Atlanta, GA, June 11, 2025: Equinox Open Library Initiative, a trusted leader in open source technology development and support for libraries, is pleased to announce that Lisa Carlucci, Executive Director, will be participating in Marshall Breeding’s panel discussion, “Executive Perspectives: A Conversation on the Future of the Library Technology Industry,” at the ALA 2025 Annual Conference on Saturday, June 28, 2025 from 2:30pm – 3:30pm EDT in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 108. The hashtag for the event is #alaexecpanel. For more information about this presentation please see: https://librarytechnology.org/web/breeding/ALAExecPanel/
Carlucci is the Executive Director for Equinox Open Library Initiative and Equinox Library Services Canada, which together provide open source software and consulting services for public, academic, and special libraries across the United States and Canada. Since 2020, she has led Equinox’s growth, nonprofit program development, and the expansion of services and support for Evergreen ILS, Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, and VuFind®. Carlucci’s experience includes 25 years of library and information management, from access services, acquisitions, and electronic collections at Yale University, to library systems and digital services at Southern Connecticut State University, and providing training for OCLC’s WorldShare ILL and WorldCat Discovery implementations. Before Equinox, Lisa was the Executive Director at Library Connection, Inc. She was previously the Director of Dissemination and Implementation at C4 Innovations, leading the design and development of innovative healthcare technologies.
The following day, Sunday, June 29, 2025, Equinox’s Galen Charlton and Jennifer Weston will also be presenting, joined by King County Library System’s BJ Colvin. They will provide an overview of Equinox’s research initiative, “Making it Real: Preparing for BIBFRAME in Public Libraries,” at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 107. Full details are available here: https://cdmcd.co/Kp6qrY.
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About Equinox Open Library Initiative
Equinox Open Library Initiative is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and is the successor to Equinox Software, Inc. Equinox’s mission as a nonprofit is to promote and support a thriving ecosystem for open source library communities in order to provide libraries worldwide with innovative open source solutions. Equinox is devoted to reducing barriers to library technology and services, expanding library access to open source software, and providing high quality technology, consulting, and support services. To learn more, please visit https://www.equinoxOLI.org.
About Evergreen
Evergreen Integrated Library System is an award winning and trusted library solution used by more than 1,800 libraries worldwide. Evergreen ILS is a web-based and mobile-friendly system which provides attractive, easy to use interfaces for library acquisitions, administration, cataloging, circulation, OPAC, reports, course reserves, and serials functionality.
Evergreen ILS is an enterprise level system designed to manage a scalable catalog shared across libraries, including large public and academic library consortia. While designed for large collections, Evergreen is suitable for libraries of any size and type from government to museum and special collection libraries. Its flexibility enables libraries to configure policies and settings that work best for their communities and to maintain ownership of their library and systems data.
For more information on Evergreen: https://www.equinoxoli.org/products/evergreen/.
About Koha ILS
Created in 1999 by Katipo Communications for the Horowhenua Library Trust in New Zealand, Koha Integrated Library System is the first open source Integrated Library System to be used worldwide. For more information on Koha: https://www.equinoxoli.org/products/koha/.
About CORAL ERM
CORAL is an electronic resources management system consisting of interoperable modules designed around the core components of managing electronic resources for libraries and other organizations. For more information on CORAL: https://www.equinoxoli.org/products/coral/.
About SubjectsPlus
SubjectsPlus is a user-friendly, open source, content management system for information sharing. SubjectsPlus provides tools to create information-rich subject guides, organize curated content for specific audiences in or around a research topic, and to develop and manage library websites. For more information on SubjectsPlus: https://www.equinoxoli.org/products/subjectsplus/.
About Fulfillment
Fulfillment is an open source interlibrary loan management system which leverages intuitive design and efficient workflows to maximize value and impact for libraries. Fulfillment provides community members expanded access to library resources across their state and beyond their consortium. For more information on Fulfillment: https://www.equinoxoli.org/products/fulfillment/.
About Aspen Discovery
Aspen Discovery is an open source discovery layer that powerfully gathers all of a library’s resources together into a single search. Aspen Discovery provides comprehensive access to the entirety of a library’s holdings, pulling in data from the ILS and licensed databases. For more information on Aspen Discovery: https://www.equinoxoli.org/products/aspen-discovery/.
About VuFindⓇ
VuFindⓇ is an open source discovery product for libraries and archives developed and maintained by Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library. VuFindⓇ enables library users to discover the entirety of libraries’ collections, including catalog records, journals, digital items, and more. VuFindⓇ is open source and customizable—the interface may be configured to best meet users’ needs. For more information on VuFindⓇ: https://www.equinoxoli.org/products/vufind/.