John Brice, a northwestern Pennsylvania native, wears the dual hats of both library Director for the Meadville Public Library2 and Chief Executive Officer of the Crawford County Federated Library System with 9 member libraries. During his 23 year tenure tenure John has integrated the latest Library Information Technology into the nine libraries in rural Crawford County, which by the way, was the birthplace of the oil industry. Starting in 1999, with an internet router project, Crawford County has been using open source software solutions in all of his back-end IT infrastructure projects and converted its ILS over to Koha in 2005. In addition to using open source software CCFLS, through its on staff developer, has initiated the Libki project, which is a library based Kiosk management program that allows patron authentication through SIP2 and monitors patron usage of the Internet. John has written a number of articles about using open source software in small rural libraries and a complete listing of all the articles along with the open software being used in Crawford County can be found at meadvillelibrary.org/os4.
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