Dear Friends,

Our annual membership campaign is underway. I want to thank you in advance for your continued support of DuraSpace.  Our current members should have received renewal invoices. If you have not received your renewal invoice or if it's possible for your institution to increase your financial commitment this year, please contact Valorie Hollister, DuraSpace CFO.

As we complete our merger with LYRASIS we are looking for nominations from our communities for the FY2019/2020 LYRASIS Board of Trustees. The LYRASIS Nominating Committee, on which DuraSpace is represented, will recommend candidates for each of the following open positions on the FY2019/2020 ballot:

  • Two (2) representatives from member state library agencies or group agents;
  • One (1) representative from a member academic library; and
  • One (1) representative from a member special library.

All potential member candidates must:

  • Be affiliated with a LYRASIS or DuraSpace member institution at a senior level, defined by LYRASIS' Bylaws as a person in a position to have an influence on and/or implement relevant policies at that institution;
  • Be at least 18 years of age;
  • Have demonstrated skills relevant to the LYRASIS Board, such as leadership; knowledge of the library, archive and/or museum environment; the ability to engage constituents and business expertise;
  • Be able to serve a three-year term.

To assist the Committee in evaluating potential candidates, please provide all requested information via this FORM. If you are nominating another person, please obtain permission from that individual before submitting his or her name for consideration. Self-nominations are allowed. The Committee requests your nominations no later than May 24, 2019. The LYRASIS Nominating Committee will review submissions, make selections and announce the selected slate of candidates in May for the June Board election. If you have questions or need additional information, please feel free to contact Jennifer Bielewski, LYRASIS Community Engagement Manager. 

DuraSpace staff members are looking forward to seeing some of you at OR2019, June 10-13 in Hamburg, Germany where DuraSpace projects, partners and initiatives will be represented in workshops and presentations. The complete program including links to abstracts can be browsed via ConfTool. Here is a list of a few of many OR2019 workshops that may be of interest:

In addition, we are pleased to invite you to submit proposals by June 21 for the upcoming North American DSpace Users Meeting to be held September 23 and 24, 2019 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. 

Last but not least, we are pleased to report that the first 2 Google Scholar webinars were very well attended. We had over 100 participants in both Brazil and Peru (with over 400 registrants in Brazil) and great engagement. Slides and recording are available in the WIKI pages of the Brazilian and the Peruvian DSpace User Groups. Thanks to the support and collaboration of LA Referencia, we connected with all 9 Latin American National Nodes. We will hold national webinars in June for Argentina and Germany and are in the process of planning webinars for DSpace users in Ghana, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Mexico. Feel free to contact us if you're interested in collaborating with us to organize a national webinar in your country.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or feedback. 

Warm regards,

Erin Tripp

Executive Director


Where We'll Be 

Fedora Camp, Atlanta, Georgia May 20 – 22, 2019, Andrew Woods, David Wilcox, Danny Bernstein

COAR 2019 Annual Meeting, Lyon, France, May 21-23, Erin Tripp, Michele Mennielli

euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Espoo/Helsinki, Finland, May 27-29, Michele Mennielli

LYRASIS Leaders Circle, Pittsburg, PA, May 30, 2019, Andrew Woods, Carol Minton Morris 

Open Repositories 2019, Hamburg, Germany, June 10-13, 2019, Andrew Woods, David Wilcox, Michele Mennielli, Tim Donohue

VIVO Conference, Podgorica, Montenegro September 4-6, 2019, Michele Mennielli, Andrew Woods

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