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Cookies, karaoke and the quest for tuits

Out of all the pre-COVID activities we’ve been resuming over the past year, the one that has made me happiest is the return of in-person library conferences. There are so many benefits to online conferences, including their wide availability to people who otherwise could not travel to a conference, but there is nothing like getting together in the same space with professional colleagues to learn, problem solve, and catch up with one another. This time…

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Sustainability of library open-source projects

Most of my experience in open-source communities comes from the nine years I was involved in the Evergreen Integrated Library System project as the coordinator of the Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative (MassLNC). I not only learned to work with librarians, developers and other contributors to build a vibrant open-source community, but I also had the opportunity to meet with people from other open-source projects to learn about their processes and experiences. In almost every instance,…

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