Hi All,<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Lori</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Lori Bowen Ayre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lori.ayre@galecia.com">lori.ayre@galecia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br clear="all">Greetings All,<div><br></div><div>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.<br>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><div>Lori</div><div><br></div><div>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=</div><div><div>Lori Bowen Ayre // Library Technology Consultant</div><div>The Galecia Group // <a href="http://www.galecia.com/" target="_blank">www.galecia.com</a></div>
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