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Belated followup, we have posted a YouTube video of this event. http://www.library.vcu.edu/blog/news/2013/01/video-library-technology-leade.html thanks, Jimmy On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Jimmy Ghaphery <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > -- Jimmy Ghaphery Head, Library Information Systems VCU Libraries 804-827-3551