Tuesday – Duraspace Board Meeting

The board discussed the budget and the financial performance of the VIVO Project and Duraspace services.  VIVO will change how ti approaches membership (see below).  Duraspace services has already changed FTE assignments to significantly lower its costs.  Open board positions were discussed.  The board then discussed the merger and the status of due diligence.  Robert Miller then joined the meeting in person, along with additional Lyrasis board members via webEx.  Additional discussion of the opotential merger followed.

Wednesday – Summit Day 1

Laura Wood of Tufts, opened by the Summit by thanking Duraspace for another fine year and for its leadership and introduced the concept of the merger as one of complimentary strengths.  debra hanken kurtz followed, along with Robert Miller of Lyrasis, discussing the merger and taking questions.  The projects then each presented their current work and their plans for the coming year.  Dean B. Krafft and Mike Conlon presented for VIVO.  Their presentation can be found in Figshare here.

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