ibiblio services/changes announcement list

[Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>]

First, let me thank you all for your good work on your collections. You 
folks make ibiblio what it is -- in fact you make it possible. I hope we 
can continue to keep ibiblio evolving and growing so that we can continue 
to be the Public's Library and Digital Archives and to be an important 
part of the Knowledge Commons.

You will be noticing some personel changes, as some very good and 
dedicated folks move to new jobs and new interests and new folks are 
coming in to help out.

On December 28, Ken Chestnutt will join us as our new sysadmin. Ken has 
years of experience in managing high-demand systems and in managing remote 
data centers. Ken will be taking the position formerly held by John 
Reuning who left ibiblio in August for lulu.com. John has been helping out 
even at a distance and keeping at work on the osprey torrent.ibiblio.org 
project.

On January 1, Fred Stutzman will leave ibiblio to work on his PhD in 
Information Science full-time. Fred will keep a hand in the lyceum 
blogsphere project, lyceum.ibiblio.org. I feel certain that Fred will make 
significant contributions to the field of information science.

We'll begin looking for another sysadmin to join Ken in the new year. The 
HR process takes much longer than I would like and I'm applogize for any 
pain you feel as we work to fill these positions.

We have some great students continuing to work with us and some great new 
folks joining us. You'll no doubt hear from Janathan Mills, Sayan 
Chakraborti, John Bachir, Joey Carr, Kristina Spurgin, TJ Ward and soon 
Dan Lucas.

Several ibiblio alums have been helping out during our transitions. John 
Reuning, Donald Sizemore, Adriane Boyd, Miles Efron, Jason Moore, Nassib 
Nassar and others have been lending a hand and sharing their expertise.

I'll have more of a year end message in a few days, but I wanted to let 
you know that we are in the midst of changes -- all good I feel -- and 
that new faces and new ids will be communicating with you.

Again thanks and more to come,
Paul

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                             Paul Jones
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