[Dspace-general] Fall 2009 "All About Repositories" Webinars

[Valorie Hollister]

Dear DSpace Community,

Don't miss the Fall 2009  "All About Repositories" series featuring  
technology solutions from the industry leaders; DuraSpace, SPARC, and  
Sun Microsystems.  These highly successful webinars provide overviews  
of best practices, technology updates, and  key trend analyses for  
academic resources directors, IT managers, digital librarians,  
repository managers and developers, and curators.

The first event is coming up on Sept. 9th, so Register Today at;   
http://www.education-webevents.com/


Fall Series Titles:

Easy-to-use DuraSpace Repositories Enabling Open Access: Islandora,  
DSpace and NSDL EduPak
Sept. 9, 2009 at 10:00am PT
To celebrate Open Access Week Oct. 19-23 join presenters Mark Leggott,  
Valorie Hollister, Art Pasquinelli, and Carol Minton Morris as they  
unpack three open access, out-of-the-box repository solutions that  
will help make your digital assets available to your community "ASAP."  
Mark Leggott, University Librarian, University of Prince Edward Island  
will explain Islandora, based on the easy-to-use Drupal content  
management system with a Fedora Commons Repository Software on the  
back end. Valorie Hollister, DuraSpace Director of Community  
Development for DSpace, will talk about DSpace Repository software  
used by more than 600 institutions globally. Carol Minton Morris,  
DuraSpace Marketing and Communications and NSDL Communications, will  
introduce EduPak 1.0, a lightweight version of the open-source digital  
library platform used to power the National Science Digital Library  
that is designed to meet the needs of national educational  
organizations and institutions focused on establishing specialized  
digital collections, conducting educational research, and providing  
teachers with pedagogical tools that require basic digital repository  
technology. Art Pasquinelli from Sun will give an overview on the Sun  
PASIG event Oct. 7-9 and pertinent technology developments relevant to  
the repository community.

New DuraSpace "Stack" Releases: Fedora Commons, DSpace, and Mulgara
Sept. 30, 2009 at 10:00am PT

SPARC OA Week Kick-off Presentation and Presentation of DuraSpace OA  
Week Winners
Oct. 14, 2009 at 10:00am PT

Repositories in the Cloud: How to Participate in the DuraCloud Pilot Program
Oct. 28, 2009 at 10:00am PT



Valorie Hollister
DuraSpace
Director of Community Development, DSpace Project
860-966-1937
val at dspace.org
Skype: vhollister