LYRASIS, a global nonprofit serving libraries, archives, museums and research communities, announces the acquisition of BiblioLabs, LLC., a Charleston, SC-based library technology firm. The acquisition will bring together two organizations on the leading edge of library software and support services. Why LYRASIS and BiblioLabs? The organizations share a mission to empower libraries with modern cultural … Read More
LYRASIS and Michigan Publishing announce the successful integration of the Fulcrum platform with Library Simplified/SimplyE and The Readium Foundation’s Thorium Desktop Reader. This initiative brings together three open source reading and content delivery platforms, utilizing entirely open standards and technologies. By working together, the partners are improving discovery and access for ebooks and supporting the … Read More
The following fall featured offers are expiring soon: Creekside Digital 2020 Fall Special Offer Creekside Digital is pleased to offer LYRASIS members an additional 5% on all newspaper scans, both in print and microfilm/fiche form Projects must be quoted and confirmed as proceeding by November 30th, 2020 Please contact your member outreach representative to take advantage … Read More
Dear DSpace Community, The DSpace Leadership Group, the DSpace Committers and LYRASIS are proud to announce that DSpace 7.0 Beta 4 is now available for download and testing. Beta 4 is the fourth scheduled Beta release provided for community feedback and to introduce the new features of the 7.0 platform. As a Beta release, we … Read More
Skilltype was created for the library and information science community to analyze, grow, and share expertise. Last week, we announced our partnership with LYRASIS to help distribute, develop, and support Skilltype moving forward. As a new company and software platform, we get questions every day about both our product and business. In this guest post, … Read More
Take a closer look at CollectionSpace 6.0–available now! The LYRASIS CollectionSpace team is delighted to announce the release of CollectionSpace 6.0 with exciting new features and improvements. CollectionSpace is a community-supported collections management (CMS) solution for museums and other collecting institutions, providing standards-based collections management workflows, robust tools to store and describe a wide variety … Read More
Call for Proposals is open! The 2020 VIVO conference task force invites proposals for the eleventh annual VIVO conference to be held June 16 – 18, 2020 online. Please submit abstracts for presentations, workshops, posters, or demos before May 15, 2020. Focus topics and trends Persistent identifiers of interest in scholarship Open data sources Non-traditional … Read More
The DSpace Leadership Group, the DSpace Committers and LYRASIS are proud to announce that DSpace 7.0 Beta 2 is now available for download and testing. Beta 2 is the second scheduled Beta release provided for community feedback and to introduce the new features of the 7.0 platform. As a Beta release, we highly advise against … Read More
The most recent i18n VIVO sprint ended on Friday, April 17.https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/VIVO/Sprint+-+i18n+Editing The team consisted of ten participants from 6 different organizations. The top-level objective of the ongoing effort is to establish a clearly-documented capability within VIVO to add new and enable existing languages such that both the static text as well as the site-specific data … Read More
Originally posted here. Beginning on Friday, March 20, access restrictions will be removed for all 1,150+ titles in the University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection (UMP EBC) until the end of April 2020. The UMP EBC contains the Press’s scholarly output published since 2012 as well as new books and older titles as they are … Read More
VIVO 1.11.1 is a point release containing two patches to the previous 1.11.0 release: Security patch that now prevents users with self-edit privileges from editing other user profiles [1] Minor security patch to underlying puppycrawl dependency (CVE-2019-9658) [2] Upgrading from 1.11.0 to 1.11.1 should be a trivial drop-in replacement. If you are upgrading from 1.10 … Read More
Atlanta, GA – March 5, 2020 – Version 7.0 Beta 1 of DSpace, one of the leading open source repositories used in more than 2500 installations globally, is now available for download and testing. Beta 1 is the first of several scheduled Beta releases provided for community feedback and to introduce the new features of the 7.0 platform. … Read More