Greetings Colleagues, I trust you’re well. Exciting news to share with you! As you know, the HBCU Library Alliance is a collaborative member of MetaArchive. The twenty-three members of the HBCU/Cornell Digital Initiative currently participate in the collaborative that aims to ensure affordable, reliable preservation of digital collections. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has selected MetaArchive’s Preservation & Curation of ETD Research Data & Complex Digital Objects project for their National Leadership Grant funding. Joe Swanson, Morehouse College (GA), will represent the Alliance in this initiative. An excerpt from the attached proposal narrative is detailed below. “The Educopia Institute, in partnership with University of North Texas, and in concert with the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), HBCU Alliance, bepress, ProQuest, and the libraries of Virginia Tech, University of Tennessee, Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, Oregon State, Penn State, Morehouse, University of Louisville, and Indiana State propose a two-year project to improve ETD policies and practices around research data and complex digital object management nationally. The project will answer the question: How will institutions ensure the longevity and availability of ETD research data and complex digital objects (e.g., software, multimedia files) that comprise an integral component of student theses and dissertations? “ Follow this link http://www.imls.gov/news/2014_ols_nlg_and_sparks_annoucement.aspx#MI for a complete listing of awards. Stay tuned for more information! Respectfully, Sandra SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/2014meeting-form.html for the October 26-28, 2014 HBCU Library Alliance 6th Membership Meeting in Atlanta GA!