[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Oversight Board Elections

Wed Mar 21 14:19:14 EDT 2018

> What an outstanding pool of nominees.
Hear, hear!


On 03/21/2018 02:14 PM, Ruth Frasur wrote:
> What an outstanding pool of nominees.
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:31 AM, Tim Spindler <tjspindler at gmail.com 
> <mailto:tjspindler at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Here are a list of candidates.  The candidates are listed in
>     alphabetical order along with their statements.  In the next few
>     days, we will be sending out emails to all who registered to vote
>     in the election.  I would like to thank all who were nominated and
>     agreed to server on the Oversight Board.
>
>     Adam Bowling- Technical Director, Emerald Data Networks
>
>
>     Candidate Statement
>
>     As an active participant and administrator in the community for
>     nearly ten years, I am thrilled at the continued development and
>     implementation of Evergreen throughout the world. I wish to be a
>     part of it for the next ten years and beyond.
>
>
>     Jason Boyer- MIS Supervisor, Indiana State Library
>
>
>     Candidate StatementI have worked in libraries since 2000 and have
>     worked at Evergreen libraries since 2008 when my library joined
>     the newly formed Evergreen Indiana Consortium. Shortly thereafter
>     I began submitting patches and have been a contributor since. In
>     2013 I took a position as the System Administrator for Evergreen
>     Indiana. Working on both sides of ILS management has exposed me to
>     a wide range of concerns from how to make the most of Evergreen
>     features at a single library to how to scale a system up to serve
>     over 115 library systems at over 160 physical locations. This has
>     given me a significant interest in the ways that Evergreen
>     performance can be enhanced while still adding new features.
>
>
>     Anna Goben- Evergreen Indiana Coordinator, Indiana State Library
>
>
>     Candidate Statement
>
>     I’ve been working with the Evergreen ILS since 2008.  At that
>     time, I was working as a Reference Librarian and was chosen to
>     serve as ILS Project Manager for my small public library when we
>     joined the newly formed Evergreen Indiana consortium as a pilot
>     member.  In 2013, I became the project director of the Evergreen
>     Indiana consortium, responsible for training, recruitment and
>     migration direction, event planning, committee coordination, and
>     policy management for all 116 of our active and 5 migrating
>     members.  I coordinated the Evergreen International Hack-A-Way in
>     2016 and 2017 and serve as a consortium representative to the
>     MassLNC collaborative development group. Through my roles over the
>     years, I have had the opportunity to become aware of the needs and
>     experiences common to front line library staff of all levels as
>     well as the administrative challenges of a consortium that play a
>     significant role in developing, implementing, and utilizing
>     Evergreen successfully in libraries today.
>
>
>     Debbie Lubenchill- Evergreen Coordinator, MOBIUS
>
>
>     Candidate Statement
>
>     I am a librarian and have been the Evergreen Coordinator at MOBIUS
>     since August 2012, where I help administer our Evergreen hosting
>     and managing services:  conducting trainings, creating
>     documentation, answering help desk questions, assisting with
>     system setup during migrations, and performing a variety of other
>     administrative functions.  Being a part of the Evergreen community
>     over the last five years has been a really important and fun
>     aspect of my job - attending conferences, serving on several
>     Conference Site Selection Committees, participating in the
>     Documentation Interest Group, and helping to plan the 2018
>     conference.  I have also served on other Boards and leadership
>     teams, both professionally and in my local community, and my
>     strengths lie in helping people communicate and work together,
>     problem solving, listening, leadership, and empathy. I am excited
>     to offer my strengths and skills to the Evergreen community and
>     look forward to serving you!
>
>
>     Meme Marlow- Director, Worch Memorial Public Library, Versailles,
>     OH  (COOL)
>
>
>     Candidate Statement
>
>     I am Meme Marlow the director of Worch Memorial Public Library in
>     Versailles, Ohio and a member of the Consortium of Ohio Libraries
>     (COOL). I have been the director of the library for 8 years. It
>     was during that time a group of library directors interested in
>     open source ILSs got together to discuss options for making this a
>     reality. In 2012 these libraries formed COOL using Evergreen.
>
>
>     Since joining in 2013, my main contributions to Evergreen have
>     been helping establish the consortium through serving on the COOL
>     board and assisting in the development of policies and procedures
>     that will be attractive to other libraries seeking membership in a
>     consortium. In addition, I am now serving as the president of the
>     COOL board and am an active member of the Evergreen outreach
>     committee.
>
>
>     Now that COOL is a healthy and thriving consortium, I am ready to
>     get more involved with the larger Evergreen community. I am
>     looking forward to the opportunity to serve and I think I can make
>     a valuable contribution to Evergreen community through service on
>     the Evergreen Oversight Board.
>
>
>     Jessica Woolford- Systems Manager, Bibliomation
>
>     Candidate Statement
>
>     I attended my first Evergreen conference in 2010. I was still in
>     library school and just beginning my professional career at
>     Bibliomation. It was my first professional conference, I was on a
>     panel, and I was terrified! I soon learned I had nothing to fear.
>     I have found the Evergreen community to be extremely
>     knowledgeable, supportive, and friendly. It has contributed
>     greatly to my professional development, as I have moved up to the
>     role of Evergreen Systems Manager at Bibliomation. In my career, I
>     have been able to see Evergreen from many angles, from the
>     perspective of the supporting the end users, and now the "care and
>     feeding" of the Evergreen system. I continuously look for ways to
>     contribute to the community. I have presented at several Evergreen
>     conferences and served as the Reports Interest Group convener. I
>     am grateful for the opportunities the Evergreen community has
>     given me, and I would be honored to serve the community in a new
>     capacity.
>
>
>     -- 
>     Tim Spindler, Evergreen Oversight Board Chair
>     tjspindler at gmail.com <mailto:tjspindler at gmail.com>
>
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>     unless it's really necessary.*
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Ruth Frasur
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