Shauna Borger is the Department Head for the Professional Development Office which includes oversight of Evergreen Indiana, the Evergreen-resource sharing consortium of 101 public, school and special libraries in Indiana. After receiving her MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2009, Shauna has worked with digital content management systems, archival materials and has held various positions at the Indiana State Library including Evergreen Indiana Coordinator and Regional Coordinator. Open source software and consortia have changed the face of resource sharing in Indiana and many other places around the world. The Indiana State Library is committed to collaborating with other Evergreen consortia to improve and expand upon all that open source and Evergreen can offer.

Chauncey Montgomery has worked in libraries for over 20 years and is currently director of the Community Library in Sunbury, Ohio. Along with OHIONET, Chauncey helped form Ohio's first Evergreen consortium, the Consortium of Ohio Libraries (COOL), of which he is currently chair.

I currently serve as the Head of Public & Technical Services at Kent County Public Library in Chestertown, Maryland. I oversee all aspects of Cataloging, ILL, Circulation, and Reference at KCPL. We have been live on Evergreen since June 2008 and we are the only public library system in Maryland using an open source ILS.

Along with my former colleague Karen Collier, I initiated KCPL’s Evergreen project. I’ve spoken at many conferences & meetings about Evergreen and open source, including 4 of the 5 Evergreen Conferences, the Maryland Library Association Conference, and the Potomac Technical Processing Librarians meeting, among others. I have on several occasions given demos of KCPL’s Evergreen setup to local and regional libraries interested in seeing a live system.

I am thrilled & honored to be nominated for the Evergreen Oversight Board, since I have been searching for a way to become more involved with the Evergreen project while balancing my new job responsibilities. I am particularly interested in how Evergreen & OSS intersect with the needs of smaller libraries, and I believe my position in a small rural library gives me a unique perspective on how Evergreen can help libraries to provide better services, more options, and lower costs than a proprietary system can.

I hold a Bachelor’s Degree from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a Master’s Degree in Library Science from the University of Maryland College Park. My outside interests include reading, gardening, cooking/eating, and building frankenputers with my husband.

For many years I have greatly relied on various open source tools and technologies to accomplish my work goals, while advocating other professionals to embrace open source solutions. It now has been very rewarding to move from a closed source ILS to Evergreen, where I have a more direct role in collaboratively learning about, as well as improving the system I rely on so much. I have been active in the Evergreen community for the last two and a half years, mostly as a member of the Documentation Interest Group (DIG) and as occasional reporter of bugs. I first started with simply formatting donated documentation to the DIG documentation format, and in the last year and a half I have been volunteering as the DIG meeting facilitator. I also have 14 years of experience as a library system administrator for the Berklee College of Music library, and I was the project manager for the Berklee Evergreen migration that culminated last year. Some of my Evergreen community areas of interest are (of course) community documentation, TPAC customizations, and authorities. If elected to the board, I hope to be one voice of many that helps shape the future direction of this project we all care so much about.

Thanks for your consideration, Yamil Suarez, MCS