<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all,<br><br>It is with great pleasure that the DSpace committers group would like <br>to announce two new additions to the group: Jeffrey Trimble and Larry <br>Stone. Please join us in welcoming them!<br><br>Jeffrey Trimble is currently the Systems Librarian at Youngstown State <br>University in Youngstown, Ohio. His responsibilities range from <br>tracing network cabling under the carpet to Unix administration on <br>their various AIX/LINUX servers. He oversees the coordination of the <br>local Integrated Library System (ILS) with the statewide OhioLINK <br>system. Additionally, he has the primary responsibility for the three <br>DSpace instances at the university, including RSpace, the repurposed <br>DSpace software acting as an eReserve service for the library.<br><br>In the DSpace community, Jeffrey has been instrumental in improving <br>the DSpace documentation for release 1.6 as the "Documentation <br>Gardener". In an effort to weed and feed the documentation, he has <br>tested various components and suggests changes and specifications when <br>the components doesn't work as expected.<br><br>Larry began contributing to DSpace in 2005, through work on several <br>grant-sponsored research projects in the MIT Libraries' Technology R&D <br>group. Since May 2009 he has been working for Harvard University <br>Library as the primary architect and developer of its open-access <br>institutional repository, DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at <br>Harvard - <a href="http://dash.harvard.edu/">http://dash.harvard.edu/</a>). Much of his work with DSpace has <br>been in the area of interoperability and external interfaces. He has <br>wide and varied interests in software development, including a <br>previous brush with digital libraries through a couple of Dienst <br>implementations and the old NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science <br>Technical Report Library) project.<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br><br><br>Stuart Lewis (on behalf of the DSpace committers group)<br><br>IT Innovations Analyst and Developer<br>Te Tumu Herenga The University of Auckland Library<br>Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand<br>Ph: 64 9 373-7599 x81928<br><a href="http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/">http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/</a></body></html>