Congratulations, and I look forward to meeting Katie at the KUDOS meeting. 2011/4/6 Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.a...@galecia.com>: > Hi All, > As some of you may know, I offered a $300 scholarship for one Californian to > attend the Koha Conference to be held in Madison, Wisconsin on May 2-3, > 2011. The person selected is Katie Aust, a Library Technician at the New > Haven Unified School District. > The District has been on Koha for only one year. Katie was hired in November > and it is her job to maintain the Koha system. Koha is used by 12 schools > including 2 high schools, 2 middle schools, 7 elementary schools and an > adult and student support center. Most of these locations have libraries > (aka media support centers) which are supported by 11 School Librarians > (aka Media Support Specialists). These 11 Media Support Specialists as well > as the 13,014 students in the District rely on Katie and the Koha system. > At the conference, Katie hopes to connect with other members of the Koha > community, to learn ways to customize Koha to better address the needs of > each school, to learn about customizing the OPAC tag clouds, reviews, book > lists and recommendations, and to bring back SQL reports they can use to get > useful statistics. > Katie is also a library student and she reports that Koha users are not > common in my classes and she is excited to bring her knowledge of Koha and > open-source technologies to her fellow classmates. > To those of you attending Koha, I hope you will give Katie a warm welcome to > the community (I know you will). Congratulations Katie, I'm delighted > you'll be able to attend. > Lori > > On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.a...@galecia.com> > wrote: >> >> Greetings All, >> I am offering a $300 scholarship to one person to attend the Koha Users >> and Developers Meeting to be held in Madison, WI on May 2-3, 2011. If you >> book a flight by April 10th, this should cover your airfare. >> >> If you are new to Koha or are thinking about Koha, this is a great way to >> make great strides in learning more about Koha and the community of users >> and service providers that are associated with it. It's also always very >> exciting and inspiring to meet other library people are have taken this step >> into the world of an open source ILS. >> If you can take advantage of this offer, please email me off-list. >> Assuming more than one person will apply, I'll need to choose just one >> person. So, please pitch me the reason I should choose you! I really hope >> someone from California can make it to the conference. I'll be there for >> sure. >> Lori >> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >> Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant >> The Galecia Group // www.galecia.com >> (707) 763-6869 // lori.a...@galecia.com >> Specializing in open source ILS solutions, RFID, filtering, >> workflow optimization, and materials handling >> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > >
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