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Dear colleagues, Educopia Institute, partnering with six members of the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative (APTrust, CLOCKSS, Chronopolis, Lyrasis, MetaArchive, Texas Digital Library), is leading an IMLS-funded planning project <https://educopia.org/announcing-dpsc-project/> [LG-252340-OLS-22] around values-driven, community-supported distributed digital preservation service options. We seek a Consultant or consultancy agency to support our team in proposing a service model for collaboration that ensures the authority, sustainability, and viability of these options. The DPSC Planning project is focusing on exploratory activities that will study the needs for and feasibility of a collaborative community-supported digital preservation service. The project seeks a Consultant who can bring an understanding of the current digital preservation landscape, including a variety of needs across the cultural heritage spectrum (public libraries, academic libraries, archives, special collections, etc). Combined with the input of the stakeholders, the Consultant should be able bring this knowledge to bear in the proposal of a broader and more sustainable collaborative and multi-tiered service model for distributed digital preservation. Review will begin September 19, 2022. Read more about the project and the proposal process: https://educopia.org/dpsc-project-consultant/ -- Hannah Wang | she/her/hers Community Facilitator, MetaArchive Cooperative Educopia Institute