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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><img width=239 height=58 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image002.png@01CEBE16.7AE85ED0" alt="Description: Macintosh HD:Users:samheartsart:Desktop:ArchivesSpace Logo.png"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Announcement: Release of ArchivesSpace 1.0<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The ArchivesSpace project team is pleased to announce the release of ArchivesSpace 1.0. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>ArchivesSpace 1.0 is open source software; the application and its source code are available on <a href="https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v1.0.0">Github</a>. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://archivesspace.github.com/archivesspace/doc/" target="_blank" title="Build instructions"><span style='color:#040482;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>Build instructions and technical documentation</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> are also provided for the more technically inclined. A full list of all enhancements and bug fixes is available in the </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/wiki/Changelog" target="_blank" title="software change log"><span style='color:#040482;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>software change log</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>An ArchivesSpace 1.0 sandbox is available for users wanting to test the application before implementing it locally. The staff interface is at </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://sandbox.archivesspace.org/">http://sandbox.archivesspace.org/</a>, while the public interface is at <a href="http://sandbox.archivesspace.org:8081/">http://sandbox.archivesspace.org:8081/</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Tools for migrating data from an Archon or Archivists’ Toolkit instance to an ArchivesSpace instance will be released in October, first to ArchivesSpace Charter members who will have exclusive access to the tools for the first ninety days after their release, followed by ArchivesSpace members who will have exclusive access for a second ninety-day period. The migration tools will be made available to the general user community 180 days after their release. In the meantime, we have posted guidelines to help users prepare for migrating their Archon or Archivists’ Toolkit data [</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://www.archivesspace.org/documents/preparing-data-for-migration-to-archivesspace-1-0/">http://www.archivesspace.org/documents/preparing-data-for-migration-to-archivesspace-1-0/</a>]</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Please direct questions about the release and reports of bugs using the Feedback option provided in the ArchivesSpace application interface. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.0pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>About ArchivesSpace<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>ArchivesSpace 1.0 <span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>is the product of a </span>p<span style='color:black'>artnership among the </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://library.nyu.edu/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#040482;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>New York University Libraries</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://libraries.ucsd.edu/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#040482;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>UC San Diego Library</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>, and </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://www.library.illinois.edu/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#040482;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#040482;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>. </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>It has been developed by Hudson Molonglo, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> with <span style='color:black'>funding from the </span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://www.mellon.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#040482;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>Andrew W. Mellon Foundation</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#040482;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>organizational support from </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://www.lyrasis.org/" target="_blank" title=Lyrasis><span style='color:#040482;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>LYRASIS</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#040482;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>, </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>and contributions from diverse persons in the archives community. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:11.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Questions about ArchivesSpace development should be directed to the ArchivesSpace Program Manager (</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="mailto:brad.westbrook@lyrasis.org">brad.westbrook@lyrasis.org</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>). Questions regarding membership should be directed to </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="mailto:ArchivesSpaceHome@lyrasis.org"><span style='color:#040482;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>ArchivesSpaceHome@lyrasis.org</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bradley D. 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