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SPARC and SPARC Europe welcome your participation in the upcoming workshop, "Institutional Repositories: The Next Stage," to be held November 18-19, 2004 in Washington, DC. Attendees of this two-day workshop, open to the international community, will gain a practical, hands-on understanding of strategies critical to the success of their Institutional Repository. Attendees will hear from experienced leaders in the IR field as well as those involved in related innovative and important projects. The workshop will benefit those with fully functioning IRs as well as those in the early stages of considering such an initiative. There will be a special focus on tactics for working with faculty and researchers to make IRs a success. This workshop will be platform-independent and will focus primarily on non-technical issues relating to the successful implementation of IRs. The audience may include university provosts and administrators, library directors and managers, Institutional Repository coordinators, and others. Please consider submitting a paper or poster to this workshop, and sharing with others the experience you have gained building your Institutional Repository. The call for papers and posters is online at: <http://db.arl.org/ir2004/>. (Deadline: August 16, 2004.) An online registration form will be posted on the SPARC web site <http://www.arl.org/sparc> later this month. Vendors and potential sponsors: If your company would like to become a sponsor of this workshop, or exhibit your product or service, please contact Alison Buckholtz [log in to unmask] A limited number of vendor spots are available. For other information about this workshop, please contact Alison Buckholtz <[log in to unmask]>. We look forward to seeing you in November.