[IRTalk] Open Repositories 2021 Shifting to Virtual Only

Tue Oct 20 13:35:02 SAST 2020

The Open Repositories Steering Committee and the Stellenbosch University hosts have decided to postpone the in-person conference planned for summer 2021 in Stellenbosch, South Africa, and to hold a completely virtual conference instead. The uncertainty around the continuing pandemic, travel restrictions, and the budget crises many of our institutions are in have all contributed to this decision. For many of us the true value of Open Repositories is the international conversations and community that it fosters; we felt strongly that, even if conditions improve, an in-person conference or a hybrid virtual/in-person would not be successful given the likely poor attendance.

The program committee will be working to reshape the conference into a virtual one including reaching out to those who had their 2020 OR proposals accepted and deferred. We appreciate your patience as we do this work.

We want to reaffirm our plan to hold an Open Repositories conference in South Africa. After working with both our Stellenbosch and our Denver hosts (who were slated to host the 2022 OR), we have decided to continue to plan for Denver for 2022 and to plan for Stellenbosch in 2023. Our deepest thanks go to both hosts - Stellenbosch University Libraries and the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries - for their flexibility and commitment to Open Repositories.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me as Chair or Claire Knowles as Vice-Chair of the OR Steering Committee if you have questions.

        Thank you –

        Sarah Shreeves, Chair ORSC
        sshreeves at arizona.edu<mailto:sshreeves at arizona.edu>

        Claire Knowles, Vice Chair ORSC
        c.knowles1 at leeds.ac.uk<mailto:c.knowles1 at leeds.ac.uk>

Kind Regards / Vriendelike Groete

Paulette Talliard

Librarian: Digital Scholarship | Bibliotekaresse: Digitale Akademieskap

Library and Information Service | Biblioteek- en Inligtingsdiens

Stellenbosch University Library | Universiteit Stellenbosch Biblioteek

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