{"bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Nicole C. Engard is the vice president of education at ByWater Solutions. She directs the company\u2019s open source education endeavors and works with systems librarians on a daily basis. In addition to her responsibilities at ByWater, Engard writes about technology, systems, and libraries on her website What I Learned Today ... (www.web2learning.net).\r\n\r\nEngard\u2019s interest in library technology started at the Jenkins Law Library in Philadelphia, where she worked as the web manager, metadata librarian, and librarian trainer. In 2007, she was named one of Library Journal\u2019s Movers & Shakers for her innovative uses of technology in libraries.\r\n\r\nEngard received her BA in Literary Studies and Computer Programming from Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and her MLIS from Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is an active member of the Special Libraries Association and is on the committee that is spearheading the switch to WordPress for all chapter and division websites.\r\n\r\nSome of Engard\u2019s previous publications include articles in Computers in Libraries, ONLINE Magazine, and the Journal of Hospital Librarianship. She has also written chapters for Thinking Outside the Book: Essays for Innovative Librarians (McFarland, 2008) and Writing and Publishing: The Librarian\u2019s Handbook, (American Library Association, 2010) both edited by Carol Smallwood. Most recently, she was the editor of Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data (Information Today, Inc., 2009) and Practical Open Source Software for Libraries (Chandos, 2010).\r\n\r\nShe lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, Brian, and her two shelties, Coda and Beau."}, "links": [{"url": "http://web2learning.net", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Author's Blog"}, {"url": "http://linkedin.com/in/nicoleengard", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Author's Resume"}], "photos": [6386860, 6617678, -1], "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2012-09-04T18:21:54.789919"}, "latest_revision": 8, "key": "/authors/OL6807465A", "name": "Nicole C. Engard", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2010-05-06T00:57:02.474886"}, "birth_date": "27 Jun 1979", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "revision": 8}