FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 20, 2015
Read it online: http://bit.ly/1CLmF4P
Dear DSpace Community,
It brings us great pleasure to announce that the DuraSpace Board of Directors
has chosen Debra Hanken Kurtz to serve as the new CEO for the Organization.
Kurtz is currently the Executive Director of the Texas Digital Library. She
will begin in her new role on February 16, 2015 and establish an office in
Austin, Texas to manage DuraSpace business operations.
Kurtz brings key relevant experience and skills to DuraSpace. As Executive
Director of the Texas Digital Library, she managed and grew membership,
operations, and services. She participates in working and planning groups for
DPN and SHARE. At both Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill Libraries, Kurtz
provided leadership and direction for digital collections, public websites, and
early planning efforts for both libraries’ institutional repositories. She was
an active partner within the Triangle Research Libraries Network and has been a
voice for Kuali OLE, an open-source integrated library system built by and for
academic and research libraries. Kurtz’s complete background can be found on
linkedin.
The DuraSpace team and Board of Directors is enthusiastic about working with
Kurtz and establishing the strategic direction for DuraSpace over the coming
years in the rapidly evolving landscape of digital research and scholarship.
Leveraging open source technology development to advance our communities’ goals
and objectives will continue to be a focus for the DuraSpace organization.
All member organizations will have an opportunity to meet and talk with Kurtz
at the upcoming DuraSpace Membership Summit in Washington DC on March 11-12.
Meeting invitations and details will be sent out later this week to all member
organizations.
The search was conducted by a committee of the Board, augmented by MacKenzie
Smith, University Librarian at UC Davis, and Julia Trimmer, Manager Faculty
Data Systems, Duke University.
We are grateful to everyone for their continued support throughout this
process. As a result of your ongoing interest, engagement and participation
DuraSpace is well-positioned to continue to serve our communities by providing
leadership and innovation in the development and deployment of open source
technologies and managed services that promote durable, persistent access to
digital data.
Sincerely,
Michele Kimpton, Chief Executive Officer, DuraSpace
Paul N. Courant, Chair, DuraSpace Board of Directors, University of Michigan
On behalf of the DuraSpace Board of Directors:
Dan Cohen, Executive Director, Digital Public Library of America
Mike Conlon, Co-Director, University of Florida Clinical and Translational
Science Institute, and Director of Biomedical Informatics, UF College of
Medicine
Paul N. Courant, Harold T. Shapiro Professor of Public Policy, Professor of
Economics, and Professor of Information, the University of Michigan
Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist and Associate Director of Digital
Library Systems & Services, Stanford University
Charles J. Henry, President, Council on Library and Information Resources
Anne Jarvis, University Librarian, University of Cambridge
Heather Joseph, Executive Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources
Coalition
Tyler Walters, Dean of University Libraries, Virginia Tech University
Laura C. Wood, Director of Tisch Library, Tufts University
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