Exciting news from Discovery Garden and Born-Digital
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Noah Smith
Sep 9, 2025, 2:24:56 PMSep 9
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Fellow Islandorans,
We’re writing to let you know that Discovery Garden and Born-Digital have decided to merge operations. The paperwork has been completed, and this merger is effective as of September 5, 2025. The result is that Born-Digital will operate as an American subsidiary of Discovery Garden. We will continue to offer both Enterprise and Cloud solutions. With regards to the Islandora Foundation, our joint intent is to continue with all of the commitments both companies have recently made to implement Islandora’s Strategic Plan in the coming year.
Our staff will be working to integrate our technical and services functions over coming weeks and months. Our clients have already been informed of this news, and we wanted to let the larger community know about this exciting next step. We will be sending out a public press release next week and updating our websites to reflect the organizational changes. We are also coordinating with Aubrey to find a time for community discussion, perhaps as part of an upcoming open meeting.
This merger unites decades of collective service and expertise, positioning us to better support and sustain the Islandora community and the Foundation as we move forward together.
Looking forward to continuing to collaborate with you all,
Noah Smith
CTO Discovery Garden + Born-Digital
Gerry Lawless
CEO Discovery Garden + Born-Digital
We’re writing to let you know that Discovery Garden and Born-Digital have decided to merge operations. The paperwork has been completed, and this merger is effective as of September 5, 2025. The result is that Born-Digital will operate as an American subsidiary of Discovery Garden. We will continue to offer both Enterprise and Cloud solutions. With regards to the Islandora Foundation, our joint intent is to continue with all of the commitments both companies have recently made to implement Islandora’s Strategic Plan in the coming year.
Our staff will be working to integrate our technical and services functions over coming weeks and months. Our clients have already been informed of this news, and we wanted to let the larger community know about this exciting next step. We will be sending out a public press release next week and updating our websites to reflect the organizational changes. We are also coordinating with Aubrey to find a time for community discussion, perhaps as part of an upcoming open meeting.
This merger unites decades of collective service and expertise, positioning us to better support and sustain the Islandora community and the Foundation as we move forward together.
Looking forward to continuing to collaborate with you all,
Noah Smith
CTO Discovery Garden + Born-Digital
Gerry Lawless
CEO Discovery Garden + Born-Digital
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Oct 3, 2025, 3:37:58 PM (10 days ago) Oct 3
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Hi everyone,
We had a discussion around the merge of Discovery Garden and Born Digital at the Leadership Group this past week, and it seemed there wasn't a need for a special topic on this. If anyone has questions or comments, please feel free to reach out to me directly, or to Noah or Gerry.
I hope you'll join me in wishing the team success in their new venture! I'll be looking forward to continuing the partnership between the Islandora Foundation and Discovery Garden + Born Digital.
Have a great weekend!
Aubrey Shanahan
Community Manager | Islandora Foundation
We had a discussion around the merge of Discovery Garden and Born Digital at the Leadership Group this past week, and it seemed there wasn't a need for a special topic on this. If anyone has questions or comments, please feel free to reach out to me directly, or to Noah or Gerry.
I hope you'll join me in wishing the team success in their new venture! I'll be looking forward to continuing the partnership between the Islandora Foundation and Discovery Garden + Born Digital.
Have a great weekend!
Aubrey Shanahan
Community Manager | Islandora Foundation
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