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Sarah Ludwig to Blog at ALA TechSource

Submitted by Patrick Hogan on May 11, 2012 - 7:03am

I’m delighted to welcome Sarah Ludwig to the ALA TechSource blog team. She will join bloggers Jason Griffey and Kate Sheehan and new Code Words columnist Jason Clark.

A 2010 ALA Emerging Leader, Sarah is academic technology coordinator at Hamden Hall, a preK-12 school in Connecticut. She previously worked at Darien Library, where in various positions she managed reference, technology, and teen services. She is author of Starting from Scratch: Building a Teen Library Program (Libraries Unlimited, 2011) and is one of VOYA’s “Tag Team Tech” columnists. Read More »


Smart Libraries Newsletter

January 2012

As we enter a new year, I’d like to pause and consider some of the trends and events that I anticipate playing out in 2012. The predictions I made for 2011 largely held (see Smart Libraries Newsletter, February 2011). Given the momentum of developments and the issues currently in play, 2012 may turn out to be a very interesting year in the realm of library technologies.

--Marshall Breeding

Also in this Issue

 

  • Endeca for Library Discovery: Implications of Oracle’s AcquisitionMySQL: Implications of Oracle’s Ownership
  • Phoenix Public Library: Blending Discovery into the Web Presence
  • A New Wave of Executive Management Changes
  • Library Technology News in Brief