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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear ArchivesSpace members,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You may have already seen across your professional networks this morning that LYRASIS and Duraspace have announced an Intent to Merge. More information is in the press release below and in the FAQ linked from it. After a period of further
investigation by the governing boards of the two organizations, the merger vote is expected to happen later this winter.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">While there are still a number of details to be worked out, I think the potential to have the community supported programs of LYRASIS, including ArchivesSpace, and the projects of Duraspace, including DSpace and Fedora, under one organizational
umbrella is very exciting and potentially opens up a number of avenues for collaboration for our community and others. Also, please know that there are no changes imminent for ArchivesSpace itself. We’ll continue to be the strong community we’ve all built
that’s guided first and foremost by your needs and interests. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hope this helps place this news in context. Though we likely won’t have all the answers at this time, please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Christine<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Christine Di Bella<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">ArchivesSpace Program Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:christine.dibella@lyrasis.org"><span style="color:#0563C1">christine.dibella@lyrasis.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">800.999.8558 x2905<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Atlanta, GA - January 24, 2019 - LYRASIS and DuraSpace announce their intent to merge, forming a robust new home for Community-Supported Programs and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">LYRASIS, an innovative full-service technology and services nonprofit, and DuraSpace, which specializes in open source technologies, plan to join their world-class 501(c)(3) nonprofit
teams in 2019. LYRASIS is a recognized leader in building and delivering solutions to academic and public libraries, museums, and archives. DuraSpace is a best of class team providing leadership and innovation for open technologies used by academic, scientific,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The combined organization will serve over 1,200 members and 3,500 organizational users across the globe. With a vision of leading community focused innovation, the increased scale
and sustainability of a combined organization will provide better value and benefits to members of LYRASIS and DuraSpace.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A new division of LYRASIS, the DuraSpace Community Supported Programs Division, will be formed to accelerate the pace of development for a combined 8 global open source technology
communities, including DSpace, Fedora, VIVO, DuraCloud, ArchivesSpace, CollectionSpace, SimplyE public, and SimplyE academic. DuraSpace hosted services, DuraCloud, DSpaceDirect, and ArchivesDirect, will also transition to LYRASIS. In addition, a thought leadership
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Robert Miller, LYRASIS CEO says "The DuraSpace contribution and commitment to openness as it applies to academic communities has always stood out to me. They have built a phenomenal
team, attracted a blue ribbon board, and earned the support and trust of their prestigious members. We are honored to join together with DuraSpace. Our collective memberships will benefit from increased economies of scale and having a bigger seat at the table
as we work together to design and build better end-to-end solutions. We are eager to add DuraSpace's voice to ours."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Erin Tripp, DuraSpace's Executive Director explains that "While DuraSpace is in its strongest financial position ever, the synergies of joining our two organizations will allow us
to leverage a larger organization and member base to amplify our voice. Our missions and memberships are already converging. Taking this next step to merge our organizations will provide access to staff and investment dollars to accelerate the pace of global,
community-supported open source software development. Together, we can steward viable alternatives to proprietary products."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Following a brief period to complete due diligence, the Boards of the two non-profit organizations will hold a merger vote. If affirmed, the merger will proceed at a pace to ensure
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In the proposed merger between DuraSpace and LYRASIS, LYRASIS will remain the parent organization and legal entity. The DuraSpace brand, stewardship of DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO, and
fiscal sponsorship supports will transition to the new DuraSpace Community Supported Programs Division of LYRASIS. DuraSpace hosted services (DuraCloud, DSpaceDirect, and ArchivesDirect) will also transition to LYRASIS. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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For more information, please see the <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=fihgdj5ab.0.0.64z577bab.0&id=preview&r=3&p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lyrasis.org%2FLeadership%2FPages%2FLYRASIS%2BDuraSpace-FAQ.aspx" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">About LYRASIS</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
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membership organization of more than 1,000 libraries, museums, and archives supports enduring access to our shared academic, scientific and cultural heritage through leadership in open technologies, content services, digital solutions and collaboration with
archives, libraries, museums and knowledge communities worldwide. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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