It's great to see a member of the ASIS&T RDAP community offering an introductory webinar for those interested about institutional repositories. I hope you'll attend if available or spread the word with folks you think would benefit from the event:<br>
<br>ASIS&T presents Crash Course in Institutional Repositories Live Webinar <br>Presented by Marisa Ramirez of <font face="Arial">DigitalCommons@CalPoly<br></font><font face="Arial"><b>Thursday,
July 28</b>,
2011, 11:30am-12:30pm (EDT)<br>Free for ASIS&T Members, $40 non-members <br></font><font face="Arial">Can't attend? Recordings will be available online.</font><br>Website: <font face="Arial"><a href="http://asist.org/Conferences/webinars/2011/crash-course-in-institutional-repositories.html">http://asist.org/Conferences/webinars/2011/crash-course-in-institutional-repositories.html</a></font><br>
<font face="Arial"><br>The webinar will cover </font><font face="Arial">software, staffing and expertise involved in successful IR, give an </font><font face="Arial">overview of how metadata, preservation, and other
related issues such as electronic theses and dissertations and digital
publishing are relevant to repositories and discuss how the Open Access Movement relates to IR. <br><br>Thanks, <br>Misty Melissa Weaver <br></font>