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Please see the announcement below for the event on January 9th which will also be streamed. thanks, Jimmy * 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/> -- Jimmy Ghaphery Head, Library Information Systems VCU Libraries 804-827-3551