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From Imma Subriats, Knowledge and Information Management Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

From Neil Fraistat Professor of English & Director Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland

From Jennifer McLennan, SPARC

Washington, DC SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has announced it will host its first North American meeting on Open Access in 2012. The first of its kind, the event will expand on the successful biennial SPARC Digital Repositories meeting.

Save the date: Kansas City, March 11-13, 2012

Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will fund expansion of popular cloud storage service
 

Boston, MA On Saturday, July 10, 2011 Boston Globe readers got in on the truly amazing ability to to "see"  both broad and detailed views of the history of local news from 1960-2000 at the Boston TV News Digital Library based on Fedora repository software:

http://bostonlocaltv.org/

The Boston Globe story contains video clips from four collections:

From the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services

From the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

From Bonnie Wilson, D-Lib Magazine

The July/August 2011 issue of D-Lib Magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) is now available.

This issue contains four articles, two conference reports, several short pieces in the 'In Brief' column, excerpts from recent press releases, and news of upcoming conferences and other items of interest in 'Clips and Pointers'.  This month, D-Lib features the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives web site.

The articles include:

Winchester, MA The Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12) will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh in Scotland from July 9-13, 2012. To get announcements about this event and other OR-related communications, you may join the OR announcements mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories.