Lyrasis Welcomes New Members and Clients

Lyrasis Welcomes New Members and Clients

November 18, 2024Lyrasis, Membership

Lyrasis welcomes our new members and clients! Lyrasis members and clients can join at any time during the year. These members became a part of the Lyrasis community in July 2025- June 2026. Welcome new Lyrasis members Birmingham Museum of Art John Carroll University Georgia State University University of Dallas Lackawanna Historical Society Gordon State … Read More

Lyrasis at the Charleston Conference

Lyrasis at the Charleston Conference

October 17, 2024Conferences & Events, Lyrasis

We look forward to seeing you at the Charleston Conference. Over the past year, Lyrasis has been highlighting the concept of openness — not just the open source and open access tools we work to provide you — but an overall sense of inclusion and acceptance. Lyrasis works with our members and partners to bring … Read More

Lyrasis Joins C4DISC, Advancing Equitable and Inclusive Scholarship

Lyrasis Joins C4DISC, Advancing Equitable and Inclusive Scholarship

August 22, 2024Content & Scholarly Communications, Leadership, Membership

Lyrasis is proud to join the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) as a member organization. Lyrasis also joins 150+ organizations worldwide, including several of our institutional members, in endorsing the C4DISC Joint Statement of Principles. C4DISC is a group of membership organizations representing libraries, publishers and other stakeholders working in scholarly … Read More

Lyrasis Becomes an ORCID Member to Support Open Research Best Practices

Lyrasis Becomes an ORCID Member to Support Open Research Best Practices

August 1, 2024Lyrasis, ORCID US

As of August 1, 2024, Lyrasis is an institutional member of ORCID, via the ORCID US Community consortium, with plans to officially recognize contributions from individual community members by writing professional activities to ORCID records using the ORCID Affiliation Manager. ORCID is a nonprofit organization that operates globally to help researchers and contributors get credit … Read More

Otterbein University’s Courtright Memorial Library and Lyrasis: A Case Study in Collaboration and Preservation

Otterbein University’s Courtright Memorial Library and Lyrasis: A Case Study in Collaboration and Preservation

July 23, 2024Innovation and Learning, Preservation

Discovery and Plotting the Plan We recently met with Otterbein University and two of their library staff, Tiffany Lipstreu, Library Director, and Stephen Grinch, Archivist, to discuss their work with Lyrasis Consulting in their ongoing renovation project for their archives and special collections. The current location of the Courtright Memorial Library was opened in 1972, … Read More

ORCID US Community Newsletter – June 2024

ORCID US Community Newsletter – June 2024

July 22, 2024Lyrasis, ORCID 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 … Read More

Unboxing Access to Archives: Lyrasis Services for Archivists

Unboxing Access to Archives: Lyrasis Services for Archivists

July 17, 2024Lyrasis, Membership, Preservation, Products & Partnerships

As a community-focused and member-driven organization, Lyrasis is here to support you. Over the past decade that has meant being deeply committed to open access, open knowledge and open technologies as foundational tools for the success of archives, libraries, museums and research institutions. This commitment has only grown over the years. We invest in vital … Read More

The Palace Project IMLS Grant Report Part 3:  Continued Developments and Partner Success

The Palace Project IMLS Grant Report Part 3: Continued Developments and Partner Success

June 26, 2024Ebooks, Products & Partnerships

In 2020, Lyrasis received an IMLS grant to develop and pilot an ebook and audiobook service for state and public libraries. The Palace Project deploys a cloud-based, remotely supported digital library reading platform for collection management and provides a curated set of ebooks and audiobooks through the Palace app and Virtual Library Card that allows … Read More