NISO Virtual Conference, Open Source and Community-Supported Infrastructure, August 24, 2022

We frequently hear that infrastructure is costly to build and maintain. Systems require investment and ongoing maintenance for the community to really benefit from and trust them. To ensure long-term success, community groups need to consider which of the spectrum of models currently in use will best sustain key information infrastructure. What’s working, and what’s been abandoned — and why? What are the best practices for working across organizational boundaries? How can community leaders encourage the commitment needed to ensure sustainability as well as development? This virtual conference will bring together a group of experts to address these and other questions about the expansion of open source and community-supported infrastructure. Confirmed speakers include Marshall Breeding, Consultant & Editor, Library Technology; Kristen Eschenfelder, Academic Associate Dean For Computer, Data & Information Sciences, University of Wisconsin; Arran Griffith, Program Manager for Academic Open Source Repository Software, LYRASIS; Evviva Weinraub Lajoie, Vice Provost for University Libraries, University at Buffalo; and Peter Murray, Open Source Community Advocate, Index Data.

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NISO Virtual Conferences

These half-day events cover a range of important and timely topics in more depth than our monthly webinars. With expert speakers from across the information community, they include a mix of formats — keynotes, case studies, perspectives, and vision interviews. Recordings are shared immediately with registered participants, and made openly available after two years.

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Arran Griffith

Program Manager for Academic Open Source Repository Software, LYRASIS

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Evviva Weinraub Lajoie

Vice Provost for the University at Buffalo Libraries

Evviva Weinraub Lajoie is the Vice Provost for the University at Buffalo Libraries. She received her undergraduate degree from Boston University in History and her MLIS from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to her role at SUNY Buffalo, she has had increasingly prominent roles at Yale University on the Research4Life programs, Tufts University, Oregon State University, the Digital Preservation Network (DPN), and most recently served as the Associate University Librarian for Collections & Technologies at Northwestern University. She is an active leader in ALA, IFLA, and serves on the Program Steering Committee for Hathi Trust. She has published and spoken extensively on library management, user experience, and open source software development, communities, and collaboration.

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Evviva Weinraub Lajoie

Vice Provost for University Libraries, State University of New York at Buffalo

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Kristen Eschenfelder

Academic Associate Dean For Computer, Data & Information Sciences, University of Wisconsin

Kristin Eschenfelder is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Information School. She is a scholar of data curation, and recently finished a Sloan Foundation funded study of sustainability and social science data archives which appears in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology as “Financial maintenance of social science data archives: Four case studies of long-term infrastructure work” She enjoys teaching future librarians about database design and program assessment.

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Marshall Breeding

Consultant, Creator, and Editor at Library Technology Guides

Marshall Breeding is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. He is the creator and editor of Library Technology Guides and the libraries.org online directory of libraries on the Web. His monthly column Systems Librarian appears in Computers in Libraries; he is the Editor for Smart Libraries Newsletter published by the American Library Association, and has authored the annual Library Systems Report published by American Libraries since 2014. American Library Association, Library Journal from 2002-2013 and by He has authored nine issues of ALA’s Library Technology Reports, and has written many other articles and book chapters. Marshall has edited or authored seven books, including Cloud Computing for Libraries published by in 2012 by Neal-Schuman, now part of ALA TechSource . He regularly teaches workshops and gives presentations at library conferences on a wide range of topics. Marshall Breeding held a variety of positions for the Vanderbilt University Libraries in Nashville, TN from 1985 through May 2012, including as Director for Innovative Technologies and Research as the Executive Director the Vanderbilt Television News Archive. Breeding was the 2010 recipient of the LITA LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Science.

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Peter Murray

Open Source Community Advocate - Index Data

Peter Murray is the Open Source Community Advocate at Index Data, a software development and consulting enterprise with expertise in networked information retrieval and management based on open standards. He received an MLIS from Simmons College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Analysis from Miami University. Peter’s current activities include building relationships among libraries, organizations, and service providers participating in the FOLIO open source library service platform project. His other interests include the promoting the awareness and integration of privacy-supporting tools into library services, the application of JPEG 2000 for long-term access and preservation of still and moving image content, distributed identity management systems, and – with the moniker “The Disruptive Library Technology Jester” – the rapid advancement of library services in a social web world.