On October, 28 the university library of the Technische Universität Berlin invited to the German DSpace User Group Meeting 2014 (see invitation below). As the last meeting had been held some years ago it was hard to predict how many people would be interested to attend the meeting. In the end we were 26 participants from 16 institutions (see list of participants below). And we even could have been more: As some registrations came only a few days before the meeting it was too late to find a larger room and we had to refuse them.

For the DSpace community in Germany the meeting has been a great chance to re-organize the collaboration on typical German use cases. There was a wide range of themes discussed in the meeting: user experiences with special features as well as how to implementXMetaDissPlus and information about new developments in DSpace (see agenda below). The discussions took place in a lively and intense atmosphere, and the participants agreed that such meetings henceforth should be held at least once a year. The library of the Universität Tübingen kindly offered to host a meeting in the next year, probably in April or May 2015.

Invitation

The invitation had been spread widly: It had been sent to several mailing lists as dspace-general and DSpace-de, published in the news section of duraspace.org and dspace.org and spread by duraspace's twitter account.

Agenda

Participants

There were participants from a German library network and from the libraries of the following institutions:

• BSZ Konstanz
• Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik
• Humboldt-Universität Berlin
• Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
• Technische Universität Dresden
• Technische Universität Berlin
• Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg
• Universität Bonn
• Universität Kassel
• Universität Konstanz
• Universität Osnabrück
• Universität Stuttgart
• Universität Tübingen
• ZBW Hamburg
• ZBW Kiel
• Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften

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