[Dspace-general] DuraSpace/SPARC OA Week Contest Winners!

[Carol Minton Morris]

Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA To celebrate the online development and the  
dissemination of diverse, often hidden digital assets, DuraSpace is  
pleased to announce three winners of the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access  
Week Contest. The contest solicited examples of repositories that have  
made significant resources more available to help shape the global  
knowledge landscape. The winners and their stories will be featured on  
a Sun/DuraSpace/SPARC “All About Repositories” Web Seminar on Oct. 14,  
2009 (register here: http://www.education-webevents.com/).

Luise Barnikel, Sales and Marketing Associate, IssueLab (http://www.issuelab.org/ 
), described the “2008 flexAbility Toolkit” designed to help employers  
with workplace disability issues in her winning entry entitled,  
“Social Policy Research: How Access Shaped Practice.” Bryan Beecher,  
Director, Computing & Network Services, Inter-University Consortium  
for Political and Social Research (ICPSR: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/) 
, University of Michigan, supports the mission of ICPSR which has  
delivered content using advanced technologies for six decades. He won  
with his entry, “Cold, Dark, and Lonely: An Archive Moves Online.”   
The history and culture of Forsythe County, North Carolina is the  
focus of a collection of over 12000 digital images (http://digitalforsyth.org 
) that Erik Mitchell described in his winning story “Building a  
Community Digital Library Using Dspace.”

Read the winning stories here: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2009/10/08/announcing-the-duraspacesparc-oa-week-contest-winners/ 
  and register for the DuraSpace/Sun/SPARC "All About Repositories"  
Web Seminar on Oct. 14 at 10:00am PT, 1:00pmET to learn more about the  
winning entries: http://www.education-webevents.com/.

Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org
Skype: carolmmorris
607 255-2702
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