Please see the announcement below for the event on January 9th which will
also be streamed.
thanks,
Jimmy
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Library technology-science leaders to gather at VCU on Jan. 9 for "Moving
Up to the Cloud" event*
As one of the first major research universities to launch a pioneering new
cloud-resident enterprise library platform, Virginia Commonwealth
University is hosting an educational session Jan. 9, designed to help other
libraries around the world prepare for the next generation of library
technologies.
VCU Libraries went live in the fall semester with Alma, cloud-resident
enterprise library software from Ex Libris Inc. Alma is a unified
resource-management system that replaced the system VCU had used for the
past decade, which had also been developed by Ex Libris. VCU is the third
library in North America to have launched Alma.
Speakers at the Jan. 9 event:
- Marshall Breeding, the national authority on enterprise library
systems, is editor of Library Technology Guides and author of a monthly
column in Computers in Libraries.
- Mark Ryland, chief solutions architect for Amazon Web Service’s
Worldwide Public Sector team, began working with Microsoft Federal Systems
as a senior architectural engineer and has seen the industry grow up.
- Mark Triest, president of Ex Libris North America since 2010,
previously was president of Inigral, a social-media start-up delivering
applications for the education market. He also served as senior vice
president of global sales at Sunguard Higher Education.
- John Ulmschneider, university librarian at VCU, is a past president
and board member of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries and
leads VCU’s growing and innovative research-library system.
- Gene Damon, panel moderator, is director of library automation for the
Virginia Community College System, one of the nation’s largest
community-college systems. He is chair of the steering committee for the
Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), and brings a distinguished background
of leadership in enterprise library systems in both corporate and academic
environments.
An audience of Virginia and Washington-area academic library leaders will
participate in two panel sessions, which will be streamed live on the Web
and posted for viewing by interested parties worldwide.
Get details, register to attend, or watch
live<http://www.library.vcu.edu/events/cloud/>
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Jimmy Ghaphery
Head, Library Information Systems
VCU Libraries
804-827-3551
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