Texas Digital Library (TDL) and the TCDL Planning Committee invite proposals for the 2025 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (May 20-22, 2025), which will be held in-person at the Commons Conference Center in Austin, TX.
This call is for our pre-conference workshop sessions on May 20, 2025.
Proposals for Workshops / Demonstrations receive priority review. You will be notified on a rolling basis ahead of the deadline. Accepted presenters will be offered free workshop registration. More information about registration can be found here.
Format – Workshops / Demonstrations
In-depth instruction on important areas of digital library practice or demonstrations/tutorials of useful tools and technologies.
- Duration: Events in this category can range from 1 to 4 hours
- Format: In-person Workshops and Demonstrations
- Session length: Workshops are a single, stand-alone session.
- Proposals should include: Objectives/outcomes for the session, Target audience, Tech requirements, Prerequisite knowledge or experience, Time expectation
- To take place on Day 1 of the conference.
Theme – How Far We’ve Come: Celebrating the Community
Over the past 20 years, Texas Digital Library has come a long way and has much to celebrate. We have cultivated a vibrant community of creative and collaborative information workers who are committed to supporting accessible and inclusive scholarly, cultural heritage, and educational materials that represent our diverse populations. This year, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of TDL and how our collective action has blossomed into cumulative impact across the state of Texas.
Join us at the 2025 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries to reflect on how far we’ve come as a community, review current roadmaps, and discuss our plans for the future. We invite you to consider how collaboration and engagement – both within and beyond the TDL community – can highlight our shared success. Let’s celebrate our achievements, interrogate shortcomings and surprises, and highlight what we’ve learned on the way.
Topic Ideas
Topics of interest to people working in digital libraries are welcome at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Our conference is open to all who work in, use, and promote digital scholarship and digital collections. Use the following list of topic ideas to inspire your TCDL proposal.
- Creative approaches to digital librarianship, preservation, and archives
- Supporting campus or consortial initiatives using institutional repositories or other digital library systems
- Cross-institutional partnerships: successes, challenges, and next steps
- Sustaining impact through engaging multiple stakeholders or communities
- Asset-based digital growth: drawing upon existing community strengths to build stronger, more sustainable communities for the future
- Cultivating partnerships in the library, campus community, and wider community to leverage shared expertise
- Documenting success, showcasing research, and inspiring new conversations to build enthusiasm about what comes next
- Improving accessibility in digital libraries and archives
- Promoting and supporting Open Access, Open Education, or other Open initiatives
- Projects and workflows for digitization, digital archives and preservation
- Equitable labor and leadership practices that cultivate professional growth
- Spotlighting impact that enriches the evolving community of digital librarianship, preservation, and archives
- Innovative promotion and outreach for digital collections or open publishing initiatives
- Developing professional skills and fostering career growth with a consideration toward self-care and meaningful work
- Investigations in shortcomings and surprises, and/or lessons learned from failures, challenges, and successes
Ready to Submit Your Proposal?
Here is the information you will need to submit your proposal:
- Submitter name and contact information
- Co-author and co-presenter contact information, if applicable
- Proposal title
- Presentation type
- Abstract (250 words or less)
- Keywords / themes: Please list up to five keywords that describe your presentation.
- Agree to publishing presentation materials with Texas Digital Library.
- Agree to TCDL’s Code of Conduct.
- Select a choice to join TDL’s email list.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORM (Select the Workshops / Demonstrations option)
THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS IS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2025 at 11:59 P.M. CT
Questions? Email us info@tdl.org.
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.
ABOUT TEXAS DIGITAL LIBRARY
Texas Digital Library is a library consortium that provides services to its member institutions that enable free and open access to scholarship, cultural heritage materials, and educational resources. These services are built in a shared, open infrastructure and sustained by a collaborative community of library and archives workers. Learn more about TDL membership by visiting https://main.tdl.org/members/membership/ or email us at info@tdl.org.