John Houser

John Houser served as Senior Technology Consultant for PALINET from 2006 through 2009. His responsibilities included enhancing PALINET's role as a leading technology advisor through awareness building, training, and consulting. He also facilitated implementation of new technology tools, methods and resources for members in areas like open source software, digitization and digital library development, portals and federated searching, institutional repositories, and e-content management. John's most recent prior position was Director of Information Systems at VTLS Inc, where he designed and coded that company's internal management system and the reporting module for their flagship product. Previously he ran the Information Systems Department at the Detroit Public Library, and was also a Systems Librarian at UCLA. John holds an MILS from University of Michigan, and a BA from Grinnell College, IA.