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January 2024 @ TDL

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January 17 @ 10:30 am | TDL Member Forum
Texas Digital Library invites members to attend the TDL Forum,

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Texas Data Repository featured in OCLC research data report

Cover for Building Research Data Management Capacity: Case Studies in Strategic Library Collaboration

TDL is proud to have been part of the recent OCLC publication, Building Research Data Management Capacity: Case Studies in Strategic Library Collaboration. The report shares valuable tips to help make research data collaborations more successful and sustainable.

Thanks to our fabulous Texas Data Repository members for participating in the case study interviews.

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Meet the TCDL 2024 Planning Committee

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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Meet Christopher, TDL’s New Vireo Product Manager Consultant

Christopher Starcher (he/him) joined TDL in October 2023 as the Vireo Product Manager, a consulting role. Christopher is Associate Librarian, Digital Resources, faculty at Texas Tech University. In his 2-year term, he will assist with coordination and growth of the Vireo Open Source Community (OSS) and software development.

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San Antonio Archives Bazaar

TDL is proud to have sponsored the first ever San Antonio Archives Bazaar on October 7th, 2023 at the Brick event space in the Blue Star Arts Complex. An archives bazaar is an opportunity for area archival repositories and community archives to showcase collections and their collecting focus.

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Webinar: Horizons of Open Education in Texas

Join the Open Texas conference organizers on November 15 for a webinar exploring the Horizons of Open Education in Texas.

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Meet Ke’ara, TDL’s New Outreach & Member Engagement Coordinator

Ke’ara Hunt (she/her) joined TDL in September 2023 as the Outreach and Member Engagement Coordinator.

Where did you go to school?

I received a BS in Radio-Television-Film and BA in English at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Check out the Summer DPLA Harvest

Records from TDL’s Summer 2023 DPLA Harvest are now available via TXHUB and the Digital Public Library of America site. This harvest includes collections from a new Texas Digital Library’s DPLA metadata aggregation service user: Texas Woman’s University!

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Born-digital Preservation Workshop Rundown

Maintenance Culture (MC) is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded program created by Myriad, a non-profit consulting organization that seeks to help smaller cultural heritage institutions preserve their collections. The focus of MC is on building a community of practice around the preservation of creative complex, born-digital objects. With several in-person skillshare and workshop events planned in major cities across the United States, MC seeks to assist creators and cultural heritage professionals (such as archivists and curators) to build off existing digital preservation knowledge and apply them to a variety of time-based media objects.

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The Future of Digital Preservation – BPE 2023 Plenary Talk

Courtney Mumma, TDL Deputy Director, was invited to deliver the plenary talk at Best Practices Exchange 2023 in Athens, GA, at the University of Georgia’s Special Collections Libraries. The following is the full text of that presentation with the couple of slides that included images (most just served as placeholders).

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