Open Repositories 2007 is a success!

With 18 plenary speakers, 40+ user group presentations, and over 350 attendees, Open Repositories 2007 was a great success! The conference proceedings are available online at the conference website: http://openrepositories.org/2007/program/presentations. Plans have already been made for next year's conference, to be held in Southampton, UK, from April 1-4, 2008. More information is available at the OR08 website: http://openrepositories.org/2008/. If we missed you in January, be sure to make plans to attend next year!

Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL)

Registration for The Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) May 30 - June 1, 2007, in Austin is now available. The conference is free and open to anyone but space is limited; please visit http://www.tdl.org/tcdl for more information.

Open Repositories 2007 approaching fast

The second international conference on Open Repositories will be held the third week in January, 2007. Along with The University of Texas, and the Texas Digital Library, Texas A&M is a hosting institution. The accepted program -- both the open user group meetings for DSpace, Fedora and EPrints as well as the Plenary sessions -- look great; the presentations should be top-notch. Full information and registration info can be found at the OR07 website. See you there!

Google's digital library project still causing trouble....

This time it's not from the publishers, though, but from a group concerned with the idea that Google would control so much of our cultural heritage: Already facing a legal challenge for alleged copyright infringement, Google's crusade to build a digital library has triggered a philosophical debate with an alternative project promising better online access to the world's books, art and historical documents. Read the full article on CNN.com.

Texas Digital Library

The Texas Digital Library (TDL) has gone live! TDL's mission is to provide a digital infrastructure for the scholarly activities of Texas universities. On university campuses throughout Texas, an enormous amount of intellectual capital exists that is not readily available to faculty, staff, and students throughout the State. TDL will serve as the center of excellence for the creation, curation, and preservation of digital scholarly information for the State. The site is using the Manakin software developed at Texas A&M.