US RAiD Pilot Update: Initial Use Cases

US RAiD Pilot Update: Initial Use Cases

September 10, 2025US RAiD Pilot

After the initial US stakeholders meeting for RAiD (Research Activity Identifier) in May 2025, the US RAiD Pilot has continued to move forward with collecting several potential RAiD use cases that reflect the various goals and needs of stakeholders across the research and scholarly communication ecosystem. An overview of the 13 use cases gathered so … Read More

Lyrasis Shares Succession Planning and Preservation Strategies at the CENCOR Symposium in Puerto Rico

Lyrasis Shares Succession Planning and Preservation Strategies at the CENCOR Symposium in Puerto Rico

August 25, 2025Conferences & Events, Preservation

Lyrasis’ Tom Clareson and Laura Sinhur recently attended the Primer Simposio sobre Preservación de Colecciones Documentales in Puerto Rico, held on May 2 and 3. The symposium was the culmination of a two-year partnership between the Center for Conservation and Restoration of Puerto Rico (CENCOR) and the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), … Read More

Lyrasis is Strengthening the Foundations of the Organizational Home

Lyrasis is Strengthening the Foundations of the Organizational Home

August 1, 2025Communities, Organizational Home

Lyrasis has been proud to serve as an Organizational Home for community supported, open-source technologies for more than 10 years. With this rich and extensive experience comes the opportunity for reflection and improvement.   In 2024, we developed a coordinated and deliberate approach to strengthen and grow the Organizational Home service, enhance its impact and foster … Read More

ORCID US Community Newsletter – June 2025

ORCID US Community Newsletter – June 2025

June 30, 2025ORCID US

It’s been six years, and the ORCID US Community is still steadily growing, with plenty of exciting updates and important information from across the community below. Past newsletters can be found in the ORCID US Community Blog. To contribute to future newsletters, please email orcidus@lyrasis.org. Thank you! Community Snapshot  Member institutions = 203 (as of … Read More

Library-driven App Changes Ownership, Expanding Access to Ebooks

Library-driven App Changes Ownership, Expanding Access to Ebooks

June 24, 2025Ebooks

The Palace Project, an audio and ebook app for libraries, moves to nonprofit Lyrasis. JUNE 24, 2025 —  The Palace Project — a mobile app and digital platform that provides ebooks and audiobooks to more than 700 libraries  — is changing ownership. Co-created by the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Lyrasis in 2020, … Read More

Lyrasis Announces the 2025 Catalyst Fund Recipients and Their Projects

Lyrasis Announces the 2025 Catalyst Fund Recipients and Their Projects

June 23, 2025Innovation and Learning, Membership

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 2025 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

Lyrasis DataCite US Community Newsletter – June 2025

Lyrasis DataCite US Community Newsletter – June 2025

June 17, 2025DataCite 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 … Read More

Ad Astra Per Aspera: During Difficult Times, Together, We Rise

Ad Astra Per Aspera: During Difficult Times, Together, We Rise

June 16, 2025Membership

Why Lyrasis Membership Matters At Lyrasis, we believe in the boundless power of knowledge and the strength of a shared journey. Ad astra — to the stars — is more than a Latin phrase or a Star Trek reference. It is our commitment. In every challenge, every moment of uncertainty, and every shifting landscape, we … Read More

US RAiD Pilot: Initial Stakeholders Set the Stage

US RAiD Pilot: Initial Stakeholders Set the Stage

June 4, 2025US RAiD Pilot

On May 14, 2025, organizers from Lyrasis, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego), GO FAIR US, and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), hosted the first call for initial stakeholders interested in participating in the US RAiD Pilot, funded by a grant from the National … Read More

Lyrasis Learning May Instructor Spotlight: S. Michele Echols

Lyrasis Learning May Instructor Spotlight: S. Michele Echols

April 30, 2025Classes

Our May Instructor Spotlight is S. Michele Echols. Michele will be teaching the webinar, Charting Your Career Path: Building a Personalized Professional Development Plan, on Tuesday, May 20, from 2 – 3:30 p.m.   S. Michele Echols, MLS, MS, is a thought-leader librarian with experience working in public, academic and school libraries. Echols owns the … Read More