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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear ArchivesSpace members, colleagues, and friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I am very pleased to announce the results of this year’s election for members to the ArchivesSpace Governance Board. They are: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Christian Dupont, Burns Librarian and Associate University Librarian for Special Collections, Boston College, Large membership level, first two-year term ending June 2017<br>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Gerald (Jay) Gaidmore, Marian Y. Alan McLeod Director of the Special Collections Research Center, College of William & Mary, Medium membership level, second two-year term ending June 2017<br>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thomas Adams, Systems & Digital Project Developer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Very Small
<b>m</b>embership level, first two-year term ending June 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Voting for the Middle membership level ended in a tie, which was resolved Tuesday, Aug. 4, with a coin toss between the two candidates. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I am also happy to announce that Robert Miller, CEO of LYRASIS, is succeeding Kate Nevins as the voting representative of LYRASIS and that Jay Schafer, Director of Libraries University of Massachusetts -Amherst, is
succeeding Kathy Ray as the ex officio representative of the LYRASIS board. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The ArchivesSpace program and community are fortunate that the enthusiastic and capable people that departed the board at the end of this past year—Kate Nevins, Kathy Ray, Tim Pyatt, and Chris Ervin—are being
succeeded by equally enthusiastic and capable people. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Governance Board roster, updated for 2015/16, is posted at <a href="https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ABT/Current+Roster+of+Members"><span style="color:windowtext">https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ABT/Current+Roster+of+Members</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and <a href="http://archivesspace.org/board"><span style="color:windowtext">http://archivesspace.org/board</span></a>. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The next Governance Board meeting is scheduled for Saturday morning, August 22, in Cleveland, Ohio. While Governance Board meetings are not open to the membership, Board members will be present and available
for question and conversation at the ArchivesSpace member meeting that afternoon at the Cleveland Public Library. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Looking forward to seeing many of you at the members meeting!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Yours,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Brad W. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bradley D. Westbrook<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Program Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:brad@archivesspace.org"><span style="color:#1F497D">brad.westbrook@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 x2910<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">678.235.2910<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">bradley_d_westbrook (Skype) </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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