Concurrent 4A: The Extensible Library: Library 2.0 and Patron 2.0

Rick Anderson is Director of Resource Acquisition for the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals and the advisory boards of several major publishers. His book, Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians, was published in 2004 by Neal-Schuman.

Matt joined Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in October 2004 and is currently the Executive Director, Cooperative Collection Services with responsibility for Resource Sharing section, WorldCat Content Services, and Business Intelligence Services.

Prior to joining OCLC, Matt worked for Fretwell-Downing Informatics (FDI) for 4 years and Geac Computers for 7 years. In both companies he was involved with increasing levels of responsibility for product direction and creation. His final position at Geac was Global Product Manager for the Library Division and at FDI served as Executive Vice President for the US subsidiary.

Matt has a good foundation in this field starting with his work as a cataloguer at the BL Fisher Library in 1980. During this period, he was involved in the early days of automation first using the OCLC cataloguing system, and later writing a grant to create the first COM-Cat for the BL Fisher Library. Matt continued his interest in automation for the library world working for Durham County Council and the Coastal Plain Regional Library – the latter receiving a Governors Award for Technical Excellence in 1992.

Matt graduated with an MSLS from the University of Kentucky in 1978 and an MA Religion from Asbury Theological Seminary in 1980. He has been an active member of various NISO committees.

In the year 2000, Lori Ayre left her Director of Technology job behind to provide technology guidance to the institution she so valued – the library. She started up a consulting business called The Galecia Group.

As a national consultant, Lori has worked with a wide variety of city and county libraries as well as consortia and other organizations that support libraries. She specializes in resource sharing and delivery, Internet filters, RFID, all things 2.0, and public access computing.

Her experience as a manager of people and technology provided her with an appreciation for the effect of change on people, and when and how to select and introduce technology to yield the best results.

She is an inspirational speaker and writer who brings her Midwestern practicality together with her dry sense of humor to nudge her colleagues out of their ruts and open their minds to new ideas.

In addition to consulting with libraries, Ayre teaches half day and full day workshops, and presents and produces webcasts. She maintains her own weblog, Mentat and also contributes to TechEssence. She has written pieces for ALA publications including Library Technology Reports and the Whole Library Handbook 4, and contributed a chapter to the Addison Wesley book “RFID-Applications, Security and Privacy.” Lori makes most of her work freely available on her website at www.galecia.com.

In 2006, Lori received her MLIS degree from San Jose State University after which time she pledged to spend more time riding her Icelandic horses and playing tennis. She has been moderately successful in this pledge. However, her commitment to the future of libraries and the changes that must be made to ensure that future keep her from taking too much time off.