In the year 2000, Lori Ayre left her Director of Technology job behind to provide technology guidance to the institution she so valued - the library. She started up a consulting business called The Galecia Group.
As a national consultant, Lori has worked with a wide variety of city and county libraries as well as consortia and other organizations that support libraries. She specializes in resource sharing and delivery, Internet filters, RFID, all things 2.0, and public access computing.
Her experience as a manager of people and technology provided her with an appreciation for the effect of change on people, and when and how to select and introduce technology to yield the best results.
She is an inspirational speaker and writer who brings her Midwestern practicality together with her dry sense of humor to nudge her colleagues out of their ruts and open their minds to new ideas.
In addition to consulting with libraries, Ayre teaches half day and full day workshops, and presents and produces webcasts.
She maintains her own weblog, Mentat and also
contributes to TechEssence.
She has written pieces for ALA publications including Library Technology Reports and the Whole Library Handbook 4,
and contributed a chapter to the Addison Wesley book "RFID-Applications, Security and Privacy."
Lori makes most of her work freely available on her website at www.galecia.com.
In 2006, Lori received her MLIS degree from San Jose State University after which time she pledged to spend more time riding her Icelandic horses and playing tennis. She has been moderately successful in this pledge.
However, her commitment to the future of libraries and the changes that must be made to ensure that future
keep her from taking too much time off.
