The Quipu Group is a team of information technology professionals who
provide contracting and consulting services to libraries and to organizations
supporting libraries.
The partners of Quipu Group bring over 30 years of combined experience in support and application/system development for the library community. Before forming Quipu Group, the partners developed, maintained, and enhanced a number of diverse projects, including UnCover, Gold Rush, Prospector, and The Collaborative Digitization Project.
The Partners are:
Robert Anderson has been programming since 1995. He worked for Concord/EFS,
a merchant bank credit and debit card processor, writing code in TAL on a
Guardian OS to handle debit card transactions between Concord/EFS and debit
card processors.
In 1996, Robert joined The UnCover Company to initially enhance and
streamline existing code. While there he re-coded the fax article delivery
system and completed Y2K conversion of UnCover's code. After UnCover, Robert
worked for LBT Technical Services as a consultant working on the Prospector
system for the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.
He also ran Anderson Ventures, Inc, a consulting company, providing
services to LBT Technical Services Inc. and The UnCover Company.
In 2000, Robert joined The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.
While there he developed the circulation side of the Prospector system
for Regis University and Denver Public Library (CARL.Solutions libraries),
and helped to develop the Gold Rush electronic resource management system.
In addition to system engineering, he also handled project management
and did marketing/sales for Gold Rush.
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Melissa Stockton began her library career in consortia -- first at the
Association of Higher Education of North Texas, then at AMIGOS Library
Services. She worked for the UnCover Company for several years and in
several roles, including Manager of Technical Operations.
In 1997, Melissa moved to the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries,
where she coordinated many projects for Alliance member libraries. She
also played an important role in guiding the design and development of the
Gold Rush electronic resource management system.
Melissa moved to Regis University in 2003, where she migrated the
university libraries from a CARL system to an Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
system. Due to 6-month sabbaticals, while at Regis Melissa supervised the
Technical Services Department as well as the Circulation and InterLibrary
Loan Departments for 6 month increments. During Melissa's time at Regis,
the new library system was installed and upgraded twice, the library website
was completely re-done and all of the public and staff computers in the
library were replaced. Melissa was a member of a number of library and
university committees and was also an active member of the Regis Chapter of the AAUP.
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Scott Stockton has worked with libraries, library vendors, library consortia,
and museums since recieving his Master of Arts in Library Science in 1989.
During the intervening years, he has participated in many library-centered projects.
These projects included migrating libraries from one telecommunications
methodology to another, migrating libraries from line-mode terminals to
desktop computers, creating digital archives for special collections, and
designing and creating systems to aid in disaster recovery.
Other than systems and telecomm migrations, the most notable of these
projects are Denver Public Library's Photoswest project (originally GoWest),
The Collaborative Digitization Project (formerly Colorado Digitization Project),
and Colorado Alliance's E-Journal Miner, Prospector, and Gold Rush.
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