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Carl Grant is a librarian who has worked in libraries, or companies automating libraries, for the last 32 years. Starting as a shelver at the St. Louis County Library when he was 16, he held a variety of increasing responsibilities, ending his career as an Assistant to the Director. He then joined DRA where he worked for 14 years in a variety of roles, most recently as the Vice President of International Business. He moved to Innovative Interfaces as their Vice President of Sales and Marketing and then joined Ameritech Library Services where he was Vice President of Marketing, Product Management and International Business. He joined Ex Libris (USA) as President in December of 1998 and in a period of four years spearheaded a number of initiatives that led to Ex Libris becoming a leading vendor of academic systems. He joined VTLS as President and COO in April 2003. Mr. Grant holds an MLS from the University of Missouri at Columbia. He is active in the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), is a member of ALA, ACRL, LAMA, LITA and PLA. He is currently the Vice-Chair of the Board of National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and serves as the Chair of the Vendor Initiative to Enable Web Services (VIEWS). He is a frequent speaker at conferences in the U.S. and around the world and has also authored a number of journal articles concerning library automation.
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