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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Please share with Carol and Valerie any new developments in terms of repositories. Many, many thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ina<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Valorie Hollister [mailto:vhollister@duraspace.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> 07 October 2011 17:50<br><b>To:</b> Rosemary Otando; Ezra Shiloba Gbaje; Stephen Akintude; Abed Corletey; Yohannes Mulugeta; Smith, Ina <ismith@sun.ac.za>; Paul Samwel Muneja; Sten Christensen; Iryna Kuchma<br><b>Cc:</b> Carol Minton Morris<br><b>Subject:</b> news items featuring African repositories<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All - <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We would very much like to feature some of the new (or soon to be launched) African repositories for DuraSpace's Open Access week news items. Based on Michele Kimpton's visit with you a few weeks ago at the ETD meeting in South Africa it sounds like some great things are happening!<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Is there any chance we could get a list of some of the repository projects going on, including a brief description about the content? It would be great if the repositories were public and available -- but we would also be interested in hearing about projects that are soon to be launched. A quick description with a few sample bits of content or things that make the repository interesting. We are looking to produce something similar to this: <a href="http://www.duraspace.org/node/894">http://www.duraspace.org/node/894</a>. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>(See Carol's previous msg below for more info).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks in advance -<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Valorie Hollister<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Director of Community Programs<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>DuraSpace<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:vhollister@duraspace.org">vhollister@duraspace.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Carol Minton Morris <<a href="mailto:cmmorris@fedora-commons.org">cmmorris@fedora-commons.org</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Date: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>September 28, 2011 1:45:42 PM EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>To: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Rosemary Otando <<a href="mailto:rosemary.otando@uonbi.ac.ke">rosemary.otando@uonbi.ac.ke</a>>, Ezra Shiloba Gbaje <<a href="mailto:shiloba@yahoo.com">shiloba@yahoo.com</a>>, Stephen Akintude <<a href="mailto:sakintun@gmail.com">sakintun@gmail.com</a>>, Abed Corletey <<a href="mailto:corletey1@yahoo.com">corletey1@yahoo.com</a>>, Yohannes Mulugeta <<a href="mailto:yohannesmulu@gmail.com">yohannesmulu@gmail.com</a>>, Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:ismith@sun.ac.za">ismith@sun.ac.za</a>>, Paul Samwel Muneja <<a href="mailto:pmuneja@udsm.ac.tz">pmuneja@udsm.ac.tz</a>>, Sten Christensen <<a href="mailto:sten.christensen@sydney.edu.au">sten.christensen@sydney.edu.au</a>>, Iryna Kuchma <<a href="mailto:iryna.kuchma@eifl.net">iryna.kuchma@eifl.net</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Cc: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Valorie Hollister <<a href="mailto:vhollister@duraspace.org">vhollister@duraspace.org</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Subject: Invitation to participate in a DuraSpace Open Access Week article</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Reply-To: </span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:cmmorris@duraspace.org">cmmorris@duraspace.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Dear Community Members,<br><br>I am writing to ask for your help in developing an article that will highlight the growth of DSpace open access repositories in Africa to celebrate Open Access Week October 24-30, 2011 (<a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/">http://www.openaccessweek.org/</a>). <br><br>In 2004 there were 9 DSpace instances in Africa. Due to many of your efforts as DSpace Ambassadors that number has increased to 46 today! It would be of interest to our community if you could provide information about what's "in" some of these repositories–scholarly resources, learning objects, scanned books, special collections rich media such as images, music or videos and/or other types of resources. Examples of how resources are being used–in schools, by government, universities, etc. would also be of interest. <br><br>Anything you provide should be very short, anectodal and perhaps reflect your personal "favorite" DSpace repository resource(s) rather than general overviews. I would be happy to do further research into any information you send along. Please let me know by Friday Oct. 7 if you would like to participate.<br><br>Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you–I am looking forward to hearing from you!<br><br>All the best,<br>Carol<br clear=all><br>-- <br>Carol Minton Morris<br>DuraSpace<br>Director of Marketing and Communications<br><a href="mailto:cmmorris@DuraSpace.org">cmmorris@DuraSpace.org</a><br>Skype: carolmintonmorris<br>607 592-3135<br><a href="http://twitter.com/duraspace" target="_blank">Twitter@DuraSpace</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/duracloud" target="_blank">Twitter@DuraCloud</a><br><a href="http://DuraSpace.org/" target="_blank">http://DuraSpace.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>