Well, a couple of us LibLimers are off to Washington D.C. for ALA Annual: Tina Burger, and I will be manning our portion of the Open Solutions Booth #2437. This year, we’re of course joined by our strategic partner Index Data as well a newcomer on the scene of Open Source in Libraries that we’re very excited about: Care Affiliates. Care was recently founded by Carl Grant, a seasoned automation veteran in libraries who most recently served as president of VTLS and Lou Leuzzi, former VP of Global Sales for Endeavor. From Care’s press release:

“[we] want to build a different kind of company, one that works as partners with libraries to jointly develop great ideas, provide needed solutions in an open environment and to do it in affordable and caring way.”

This is big news, folks! It’s amazing how quickly the library industry is shifting toward open source, I suspect we’ll see quite a few more companies form over the coming months and years with this new and exciting business model to fill the need for long-term sustainable solutions.

Of course, there will be the typical flurry of news releases at this ALA, and some very exciting announcements coming soon, so stay tuned :-).

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