Greetings, Linked below are several items of interest to those who have been following along with the Statewide & Regional Stepping Stones to the National Digital Platform Project, https://www.gvsu.edu/library/stepping-stones-68.htm. You are receiving this email on one or more of your professional association listservs. We’ll continue to have updates going out on this channel(s) for the remainder of the project (through November), but if you have not already we are now encouraging project followers to please subscribe to the new project listserv at http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/mi-digital-preservation. A recording from our August Virtual Community Planning Meeting is now available. If you couldn’t make the call feel free to catch-up/ keep-up with all the great work. https://zoom.us/recording/play/6b0E7wJc9bQFMECamWzXGHXEmce9kLtw5tm21KHFmOdzm... Please take a moment also to read our Project White Paper on Community Governance, and then fill out our brief Community Governance Survey. https://gvsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ewBzWvj5gcs9t7T We need your feedback on the type of governance structure you would like to see available for your institution as we lay the foundation for the launch of a state digital preservation network/community in 2020. White paper - https://www.gvsu.edu/cms4/asset/0862059E-9024-5893-1B5AAAC2F83BDDD8/stepping... Stay tuned for more details this coming week on the upcoming project workshop scheduled for the Michigan Museums Association Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, MI (October 2nd-5th). As always, if you have any questions in between now and out next Virtual Community Planning Call on September 30th, from 11am-12pm ET, don’t hesitate to follow-up with me (Matt Schultz, schultzm@gvsu.edu<mailto:schultzm@gvsu.edu>). All best, -- Matt Schultz Curation and Digital Preservation Librarian Grand Valley State University Libraries schultzm@gvsu.edu<mailto:schultzm@gvsu.edu> 616-331-5072