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From Tim Donohue on behalf of the DSpace Committers Team

Ithaca, NY The DSpace Committers Team is delighted to announce a new member to the group: Ivan Masár, also known as "helix84". Please join us in welcoming him!

From Todd Sedmak, Communications Manager, Internet2

Ann Arbor, MI Internet2 (http://www.internet2.edu/) released today the following statement regarding the official launch of US Ignite (http://us-ignite.org/) by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy.

A recording of “Describing Audio & Video Digital Media with Metadata” presented by Kara Van Malssen and Chris Beer is now available: http://duraspace.org/web_seminars. This web seminar is part of the Hot Topics DuraSpace Community Webinar Series “All About Audio and Video Content in Repositories,” curated by Karen Cariani, WGBH Boston.

From Martha Anderson, NDIIPP, Library of Congress

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce the launch of the Digital Preservation Awards 2012.

The application pack is available online at: http://www.dpconline.org/advocacy/awards

Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

Washington, DC In the latest CNI Conversations podcast (http://wp.me/p1LncT-2oE), CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch speaks with James Hilton, Chief Information Officer at the University of Virginia, about the Digital Preservation Network (DPN), an initiative which aims to create a federated approach to preservation of academic content:

Ithaca, NY The University of Maryland Health and Human Services Library celebrated the one year anniversary of establishing the UM Digital Archive on May 4, 2012. In an article in the Connective Issues newsletter M. J.

Edinburgh, Scotland The Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories will take place July 9-13, 2012. The OR2012 Programme Committee has announced that the draft program is now available at: https://www.conftool.net/or2012/sessions.php

From Bram Luyten, @mire

Ithaca, NY The World Bank recently announced adoption of an Open Access policy thereby joining institutions, organizations and advocates around the world who are making research outputs broadly accessible. The policy will go into effect on July 1, 2012.

From Rebecca Fairbairn, Public Relations Manager, BioMed Central

London, UK Open access publisher BioMed Central presented the Open Access Advocate of the Year award at their recent 6th Annual Research Awards ceremony held at Emirates Stadium, UK on Thursday 17th May. Dr Helena Asamoah-Hassan, University Librarian of the Kwame University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana and a Fellow of the Ghana Library Association was only the second individual winner of this prestigious award.