Lori Ayre

Lori Ayre is the principal consultant with The Galecia Group, a library technology consulting and project management firm located in the North Bay. Lori has been on contract with Infopeople since 2000 doing work on various technology topics including reporting on Internet filters, teaching, managing projects and Infopeople's webcast program.

In addition to consulting, Lori speaks and writes on numerous topics including blogging, filtering and RFID. She has her own blog, Mentat, which covers the gamut from political griping to tech tips for public libraries.

Lori wrote Filtering and Filter Software, which was published in 2004 by the American Library Association. She has also contributed a chapter in the forthcoming book by editors Simson Garfinkel and Beth Rosenberg entitled "RFID:Applications, Security and Privacy" being published by Addison Wesley.