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

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

3. 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
Blog/wiki
Tracking

6. 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

7. Effects People find you Problems Questions Opinions
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People find you
Problems
Questions
Opinions
Digital collections
Other collections

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

9. Librarian for Special Collections Technology
Thanks much!
Marliese Thomas
Librarian for Special Collections Technology