Lori Bowen Ayre

Lori Bowen Ayre specializes in automated materials handling (AMH), open source library system software, and RFID. Her company, The Galecia Group, serves library clients coast-to-coast from Washington State (King County Library System) to the East Coast (Massachusetts Library System). Ayre was first published on the topic of RFID in 2005 when she authored “Wireless Tracking in the Library: Benefits, Threats, and Responsibilities” in RFID-Applications, Security and Privacy (Addison Wesley). Most recently, Ayre co-authored “Label-Less Library Logistics: Implementing Labor-Saving Practices in Massachusetts’ High-Volume Resource Sharing System” which appears in Collaborative Librarianship, 2011(3).