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Supporting values-based acquisitions at Lyrasis: Highlighting Lived Places Publishing and punctum books

August 4, 2026Products & Partnerships

Libraries base acquisitions decisions on values to reclaim and recalibrate the scholarly publishing landscape. The Next Generation Library Publishing project, composed of the Educopia Institute, California Digital Library and Stratos, in close collaboration with COAR, Lyrasis and Longleaf Services, found that to uphold values and principles like representative governance, equity, diversity, inclusion, transparency and openness, … Read More

Lyrasis Consulting and the Archivpres listserv

July 23, 2026Communities, Conferences & Events

We look forward to connecting at ARCHIVES*RECORDS, the Society of American Archivists’ annual convention, from July 29 – August 2 in New Orleans. Stop by Lyrasis booth #507, get your passport stamped, talk to us about your digitization and consulting needs and share your archives destination! Laura will have limited edition stickers and will be … Read More

Meet DuraCloud Preserve, A Streamlined New Version of our Long-Term Preservation Software

July 23, 2026Hosting Services, Products & Partnerships

DuraCloud is an open-source digital preservation software originally developed by DuraSpace and maintained by Lyrasis since 2019. It originated in 2009 between the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and DuraSpace. The managed service had a public launch Nov 7, 2011. Adoption of DuraCloud has waxed and waned since its … Read More

From Migration to Mastery: How the University of Toledo Transformed its Digital Repository with Lyrasis DSpaceDirect Hosting

June 30, 2026Case Studies, DSpaceDirect, Hosting Services

When the University of Toledo (UT) earned Carnegie R1 classification in 2025, its institutional repository took on greater strategic importance for preserving, organizing and expanding access to the university’s scholarly and archival record. By using DSpace and Lyrasis DSpaceDirect Hosting, the UT Digital Repository cut administrative overhead, improved discovery through structured collections and enabled batch … Read More

“They Didn’t Even Know That Was Our Dream”: Tuskegee University’s Path to Preserving Black History

June 25, 2026Hosting Services, Lyrasis, Membership, Museums

Preserving 130 years of Black history, the Tuskegee University Archives and Legacy Museum (TUALM) manages a diverse treasury of artifacts. For years, the team struggled to manage these vast holdings through manual systems, which limited their ability to streamline workflows or provide public visibility. During a member panel at our recent Annual Summit, University Archivist … Read More

Lyrasis DataCite US Community Newsletter – June 2026

June 25, 2026DataCite US Community

Launched in January 2021, as a consortium for any non-profit in the US looking to get started with DataCite DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers), the Lyrasis DataCite US Community is dedicated to supporting open research infrastructure and best practices for making research and scholarly materials more FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. Community Snapshot Participating organizations … Read More

Exploring RAiD in Dataverse at the University of Texas at Austin

June 22, 2026US RAiD Pilot

This blog post was written by Sheila Rabun in collaboration with Michael Shensky and Bryan Gee at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries, based on presentations from the RAiD Global Community Meeting – Americas (May 20, 2026) and the Open Repositories virtual conference (June 10, 2026). As part of the US RAiD Pilot, research … Read More

Lyrasis Announces the 2026 Catalyst Fund Recipients and Their Projects

June 17, 2026Innovation and Learning, Lyrasis, News

Lyrasis, a nonprofit member organization serving the global landscape of academic and public libraries, scholarly research, archives, museums and galleries, is pleased to announce the 2026 recipients of the Lyrasis Catalyst Fund. The Lyrasis Catalyst Fund is an award program that provides support for new ideas and innovative projects from the Lyrasis membership. Through the … Read More

Connect with Lyrasis at the 2026 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago

June 10, 2026Conferences & Events

Libraries are portals, leading to knowledge, community and connection, broadening our worlds and widening our perspectives. Lyrasis understands that this work is too important to do alone, so your mission is our mission. At the 2026 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, we look forward to connecting with you and having conversations about: our library-aligned digital … Read More

Transforming Research Visibility with RAiD at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

April 30, 2026US RAiD Pilot

This blog post was written by Sheila Rabun in collaboration with Audrey Carson and Jason Wohlgemuth at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For large federally funded research facilities like the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, the ability to understand, connect and communicate about research activities is just as important as … Read More