higher education

Ithaca, NY The libraries of great institutions of learning often house widely accessible digital collections alongside valuable physical collections. It is therefore no surprise that Harvard University Library features a remarkable selection of 33 web-accessible collections available online in words, images and annotations transporting web travelers to past times, taking them on esoteric adventures, and presenting them with varied scientific and cultural information.

From Tim Donohue on behalf of the DSpace Committers.

Ithaca, NY I'd like to formally announce a change to the DSpace Release Numbering Scheme, as well as the upcoming 3.0 release.

In the past, we have had a "three-tiered" numbering scheme ([major].[minor].[subminor]), e.g. 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2. However, over the years, we've heard feedback that this numbering scheme could be confusing, as it was unclear which releases contained brand new features and which releases only contained bug fixes.

From Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

From Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace, Butch Lazorchak, Library of Congress NDIIPP, Vickie Allen, PBS, Deborah Rossum, SCOLA

New York, NY A video recording of Columbia University Libraries Scholarly Communication Program event "Protests, Petitions & Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012" is available.

Scholarly Communication Program site:
http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/2012/02/16/protests-petitions-and-publishing-widening-access-to-research-in-2012/

From Ian Dolphin, Executive Director, Sakai Foundation and  Patty Gertz, Interim Executive Director, Jasig

Something special is happening in Atlanta, June 10-15. Jasig and Sakai, two of the pioneers of open source software in higher education, are pooling resources to provide a better home for innovation. The Jasig-Sakai Conference will showcase the adoption and growth of software to support advances in learning, teaching and research, together with the infrastructure that enables it.

Ithaca, NY The recent "sold-out" Code{4}Lib Conference was hosted by the Orbis Cascade Alliance and the University of Washington Libraries February 6-9, 2012. Slides are available for two Hydra project presentations of note.

From Kevin Ashley, 7th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) Program Chair

Edinburgh, UK The call for papers for Open Repositories 2012 has been extended one last time to midnight on Thursday March 8th. This is in response to demand from

From Stuart Macdonald, Associate Data Librarian, EDINA, on behalf of OR2012 Host Organizing Committee

Edinburgh, UK The online submissions system for OR12 is live at: http://or2012.blogs.edina.ac.uk/submissions/

Ithaca, NY EDUCAUSE (http://www.educause.edu/) members interest in strategies and issues around cloud computing was reflected in many questions following the EDUCAUSE Live! web seminar presented by DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton and Chief Strategy Officer Jonathan Markow on Feb 29, 2012.