: KidsPAC; improvements  
to Acquisitions, Cataloguing and TPAC; the web-based staff client and  
more. Over the years, Sitka staff have contributed numerous bug fixes  
and developed new features including mobile PAC and recent Overdrive  
API integration. Sitka staff have also been leaders in writing  
documentation for Evergreen and we've shared our training and  
migration expertise with the wider Evergreen community. We also  
provide hosting for Conifer, a consortium of 19 post-secondary  
libraries in Ontario as well as a shared Evergreen training  
environment for students and faculty at three library schools in  
British Columbia. As the number of Sitka libraries have grown, it's  
been exciting to see many member libraries leveraging Evergreen's  
consortial strengths to allow patrons to seamlessly borrow materials  
across wider geographic regions.

I've seen the positive impact that Evergreen and a strong  
international community have made to library services in Canada and  
look forward to the opportunity to serve on the Oversight board to  
continue to grow and strengthen Evergreen.

Thank you for your consideration,

Sharon Herbert
Sitka Manager
BC Libraries Cooperative
https://bc.libraries.coop/
Quoting Ben Hyman <ben.hyman at bc.libraries.coop>:

> Hi all,
>
> Congratulations on your nominations to the Evergreen Oversight  
> Board! Three positions are open, and four nominations were received.
>
> With apologies for a short deadline, the nominations committee  
> requests that each nominee submit a brief biography for distribution  
> to the community as voting opens. Voting will open very shortly  
> after voter registration closes on Monday, May 11 and will run  
> through the 14th.
>
> Please provide your biography by ?reply-all? to this email, no later  
> than Sunday, May 10.
> Many thanks!
>
> Ben Hyman
> Executive Director | BC Libraries Cooperative
> ben.hyman at bc.libraries.coop | 1.855.383.5761 ext 1001 | cell:  
> 250.889.2738 | Skype: ben_hyman
> bc.libraries.coop | Twitter: @BCLibrariesCoop

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Sharon Herbert
Sitka Manager
BC Libraries Cooperative
Tel: 1-855-383-5761 x1013
Email: sherbert at sitka.bclibraries.ca
Website: http://bc.libraries.coop