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Nicole is the Vice President of Education at ByWater Solutions. In her over ten years in libraries she has dedicated herself to educating librarians about technologies both on her site web2learning.net and in person with a focus on open source. In 2010 she authored 'Practical Open Source Software for Libraries' and regularly writes for various library outlets about open source for libraries. ...more

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Taking a Break

I’m sure those of you who are still reading have noticed that I haven’t been updating this site much in the past few years. I was sharing my links with you all but now Delicious has started adding ads to that. I’m going to rethink how I can use this site effectively going forward. For now you can read my regular content on Opensource.com at https://opensource.com/users/nengard.

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	Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data 3.31 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Accidental Systems Librarian by Nicole C. Engard (Goodreads Author), Rachel Singer Gordon 3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Practical Open Source Software for Libraries (Chandos Information Professional Series) 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data by Nicole C. Engard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kara Reuter (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Practical Open Source Software for Libraries 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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