conferences

Boulder, CO Early registration ends on January 17 for the ELI Annual Meeting, "Taking the Pulse: Connecting, Assessing, and Innovating," where a matrix of themes that capture the key opportunities and challenges facing the teaching and learning community will be explored. The meeting will be held February 13–15, 2012 
at the Hilton Austin in Austin, TX, and Online

Ithaca, NY Earlier this month 20 Hydra Project Partners, current and prospective, (http://projecthydra.org) met in Palo Alto to share demonstrations, institutional updates and discuss ongoing development issues and priorities.

About Hydra

From Patty Gertz, Jasig

Westminster, CO The first joint Jasig/Sakai annual conference will be held Sunday, June 10 through Friday, June 15, 2012 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. Supplementary half-day Jasig and Sakai seminars will be held on on Sunday, June 10.

More details to follow soon.

Denver, CO EDUCAUSE 2012 will be held November 6-9 2012 in Denver, Colorado and online to explore "the best thinking in higher education IT":

From Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs & Operations
SPARC

Washington, DC Proposals are now being invited for the SPARC 2012 Open Access Meeting Innovation Fair, where new technologies and strategies will be showcased in engaging, informative, rapid-fire presentations. The Innovation Fair is a highlight to the regular SPARC meeting, now set for the Kansas City Intercontinental Hotel, March 11 through 13, 2012.

Ithaca, NY The next meeting of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) will be held Jan. 11-13 in Austin, Texas at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center.

Meeting web site: http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/
Registration (early registration ends on November 30): http://sites.tdl.org/austinpasig/registration/

Edinburgh, Scotland The University of Edinburgh Information Services, EDINA, and the Digital Curation Centre are delighted to announce that the University of Edinburgh has been selected to host the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) July 9-13th July, 2012.

The call for proposals will be available from the conference web site soon: or2012.ed.ac.uk

Seattle, WA The Code4lib conference was born in a November 2005 chatroom discussion. The entusiastic code4lib community has continued to host the conference annually since then. The 2012 Conference will be held in Seattle Feb. 6-9, 2012.

Read the 2012 hosting proposal here: http://sites.google.com/site/code4lib2012seattle/

Washington, DC The 2012 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) will focus on the interconnected issues around "#sharing #linking #using #preserving." The Conference will be hosted by The George Washington University in Washington, DC June 10-14, 2012.