My name is Brenda Hough and I'll be one of the guest bloggers at next week's NetSquared Conference (N2Y3). I'm a librarian and currently work for the MaintainIT Project as the Library Training Specialist. I'm also a doctoral student and my dissertation topic is Wikipedia usage. I'm looking at the conference agenda now, trying to decide which sessions I'll attend, and it's a tough call!

The MaintainIT Project, a project of our mother organization, TechSoup, is a three-year project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that is working with public libraries to identify best practices of technical support for public computers.

The Project works with libraries throughout the U.S. and Canada, while focusing on libraries in the 18 states that are receiving the first round of hardware upgrade grants from the Foundation.