When You're Not a Developer: Managing VuFind without technical experience Marliese Thomas Librarian for Special Collections Technology Auburn University Libraries

Explain Understanding it yourself What is: Discovery Open source Why are we doing this? How does it work?   Explaining it to others Analogies

Communicate Within the committee Email => listserv Wiki => Google Doc => blog => Redmine With administration Meetings, meetings, more meetings   Face time - committee, administrators When, where, how often Tools Email Blog/wiki Tracking

Unexpected effects Beyond the OPAC Courier Service 75% rise in completed transactions Had to hire additional student workers Digital collections Who knows? Handing off to another manager More communication

Effects People find you Problems Questions Opinions Image from: http://kara.allthingsd.com People find you Problems Questions Opinions Digital collections Other collections

In the end…. Many considerations… …. But we think it’s worth it.

Librarian for Special Collections Technology Thanks much! Marliese Thomas Librarian for Special Collections Technology msthomas@auburn.edu