Eric Lease Morgan

Eric Lease Morgan considers himself to be a librarian first and a computer user second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computers to improve library service. He has been giving his software away for more than ten years before the term open source software had been coined.

His most recent and significant contribution to open source software in libraries is the development and initial implementation of the MyLibrary concept - a user-driven, customizable interface to collections of library materials - a portal.

In 1994 he began the Mr. Serials Process http://infomotions.com/serials/, a systematic method for collecting, indexing, and disseminating electronic serials. This matured into Index Morganagus http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~emorgan/morganagus/. In 2002, Eric was awarded the 2002 Bowker/Ulrich's Serials Librarianship Award for his serials work as well as MyLibrary.