"No one in the library profession has served as a greater evangelist for open source software than Josh Ferraro," says Carl Grant, president of CARE Affiliates, Blacksburg,VA, and one of his many admirers both inside and outside of the Ohio library community. Ferraro was systems administrator for the Nelsonville Public Library, OH, when it became the nation's first library to switch to an open source ILS (Koha, on Labor Day 2003). In promoting open source to other libraries, however, Ferraro says he found most didn't have access to "internal support staff who would enable them to deploy something asrncomplex as an ILS without help from a commercial vendor."
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