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Grow Your Career
TDL will offer lots of professional development in the coming year.
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Yearly Archives: 2019
OTN Summer Institute 2020
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Apply to become an OER Ambassador and attend OTNSI 2020
The members-only OTN Summer Institutes are opportunities for open education leaders to collaboratively develop open education strategies and build a community of practice. The OTNSI is a chance for TDL members to learn,
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TDL Imaging Group
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Members of Texas Digital Library have launched a new group open to all non-commercial parties who would like to learn, contribute, or discuss regional digital imaging and digitization best practices.
Click here to visit the Imaging Group wiki.
The catalyst for the group was a birds-of-a-feather meeting at TCDL 2019.
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Meet the TCDL 2020 Planning Committee
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The goal of the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries is to bring together those working on digital projects in order to build a practical, usable, and sustainable model for digital libraries.
Our planning committee defines the conference each year by developing a theme,
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State of TDL 2019
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TDLThe following report was delivered to the Member Board of Texas Digital Library on September 9, 2019. TDL’s Member Board meets annually, and is comprised of Deans, Directors, and proxies representing each of our member institutions. This report includes updates regarding our Governing Board, TDL’s finances, and our goals and objectives for projects and services in the coming year.
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Bepress to DSpace Migration: A Case Study
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By Nicholas Woodward, Sr. Software Engineer, Texas Digital Library
I’ll start with a little backstory.
Texas Digital Library was formed in 2005 among four ARL libraries in Texas in order to pool resources to build capacity for preserving,
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Archivematica Campfire Stories, hosted by TDL and A-Tex
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Last November, participants from TDL member institutions and beyond took part in Archivematica Camp Houston, learning to use Archivematica as a part of their digital preservation programs. Join us for updates from several Texas institutions on how they’re now using Archivematica in the year following AM Camp.
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OTN Regional Workshops
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The OTN’s train-the-trainer workshops increase participants’ familiarity with issues around open textbook adoption, strengthen presentation capacity for future open textbook workshops, and enhance open textbook program development.
Texas Digital Library will host train-the-trainer workshops to prepare members to implement OTN’s OER faculty incentive programs on their campuses.
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Webnar: Lifelong Learning & Linked Data
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TDLWe are thrilled to announce a new webinar from Itza Carbajal, Latin American Metadata Librarian with LLILAS Benson Library at UT Austin.
Itza’s presentation will provide an overview on how to start a staff-friendly learning environment for institutions looking to investigate or implement Linked Data technologies.
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OJS 3 Upgrades for TDL-Hosted Journals
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TDLTexas Digital Library, over the next several months, will begin the process of upgrading its hosted academic journals to OJS 3.1.2.4.
About the Upgrades
OJS version 3 represents a major leap forward for the Open Journal Systems platform,
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