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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 's possible for your institution to increase your financial commitment this year, please contact Valorie Hollister <vhollister@duraspace.org>, DuraSpace CFO.
LYRASIS Board of Trustees Election Process
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:
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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.
Last Last but not least, we are pleased to report that the first 2webinars of the series we are organizing with 2 Google Scholar were webinars were very well attended. We had over 100 participants in both Brazil and Peru (with over 400 registrants in Brazil) and great engagement. Slides and recording are available in the WIKI pages of the Brazilian and the Peruvian DSpace User Groups. Thanks to the support and collaboration of LA Referencia we had the opportunity to meet all the , we connected with all 9 Latin American National Nodes and present them the webinar structure and the value of the national User Groups. We will continue to organize hold national webinars , in June for Argentina and Germany , then we're planning the ones and are in the process of planning webinars for DSpace users in Ghana, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Mexico. Feel free to contact us if you're interested in collaborating with us to organize one for a national webinar in your country too.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or feedback.
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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
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euroCRIS Membership Meeting, Espoo/Helsinki, Finland, May 27-29, Michele Mennielli
LYRASIS Leaders Circle, Pittsburg, PA, May 30, 2019, Andrew Woods, Carol Minton Morris
Open Repositories 2019, Hamburg, Germany, June 10-13, 2019, Andrew Woods, David Wilcox, Michele Mennielli, Tim Donohue
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