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 is at all possible for your institution to increase your financial commitment this year, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace.org>. I'm pleased to report that we have reached 77% of our overall goal with contributions totaling $843,000 in one month. FROM VAL: While we have invoiced for this amount I wouldn't say this will what we will get - especially this year. I would suggest not quoting any stats until June.
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:
- June 10, Docker for DSpace – Lowering the Barrier of Entry for New Contributors
- June 10, DSpace 6 Repository Data Management with GLAMpipe
- June 10, Repository and CRIS Interoperability
- June 10, Getting Started with DSpace 7
- June 10, Introduction to Fedora 5.0 and the API Specification
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. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or feedback.
Warm regards,
Erin Tripp
Executive Director
Where We'll Be
LYRASIS Leaders Circle, Pittsburg, PA, May 30, 2019, Andrew Woods, Carol Minton Morris
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
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
