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Atlanta, Georgia To find out more about the broad range of OR09 topics spanning repository implementations for education, research, science, and cultural heritage browse the OR09 program now available here: https://or09.library.gatech.edu/schedule.php.
• Early bird registration has been extended until this Friday, April 24th. The registration URL is:  https://or09.library.gatech.edu/registration.php  (One and two day registrations are now available.)

“Moving Into the Mainstream, Enabling Our Digital Future” is the theme of  iPRES 2009 (http://www.cdlib.org/iPres/index.html) scheduled for October 5-6, 2009 in San Francisco, CA.

Washington, D.C. If your department, college or university is looking for ways to encourage students to express ideas, enthusiasm and understanding of Open Access (OA), the 2009 SPARKY Video Contest may be a good fit. The competition showcases student videos, promotes library services and offers instructors a fun and thought-provoking class assignment.

Aberystwyth, UK Hear directly from many of the people who are engaged in developing repository architectures and implementations in a new series of podcasts from The Repositories Support Project (RSP).  RSP is a JISC initiative that supports the development and growth of the UK repositories network. The podcast series is designed to help you keep up with evolving information, best practices, and discussions.

The Digital Humanities Observatory will hold a symposium in Second Life, “The Idea of an Irish Digital Scholarly Imprint,” on Tuesday March 31, 2009. The day-long event will feature talks by John Fitzgerald (UCC), Ruth Hegarty (RIA), John Lavagnino, (NUIG), and Brad Scott (Publishing Consultant).
Full details can be found here: http://dho.ie/irishimprint

Ithaca, NY This issue of the Fedora Commons HatCheck newsletter features overviews of technical and community developments as well as trends and information about how new kinds of projects are using Fedora.

Ithaca, NY, Boulder, CO  NSDL EduPak, an open source digital library services platform for education, is a publicly available, lightweight version of NCore (http://NCore.nsdl.org), established in 2008 as an open-source digital library platform of technology and standards that create a dynamic information layer on top of library resources. The NSDL EduPak 1.0 release is set for March 30, 2009 and may be downloaded here.

Ithaca, NY For better or for worse many of us seem to enjoy tweeting kernals of information in 140 characters or less. The Pew/Internet and American Life Project reports:

11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.

By Thornton Staples A Wunderkammer, or chamber of curiosities, was a precursor to the modern museum. During the Rennaissance kings, noblemen and rich burghers with an interest in the arts and sciences collected objects of varying kinds: stones precious and semi-precious, fossils, pieces of art and exotic artifacts. They stored and displayed them in purpose-designed rooms, Wunderkammers, which were pieces of furniture also known as Cabinets of Curiosities.