Sent on behalf of the Open Repositories Steering Committee
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The Open Repositories Steering Committee and the Stellenbosch University
hosts have decided to postpone the in-person conference planned for summer
2021 in Stellenbosch, South Africa, and to hold a completely virtual
conference instead. The uncertainty around the continuing pandemic, travel
restrictions, and the budget crises many of our institutions are in have
all contributed to this decision. For many of us the true value of Open
Repositories is the international conversations and community that it
fosters; we felt strongly that, even if conditions improve, an in-person
conference or a hybrid virtual/in-person would not be successful given the
likely poor attendance.
The program committee will be working to reshape the conference into a
virtual one including reaching out to those who had their 2020 OR proposals
accepted and deferred. We appreciate your patience as we do this work.
We want to reaffirm our plan to hold an Open Repositories conference in
South Africa. After working with both our Stellenbosch and our Denver hosts
(who were slated to host the 2022 OR), we have decided to continue to plan
for Denver for 2022 and to plan for Stellenbosch in 2023. Our deepest
thanks go to both hosts - Stellenbosch University Libraries and the
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries - for their flexibility and
commitment to Open Repositories.
Please do not hesitate to reach out to me as Chair or Claire Knowles as
Vice-Chair of the OR Steering Committee if you have questions.
Thank you –
Sarah Shreeves, Chair ORSC
[email protected]
Claire Knowles, Vice Chair ORSC
[email protected]
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