MLC Annual Meeting 2008

LC's Daniel Chudnov to speak at MLC Annual Meeting Oct. 3

Daniel Chudnov, Information Technology Specialist in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress, will be a keynote speaker at MLC's 2008 Annual Meeting, "Open Source, Open Libraries," on Friday, October 3, 2008, in Lansing.

Daniel Chudnov is a librarian and programmer. Before taking his current position at the Library of Congress in March 2007, he was lead developer for the Canary Database and unalog at the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, worked as a freelance developer and writer, and also contributed to several well-known open source projects for libraries, including the initial development and implementation of DSpace at MIT Libraries, the jake project at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at the Yale University School of Medicine, and a precursor to the award-winning Prospero project, the first widely-used web-based document delivery toolkit. He is a frequent speaker and author on technology and the importance of free software in libraries, and he started the oss4lib weblog and listserv in 1999 to promote the use of open source in our community. In January 2007, he started writing the monthly "Libraries in Computers" column for Computers in Libraries magazine.

Mr. Chudnov’s presentation will be followed by Michigan librarians highlighting their experiences with various open source software in their libraries:
Terry Robertson and Steve Sowder - Andrews University
John Rucker - Branch District Library
Mark Szidik - Michigan Library Consortium
Bill Ott - Grand Rapids Public Library

Agenda
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Program (includes lunch)
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. MLC Annual Meeting

Location: Lansing Community College - West Campus Directons
For directions, see: /workshops/viewloc.html?id=024

For further details and to register online, go to MLC's Workshop Registration page.

[29 Aug 2008]