2012 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center
1900 University Avenue
Austin, TX 78705
Dates: May 24 – 25, 2012
Theme: Connections: Connecting With Our Users through Digital Services
The future success of libraries depends not only on the ability to provide customers with access to the materials necessary for their research, but also on their ability to shape library constituents’ perception of the library as the destination for research — as both a point of creation and an archival destination for scholarly materials. As libraries take advantage of Internet technologies that promote access and collaboration, the connections that libraries make with individuals at their own organizations and with other research and archival institutions will be essential to ensuring their continued relevancy.
Recognizing the importance of collaboration, access, and relationship-building to the success of libraries, the primary theme for TCDL 2012 is “Connections: Connecting With Our Users through Digital Services.”
Keynote Speakers: James Hilton & John P. Wilkin
James Hilton
James Hilton is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Virginia where he is responsible for planning and coordinating academic and administrative information technology, voice communications, and network operations on a university-wide basis. He is an advocate of strong collaboration between academic and technology cultures in university environments. He is also a Professor in the Department of Psychology.
Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Hilton was the Associate Provost for Academic Information and Instructional Technology Affairs and a member of the faculty at the University of Michigan in the Institute for Social Research and in the Psychology Department where he served as the Chair of Undergraduate Studies between 1991 and 2000. He is a three-time recipient of the LS&A Excellence in Education award, has been named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor (1997-2006), and received the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award. He has published extensively in the areas of information technology policy, person perception, stereotypes, and the psychology of suspicion. Mr. Hilton received a B. A. in Psychology from the University of Texas in 1981 and a Ph.D. from the social psychology program at Princeton University in 1985.
Opening Keynote Session on May 24, 2012
“The Digital Preservation Network”
Hilton, in his address, spoke on the effort to create a national, federated preservation infrastructure through the Digital Preservation Network project, which he is leading. TDL has signed on to support the development of this infrastructure.
John P. Wilkin
John P. Wilkin is the Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology (LIT) and is the Executive Director of HathiTrust. The Library Information Technology (LIT) Division supports the Library’s online catalog and related technologies, provides the infrastructure to both digitize and access digital library collections, supports the Library’s web presence, and provides frameworks and systems to coordinate Library technology activities (e.g., authentication and authorization). Reporting units include Core Services, Digital Library Production Service, Library Systems, and Web Services.
Wilkin previously served as the Head of the Digital Library Production Service at the University of Michigan, a position he held from its inception in 1996. DLPS was originally conceived as a federated organization, drawing on resources from the University of Michigan’s major information and technology organizations, including the University of Michigan Library. Although this particular aspect of DLPS has changed, now with all of the department’s activities situated within the University Library, and nearly all of its funding on the Library’s base budget, DLPS continues to have strong campus and national relations. Among the units in the DLPS is the University of Michigan’s Humanities Text Initiative, an organization responsible for SGML document creation and online systems that Wilkin founded in 1994.
Wilkin earned graduate degrees in English from the University of Virginia (’80) and Library Science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (’86). In 1988 he assumed responsibility for the University of Michigan’s English and American language and literature collection development, as well as library research support for English faculty and graduate students. Soon after, he implemented a campus-wide service for the analysis of electronic text and encoding text in SGML. In 1992, he began work at the University of Virginia as the Systems Librarian for Information Services, where he shaped the Library’s plan for establishing a group of electronic centers, led and provided technical support for those centers, and consulted for the University’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) in textual issues
Closing Keynote Session on May 25, 2012
“Closing Remarks”
Wilkin closed the conference with a discussion on the successes of HathiTrust in facilitating large-scale digitization and access to millions of documents through its digital repository.
Conference Proceedings
The 2012 TCDL Conference Proceedings are available in the Texas Digital Library (TDL) repository.
TCDL 2012 Announcements
TCDL 2012 Planning Committee
Chair: Sarah Sutton, Texas A&M University
Vice-Chair: Amy Rushing, University of Texas at Austin
Jim Brewer, Texas Tech University
Jeanne Hazzard, Texas State University
Billie Peterson-Lugo, Baylor University
Leslie Reynolds, Texas A&M University
About the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Since 2007, the Texas Digital Library has hosted the annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). TCDL covers topics relevant to the creation, promotion, dissemination, and preservation of research, scholarship, and cultural heritage digital materials. The goal of TCDL is to bring together those working on digital projects — including outreach librarians, repository managers, catalogers, faculty members, technical staff, and others — in order to build a practical, usable, and sustainable model for digital libraries.
TCDL encourages and welcomes participation from students, scholars, librarians, researchers, faculty, and users from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. All are welcome!
Read TCDL’s Code of Conduct and Land Acknowledgement.