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Boston, MA In January, the Boston Library Consortium hosted “Sloan Summit II: Open Access – Mission and Mandate,” at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.  The Summit program provided an opportunity for University administrators, especially provosts and vice presidents of research, and Boston Library Consortium (BLC) members to explore open accessissues and determine appropriate activities for their institutions.

Do you have experience using DSpace or Fedora? Could you write a description of the Fedora Digital Object Data Model? Could you record a short screencast on how to maximize DSpace’s batch metadata editing feature? If so, you could win a $50 Amazon gift card!

Ithaca, NY Get a sneak peak of the DuraCloud web interface, view the dashboard reporting features, as well as learn how to run DuraCloud services. The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) has invited the DuraCloud team to conduct an introductory webinar next Wednesday, Feburary 1:

Web Seminar: Introduction to the DuraCloud Service
Wednesday, Feburary 1, 2012 from 1:00pm -2:00pm ET

From Atifa Rawan and Yan Han, University of Arizona Libraries

New York, NY If you are looking to increase your video views with better Video SEO, this Webinar will explain the challenges and techniques for getting video content found and properly indexed by search engines. The webinar will also feature a hands-on walkthrough of SEO friendly video publishing with Kaltura, and give you a sneak peek at what Kaltura and Google have planned for 2012.

Please join us for an exciting webinar and your chance to ask our experts questions during Q&A time.

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

A New Community Home for DSpace and Fedora Learning Resources   

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":

Stuart L. Baker and Michele Kimpton at their EDUCAUSE presentation, “DuraCloud: Preserving the Scholarly Record." Photograph by Jonathan Markow.

PART ONE: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana This is the first of a five-part series that looks at Open Access repository development in twelve African countries in celebration of Open Access Week Oct. 24-30, 2011