George Williams
Next Search Catalog Coordinator
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolGeorge Williams is an experienced library systems professional with nine years managing the shared Next Search catalog for the Northeast Kansas Library System and a long history supporting consortial ILS operations. He combines hands-on catalog and circulation administration with staff development, having overseen multi-branch circulation teams and served as a Koha system administrator and consortium liaison. Based in Lawrence, Kansas, George brings deep expertise in rural librarianship and a knack for solving operational puzzles that improve patron experience and interlibrary workflows. Intellectually curious and pragmatic, he has a track record of stepping into technical and supervisory roles—from interim webmaster to bookmobile operations—to keep services running smoothly and adapt to new challenges.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English Literature (British and Commonwealth), BA, English Literature (British and Commonwealth) at Boise State UniversityEnglish Literature (British and Commonwealth), English Literature (British and Commonwealth) at University of Idaho
English, Latin, English
Github Skills (5)
freeradius1
sandbox1
docker-container1
docker-compose1
docker1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
will1410/slides
May 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:49 commits, 6 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 4 months
will1410/cataloging-training
Jul 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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