Carl Grant Launches CARe Affiliates

By Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 6/18/2007 9:27:00 AM

Carl Grant, a seasoned automation veteran most recently serving as president of VTLS, has launched CARe Affiliates, Inc., a new service company for libraries. Grant said the company was formed “in response to concerns librarians have expressed over needing lower costs, more interoperability, control, and flexibility in their automation solutions.” The company will use open source software “as the basis for total solutions offered and supported.” Grant said he and partner Lou Leuzzi will work with libraries “to jointly develop great ideas, provide needed solutions in an open environment, and do it in an affordable and caring way. The company name is a deliberate reflection of the approach we will follow in working with libraries.”