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Palo Alto, CA Tom Cramer, Associate Director, Digital Library Systems & Services, Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources, has announced that there will be a Hydra Partners meeting on November 4, 5 and 6th at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. These meetings are open to the Hydra community. Both current and prospective members are encouraged to participate.

Ithaca, NY The good stuff is always kept in the “vault.” The remarkable resources in the University of British Columbia Library Vault are no exception. Who would display things like amazing animal images, artworks, postcards, historic photographs, scholarly papers, and fanciful ethnic images on a ordinary virtual shelf?

Johannesburg, South Africa The Library and Information Service,University of Stellenbosch will host the Virtual Seminar on Open Access to Information on October 20, 2010 (14h00-17h30 (UTC+2), Africa/Johannesburg Timezon) online at http://oa.sun.ac.za.
The seminar is part of activities worldwide in support of open access to information, celebrated during Open Access Week 18-24 October 2010.

Avila, Spain IADIS International Conference E-Society 2011 has issued a call for full and short papers, reflection papers, posters/demonstrations, tutorials, panels and a doctoral consortium for the IADIS e-Society 2011 Conference to be held March 10-13, 2011 in Avila, Spain. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process. The deadline for submissions is October 29, 2010. More information is available here:

Ithaca NY arXiv, a physics e-Print Archive, has been in operation since 1991. The arXiv web site explains: “arXiv.org (formerly xxx.lanl.gov) is a highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles.

DSpace has added over 500 automated tests into its main codebase. These tests were developed as part of the new DSpace testing framework created through the Google Summer of Code 2010 scheme. A Spanish student, a software development mentor in New Zealand, a host company in Ireland, and a worldwide network of supporting developers worked together to undertake a project to design and implement this new testing framework for the DSpace repository platform.

Ithaca, NY Summer sojourns come in many varieties. For leaders and participants in the third Red Island Repository Institute (RIRI) hosted by the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) in Charlottetown, Canada, red sand beaches, lobster and deep dives into the inner workings of Fedora—open source flexible extensible, digital object repository software—were a logical combination for a destination experience focused around technology education and the natural beauty of Prince Edward Island.