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The primary goal of the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC) is to help identify or develop resources and tools for DSpace users and , as well as to advance the user community network world-wide.

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For a list of DGOC projects, visit the the DGOC Project Projects pageDSpace Global Outreach Cmte. 

Activities

The following are a list of potential activities for the committee members. However, committee members will help refine and establish what is important for their region/country. Estimated time for each committee member is around 10 hours a month.

• Attend regular, virtual committee meetings

• Collaborate on projects to develop tools and resources to serve the community

• Take part in forums to share training and best practices in your country/region

• Network regularly with other DSpace users in your region

• Serve as a resource to new or potential DSpace users within your country/region on the DSpace platform

• Help develop agenda and host user group meetings

• Help guide the priorities of the DuraSpace organization to better serve the needs of repository managers

• Facilitate feedback from your country/region on the DSpace platform design in order to make the development process more balanced and informed about the repository manager's needs and the variety of use cases

Meetings

The committee meets monthly on the 1st Tuesday of every month via a conference call. We hold two different calls to accommodate members from different time zones. For more information and meeting notes, click here.

Committee Members

Committee members are volunteers from the world-wide DSpace user community. Members will be primarily made up of individuals who function as DSpace repository managers at their institution and have the ability and an interest in building or further developing their DSpace developing resources/tools for DSpace users and as well as to advance the user community network world-wide. The committee aims to have representatives from variety of countries/regions in order to provide broad support the DSpace user community.

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Ronee L. Francis - Vanderbilt University

Ezra S. Gbaje - Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

Leonie Hayes - University of Auckland

Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace

Alvin Hutchinson - Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net

Jayan C Kurian - National University of Singapore

Yohannes Mulugeta - Addis Ababa University Libraries

Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan

Christina Richison - NITLE

Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Beth Tillinghast - University of Hawaii at Manoa

Emeritus Committee Members

Ezra S. Gbaje - Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

Leonie Hayes - University of Auckland

Alvin Hutchinson - Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Jayan C Kurian - National University of Singapore

Yohannes Mulugeta - Addis Ababa University Libraries

Joy Wheeler - Nanyang Technological University Singapore

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Christina Richison - NITLE

Monica Roos - University of Bergen

Michael Soupios - Seton Hall University

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