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From William Nixon and Stuart Macdonald, On behalf of OR2012 Programme Committee

Edinburgh, Scotland We are counting down to the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) on 9-13 July, 2012 and are delighted to announce that we are able to extend the Early Booking rate until Monday 18 June. The Early Booking rate is £295 with a full-price rate of £350 thereafter. There is also a day rate of £115.

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:

New partners, expanded communities mean more learning opportunities for librarians, repository managers, researchers, and technologists

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

Ithaca, NY The DuraCloud team will host the third in a new series of web events to familiarize customers and the general public with DuraCloud features this Wednesday, May 30th at 12:30pm ET. Wednesday's brown bag session will detail the content health checking capabilities in DuraCloud, how they automatically run over your content as it is stored in DuraCloud, and how you can access the health reports directly from the online DuraCloud dashboard.

From Stuart Macdonald on behalf of OR2012 Organizing Committee

Edinburgh, UK Registration for OR2012 workshops on Monday July 9 and Tuesday July 10 is now open and available at www.or2012.eventbrite.com. Please note that the workshops are free but you will need the EDN number from your receipt from ePay registration system (http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/registration/) to register for the workshops.

Ithaca, NY In a recent Campus Technology article (May 1, "DuraCloud Offers Redundant Storage Across Multiple Cloud Providers": http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2012/05/01/DuraCloud-Offers-Redundant-Storage-Across-Multiple-Cloud-Providers.aspx?Page=3) author Alicia Brazington points out that academia is often nervous about entrusting precious and irreplacable digital assets to cloud storage providers.