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From Heather G. Morrison, Simon Fraser University School of Communication

Washington, DC The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Outreach group wants to collect stories about data loss and preservation. If you've had your heart broken or uplifted by data loss or preservation, please fill out the form at http://j.mp/datastories, and/or please pass on the call for stories below. Distribute widely, as they used to say on listservs! There's no deadline, but we'll probably be taking a look at what we get in November.

The Longsight Group (http://www.longsight.com/), a DuraSpace Registered Service Provider, will be at exhibit booth 836 during the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference next week in Philadelphia (Oct. 18-21).

From OASCIR (Open Access Scientific Institutional Repository) project blog)

From Tim Donohue, DuraSpace technical lead and developer

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations, SPARC

Dublin, Ireland The Open Repositories Steering Committee seeks proposals from candidate host organisations for the 2013 and 2014 Open Repositories Annual Conferences. Preference will be given to North American hosts for OR2013, and to European hosts for OR2014. Proposals from all geographic areas will, however, are given consideration.

Important Dates

The Committee is accepting proposals to host OR2013 through October 28, 2011. Please submit initial expressions of interest by October 7, 2011.

Winchester, MA Please join Michele Kimpton, CEO of DuraSpace and Project Director of DuraCloud, and Carissa Smith, Partner Specialist, for a free introductory webinar detailing the DuraCloud service on Wednesday, September 28th at 1pm -2pm ET (for compatible times around the world, please visit: http://bit.ly/p6gwir)