Atlanta, GA -- June 10, 2025. Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to announce that Lisa Carlucci, Executive Director, will be participating in Marshall Breeding's panel discussion, "Executive Perspectives: A Conversation on the Future of the Library Technology Industry" at the ALA 2025 Annual Conference on Saturday, June 28, 2025 from 2:30pm – 3:30pm EDT in the Philadelphia Convention Center, Room 108. The hashtag for the event is #alaexecpanel. For more information about this presentation please see:
Carlucci is the Executive Director for Equinox Open Library Initiative and Equinox Library Services Canada, which together provide open source software and consulting services for public, academic, and special libraries across the United States and Canada. Since 2020, she has led Equinox's growth, nonprofit program development, and the expansion of services and support for Evergreen ILS, Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, and VuFind. Carlucci's experience includes 25 years of library and information management, from access services, acquisitions, and electronic collections at Yale University, to library systems and digital services at Southern Connecticut State University, and providing training for OCLC's WorldShare ILL and WorldCat Discovery implementations. Before Equinox, Lisa was the Executive Director at Library Connection, Inc. She was previously the Director of Dissemination and Implementation at C4 Innovations, leading the design and development of innovative healthcare technologies.
The following day, Sunday, June 29, 2025, Equinox's Galen Charlton and Jennifer Weston will also be presenting, joined by King County Library System's BJ Colvin. They will provide an overview of Equinox's research initiative, "Making it Real: Preparing for BIBFRAME in Public Libraries," at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 107. Full details are available here.
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