George Machovec

Since April 2012, George has been the Executive Director at the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. Before that he was the Interim Executive Director, Associate Director and Technical Coordinator at the Alliance where he has worked since 1993. Some specific areas in which George has been involved during his time at the Alliance include the deployment of the Prospector regional union catalog (http://www.coalliance.org/prospector), the development of an electronic resource management system and link resolver called Gold Rush (http://goldrush.coalliance.org), involvement with a consortial digital repository project and cooperative purchasing of electronic resources. Previously he was head of systems at Arizona State University (ASU) Libraries from 1987-1993 and before that was a reference librarian and head of the Solar Energy Collection at ASU. George is the managing editor for The Charleston Advisor (http://charlestonco.com), a peer reviewed journal which provides in-depth reviews of products and services for libraries as well as monitoring trends in the library and information marketplace. He has published many articles and book chapters relating to digital libraries.