Dear Friends,
As you may be aware CEO know, Debra Hanken Kurtz is returning has departed DuraSpace to return 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 . Debra is leaving the organization in fine form as 2017 was the healthiest fiscal year to date and we boast an incredible team of staff who will continue to deliver on our mission, engage our communities, and promote transparency and openness.
I will serve as Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to help transition DuraSpace to new leadership. I'm very fortunate to have 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
assisting with this process.
Our team has achieved some big goals this past month, including:
- Launching our new website, https://duraspace.org/
- Announcing a collaborative partnership with COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories)
- Representing our technologies and communities at the Open Repositories conference, VIVO Conference, and CRIS Conference
- Delivering three webinars focused on DuraCloud, VIVO and the 2.5% Commitment: Investing in Open
- Formalizing plans to include entities support in
- 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)
We are delighted to share news of these initiatives and our team looks forward to continuing to support projects and advance services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. 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.
With many thanks for your support and participation.
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CASRAI-EU Reconnect18, Porto, Portugal, June 29 - David Baker, Michele Mennielli
iCamp HRM, Halifax, NS, Canada - Erin Tripp and David Wilcox