[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Oversight Board Elections

Wed Mar 21 14:39:18 EDT 2018

Indeed! Thanks to all of you for standing for nomination.

Quoting Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org>:

>> What an outstanding pool of nominees.
> Hear, hear!
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> 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
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>>
>>    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
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>>    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>
>>
>>    *P**   Go Green - **Save a tree! Please don't print this e-mail
>>    unless it's really necessary.*
>>
>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> Ruth Frasur
>> Director of the Historic(ally Awesome) Hagerstown - Jefferson  
>> Township Library
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> Kathy Lussier
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