Conifer garners two awards from the Ontario Library Association

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I'm Dan Scott: barista, library geek, and free-as-in-freedom software developer. I hack on projects such as the Evergreen open-source ILS project and PEAR's File_MARC package .

By day I'm the Systems Librarian for Laurentian University. You can reach me by email at dan@coffeecode.net.

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Thursday, January 28. 2010

Conifer garners two awards from the Ontario Library Association

The Ontario Library Association (OLA) announced its 2010 OLA and OLA Divisional Award winners today, and to my great surprise Project Conifer was named the winner of two awards:

The Ontario College and University Library Association (OCULA) Special Achievement Award
The Ontario Library Information Technology Association (OLITA) Award for Technical Innovation

All of the libraries in the Project Conifer consortium have been listed in the award announcement, and for good reason: everyone using the Evergreen library system since May 2009 has contributed to the project, be it by bug reports, or suggestions for enhancement, or sharing approaches to solving problems, or contributing code. This has been a real team effort, and make no mistake: the road has been bumpy at times, and there's a lot of road left to travel before we get to our destination. Dan furtively glances at the open list of requested enhancements on the Conifer ticket system and gets back to finishing off this blog post... The continuing support of staff and librarians across the consortium has been critical to keeping things moving in a very positive direction, and I'm delighted that they're being recognized for their efforts.

Posted by Dan Scott in Evergreen at 15:28 | Comments (5)

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Congrats Dan and to the whole team!

#1 George Duimovich (Homepage) on 2010-01-29 08:55 (Reply)

Thanks George, for your support now and over the past few years. Still lots of interesting work left to do

#1.1 Dan Scott (Homepage) on 2010-01-29 16:51 (Reply)

Congratulations Dan and the whole team! Glad all of you have gotten some formal recognition.

#2 Mike Zuliani on 2010-01-29 16:17 (Reply)

Thanks Mike. It's certainly a nice energy boost for the project!

#2.1 Dan Scott (Homepage) on 2010-01-29 16:59 (Reply)

Congratulations Dan! Your work on the Conifer project and your contributions to the Evergreen and open-source community exemplify innovation.

#3 Robert Soulliere on 2010-02-02 13:50 (Reply)

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