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As you may be aware CEO Debra Hanken Kurtz is returning to academic librarianship at Arizona State University to serve as the Associate University Librarian for Technology Services where she will have the opportunity work more closely with the creators and users of repository and research outputs and to help preserve content and make it more easily accessible for scholars of every stripe. Erin Tripp, Business Development Manager at DuraSpace, will serve as the Interim Chief Executive Officer. Valorie Hollister, Director of Membership and Finance at DuraSpace, and Bill Branan, Services Technical Director, will assist Ms. Tripp with the transition.

Many new developments

  • New web site?
  • Adding strategic partners
  • DSpace and Fedora at OR, DSpace at EuroCRIS Conference, other
  • Report outs--webinars--for members on os projects?
  • entities work as part of DSpace 7 (waiting on DSpace Steering communication coming soon)

DSpace users met on June 13 in Umeå, Sweden to identify existing examples of integration between DSpace and CRIS systems and to discuss functionalities that DSpace could implement in the future to support workflows traditionally associated with Research Information Systems more effectively.

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