Michigan Library Consortium
Evette Atkin – good contact for Manitoba, big issue is breaking out of the vendor / customer culture.
Evergreen conference
Just getting going here, first impression is the staff at equinox are painfully young-then literally the future is here.
Stand by me
First international evergreen conference, Lamar Veatch introducing.
I doubt you would feel this much positive energy at a vendor user group meeting. Take control. Partners with commercial, but does this remind anyone else of library automation in the sixties, but the big difference is the “environment” supporting open source.
150 people here
Joe Lucia, villanova university
Exiting turbulent challenging environment.
Mobile Libraries
For me the most useful part of the day was making contact with the Apple guy, and making contact with someone in Winnipeg who knows iPhone app developers.
