| The TCDL Planning Committee and Texas Digital Library announced in March 2020 their decision to cancel TCDL 2020 and associated in-person events due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All registrants were issued a full refund. In lieu of the in-person conference, a modified set of online events was held in summer 2020: TCDL 2020 Online Events Information below and on all other TCDL 2020 pages are intended as a record of planned events only. |
2020 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Commons Learning Center, Austin, Texas
10100 Burnet Road
Austin, TX 78758
Dates: May 18-21, 2020
Theme: Hindsight 2020: Looking Back, Moving Forward
As Texas Digital Library embarks on a new decade, TCDL’s theme this year, Hindsight 2020: Looking Back, Moving Forward, presents an opportunity to pause and reflect on lessons learned from past projects and initiatives, and envision fresh possibilities for the future. Proposals might detail projects that didn’t go as planned (for better or worse), address particular aspects of project management, or point us in new directions for digital collections and infrastructure. We encourage presenters to consider sharing past successes as well as failures that led to unexpected solutions or advice that might benefit the community.
Keynote Speakers: Lauren Cooper and Curtis Small
Lauren Cooper
Lauren Cooper is the digital scholarship librarian and project manager for the Colored Conventions Project (CCP) at the University of Delaware, a leadership role to facilitate the work of this nationally-recognized digital humanities project led by students, faculty, and librarians. CCP collaborates with partners to make accessible the documents, records, and biographies of 19th-century Black organizers.
For more than 20 years, her professional experience has been in the education and publishing fields at social change organizations who work to amplify underrepresented, buried, and excluded voices. Through this work, and recently as the founding coordinator of the Howard Zinn Education Project from 2009-2018, she experienced how the digital age has transformed the way we record, publish, share, access, and teach historical events and narratives, and the powerful potential to deepen understanding and engagement with U.S. history.
Cooper holds an MLIS degree from the University of Maryland-College Park with a specialization in curation and digital archives, and a BA degree in Visual Sociology: Film and Societal Issues from the University of Redlands.
Curtis Small
Curtis Small is Coordinator of Public Services for Special Collections at University of Delaware, where he coordinates the reference, instruction and exhibition programs. He is also a project member of the Colored Conventions Project, a Digital Humanities project that documents the largest African American political movement of the nineteenth century.
Curtis’ research interests include the history of the African-American book, the history of the Colored Conventions Movement, and Caribbean francophone literature. He recently served as co-chair of the Diversity Committee of RBMS, the Rare Book and Manuscript Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
In this capacity, he has helped develop activities and projects aimed at increasing the diversity among professionals in the areas of Special Collections and Archives. He holds a Ph.D. in French from New York University and an MLIS from Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Opening Keynote Session on May 19, 2020
In 2020, the Colored Conventions Project (CCP) celebrates its eighth year as a Black digital humanities project at the University of Delaware. CCP has been recognized by the NEH as one of its 50 essential digital projects, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and featured by the National Archives as an outstanding example of collaboration, community engagement and scholarship. We follow in the footsteps of giants. Beginning in 1830 and continuing for most of the nineteenth century, Colored Conventions was the most important Black American social movement, in which tens of thousands of delegates came together around the country to take action for social and political rights. However, this history has been obscured. In our talk, we will explore the origins of the Conventions movement and the scattered archive it left behind. In 2012, faculty director Gabrielle Foreman and then graduate student co-founders Jim Casey and Sarah Patterson conceived of CCP as a means of bringing much-deserved attention to the Conventions movement. CCP brings nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life by assembling convention documents, creating interdisciplinary exhibits, hosting symposia, developing classroom curricula and much more. In all of our work, we are guided by principles such as an imperative to highlight the role of Black women in the Conventions movement and to curate Black data toward liberatory ends. Our presentation will reflect on lessons learned as we move forward. In December 2019, we launched two new digital platforms and we are currently editing an interdisciplinary, scholarly volume. In addition, CCP will soon move to Pennsylvania State University to launch the Center for Black Digital Research, where team members will work on projects including the Black Women’s Organizing Archive and Douglass Day.
Conference Proceedings
The 2020 TCDL Conference Proceedings are available in the Texas Digital Library (TDL) repository.
TCDL 2020 Announcements
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TCDL 2020 Planning Committee
Chair: Marcia McIntosh, University of North Texas
Vice-Chair: Shelley Barba, Texas Tech University
Jon Crossno, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Taylor Davis-Van Atta, University of Houston
Lea DeForest, Texas Digital Library
Taylor Fairweather-Leitch, West Texas A&M University
Linsey Ford, University of Houston – Clear Lake
Ramona Holmes, University of North Texas Health Science Center
Jerrell Jones, University of Houston
Mark Phillips, University of North Texas
Alex Suarez, Texas Digital Library
Rachel Winston, University of Texas at Austin
Amanda Zerangue, Texas Woman’s 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.