higher education

Winchester, MA Last month DuraSpace shared a report on the current "State of DSpace" following a series of phone calls with sponsors, committers, DCAT members, and service providers. The summary can be found here http://www.duraspace.org/dspace-futures.

From the TPDL organizing committee

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital

Libraries constitutes a leading European scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. The 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013) is organized by the University of Malta and it will be held in Valetta, Malta on September 22-26, 2013.

Aims and scope

From the USETDA Board

Claremont, CA  Proposals for presentations, panel sessions and posters are invited for the upcoming U.S Electronic Thesis and Dissertation conference to be held in Claremont, California (near Disneyland resort, beaches & Hollywood) July 24-26, 2013. 

Conference registration is now open - for complete information visit http://www.usetda.org/?page_id=1730

From the Repository Fringe Organising Committee

Edinburgh, Scotland  The University of Edinburgh with support from the Digital Curation Centre, EDINA, and Edinburgh University Library are delighted to announce that after its temporary incorporation into Open Repositories 2012 the Repository Fringe will return as a standalone event this year to be held in the Informatics Forum from 31 July to 2 August 2013. Further sponsors and supporters to be announced.

From Jordon Andrade and Stacy Konkiel, Florida State University

From 
program co-chairs:
 Jon W. Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington and Sarah L. Shreeves, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

OR2013 2nd Call for Proposals and Keynote Announced!

If you are traveling to code4lib join friends and colleagues at fedora4lib–the Fedora house in Chicago

An informal global library information technology community has come together at the code4lib conference since 2005 to "share approaches, techniques, and code across institutional and project divides". This year's event will be held Feb. 11-14, 2013 in Chicagp. IL (http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/).

From Ithaka S+R

Pretoria, South Africa  More than one thousand years ago the thriving Iron Age pre-colonial state of Mapungubwe existed where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers came together in an area that would later become the Kingdom of Zimbabwe. The Mapungubwe archaeological site is culturally meaningful because it provides evidence of southern Africa’s prehistory.