education

Ithaca, NY Tuskegee University was founded in post-civil war Alabama to educate and empower freed slaves. Lewis Adams and George W. Campbell were instrumental securing funds to open what was then known as the Tuskegee Normal School in 1881 under the leadership of former slave Booker T. Washington. The Auburn University Libraries Systems Department recently completed a collaborative project with Tuskegee University to make their archival materials available online in a DSpace Repository.
The Tuskegee University Archives Repository may be accessed here:

New York, NY Kaltura (http://corp.kaltura.com/) has launched the Cross Campus Education Suite which is designed to help educational institutions create, manage and distribute rich media learning resources in support of all aspects of teaching and learning.

http://corp.kaltura.com/solutions/education_technology_video

Ithaca, NY The 2010 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference (Anaheim, California; Oct. 12-15, 2010) will once again bring the people, research, businesses and resources together to examine and discuss the best IT solutions for higher education. If you are traveling to Anaheim please look for Michele Kimpton, CBO and Carol Minton Morris, Dir.

Chicago, Ill Northwestern University Libraries and Departments of Gender Studies and English in partnership with The University of Chicago Division of the Humanities and The Newberry Library are pleased to announce the first THATCamp Chicago.

From Art Pasquinelli, Oracle Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation Solutions Specialist and organizer of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG http://sun-pasig.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network).San Francisco, CA Here is an overview of several interesting PASIG-related activities and events that will take place in September and October.

From Bob Donahue, Senior Developer, WGBH Educational Foundation, WGBH Interactive

From Fang Wang, Digital Information Management Librarian, Texas Tech University School of Law Library

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC
Washington, D.C. Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fourth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access (OA), to share ideas with colleagues, and to inspire wider participation in establishing Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research.

Ithaca, NY Join Ben Bosman, CTO @mire for a free one-hour web seminar on September 8, 2010 at 11:00 EDT. He will explain how @mire’s open-source version of the “Content and Usage Analysis” DSpace module  released with DSpace 1.6 can work for you. The DSpace 1.6 statistics solution offers logging of usage data including bitstream downloads, item display page visits, and collection and community homepage visits.