Fw: DuraSpace CEO to join ASU

[Fiore, Steve]

I thought some might be interested in this.  If you're not familiar with DurSpace, here is a link (http://www.duraspace.org/about/). 

Best,

Steve

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Stephen M. Fiore, Ph.D.

Professor, Cognitive Sciences, Department of Philosophy 

Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Institute for Simulation & Training (http://csl.ist.ucf.edu/)

University of Central Florida

sfi...@ist.ucf.edu

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From: DuraSpace <kse...@duraspace.org>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2018 8:01 AM
To: Fiore, Steve
Subject: DuraSpace CEO to join ASU

 

Debra Hanken Kurtz, DuraSpace CEO, to join Arizona State University as Associate University Librarian Debra Hanken Kurtz will leave her post as CEO at DuraSpace to serve as the Associate University Librarian for Technology Services at Arizona State University Library. As of June 1, Erin Tripp, Business Development Manager at DuraSpace, will serve as the Interim Chief Executive Officer. Valorie Hollister, DuraSpace Director of Membership and Finance, and Bill Branan, Duraspace Services Technical Director, will assist Ms. Tripp with the transition. As CEO, Ms. Hanken Kurtz brought a focus on expanded mission, community engagement, transparency, and openness to DuraSpace. Her commitment to increased engagement with the international user communities and the broader scholarly ecosystem fostered new memberships, new strategic partnerships and new projects under the DuraSpace umbrella. Under her leadership, the membership program brought in new members and refined the project governance, leading to a 94% membership retention rate. With her guidance, the DuraSpace hosted services business more than doubled, providing much needed archiving and preservation services to the community as well as additional support for our open source projects through revenues from hosted services. Organizationally, Ms. Hanken Kurtz helped DuraSpace achieve greater financial stability and to mature DuraSpace’s business practices. “DuraSpace is in the healthiest shape it’s ever been under Debra’s leadership,” said Tyler Walters, Board President of DuraSpace. “I know Board members are grateful for all her efforts and accomplishments. We wish her well in her new post at ASU.” Ms. Hanken Kurtz returns to academic librarianship to work more closely with the creators and users of repository and research outputs and to help preserve content and make it more easily accessible for scholars of every stripe. At ASU, she will have the opportunity to deepen her commitment to local and global activities that foster inclusivity in the scholarly ecosystem. Ms. Hanken Kurtz said, “It has been a great privilege and pleasure to have served as CEO at DuraSpace as they have grown in staff, membership, and funding, broadened their scope, and extended the community’s collective reach. I am so proud of all we have accomplished and I look forward to continuing to support its mission as a community member.” If you are receiving this message from DuraSpace, it is our understanding that you have at one point expressed interest in it, and provided us with your contact details. If this is not the case and you would like to stop receiving our messages simply follow the 'unsubscribe' link found at the bottom. We are confident that we are only sending messages to people that want to receive them and will continue to guard your privacy as we bring you the latest updates on the DuraSpace communities.

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[Debra Hanken Kurtz]

Dear All,

Apologies for the delayed response and thanks to Steve for sharing the link to DuraSpace. Here is also a link from my last address as CEO at our membership summit in April https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1A2B-Au5Or6HafmH5JVmTMeXwuVptSB2qumpcJXSIZTo/edit?usp=sharing

DuraSpace is a strong, mission-driven organization, one that I will continue to support and champion from my position at ASU. They continue to grow and extend their reach to work with a global community to advance OSS and open research and access. I encourage you to learn more about the organization and get involved in OSS activities at your institutions as I believe they align and can advance other open intiatives. 

On a personal note, I would love to continue to participate in this group using my new address. As I return to role more directly part of the academic community, I would like to be involved in conversations I see on this list.

Sincere thanks,

---debra

Debra Hanken Kurtz
CEO

Mob.: (919) 604-2100
Skype: dhanken11

Twitter: @debra
Email: dkurtz@duraspace.org

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