Humanities

The University of Pittsburgh Library System is the 26th-largest academic research library in North America providing innovative services and stunning digital collections that include books, manuscripts, historic documents, images and more.

http://www.pitt.edu/libraries.html
http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/

From Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute

Atlanta, GA We are pleased to announce the publication of Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation, edited by Nancy Y. McGovern (Volume Editor).

http://www.educopia.org/publications

Hong Kong The 16th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) will be held in Hong Kong September 23-26, 2013. The theme for the conference is "ETD 2013: Asian Values, Western Thought, World Treasure!"

http://lib.hku.hk/etd2013

Winchester, MA DuraSpace, a leader in open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, took the leap into cloud computing with the launch of the DuraCloud managed service and open source software in 2011.  DuraSpace took that leap because it is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to contributing to the preservation of the world's vital intellectual, cultural and scientific heritage.

From Charles W. Bailey, Jr, Publisher, Digital Scholarship

Houston, TX  Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Resource Guide:

http://digital-scholarship.org/dcrg/dcrg.htm

This resource guide presents over 200 selected English-language websites and documents that are useful in understanding and conducting digital curation. It covers

Washington, DC This year's Open Access Week theme is "Set the Default to Open Access" for Open Access Week (October 22 – 28, 2012). Our first online event to launch this year’s events will be a webcast with three speakers who will showcase the state of open access in each of their countries.

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

From Art Pasquinelli, Director Digital Libraries, Repositories, and Preservation, Oracle

From Joshua Sternfeld, Senior Program Officer, Division of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities