In order to address TDL sustainability needs and more equitably share the cost of operating the TDL consortium, the TDL Governing Board earlier this year approved changes to the TDL Membership Structure and fee schedule.
Blog Archives
Check out the Summer DPLA Harvest
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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!
Born-digital Preservation Workshop Rundown
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TDLMaintenance 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.
August 2023 @ TDL
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All events are online, in Central Standard Time (CST), and require a Zoom account to register and attend. Click here to create a free Zoom account.
SPECIAL EVENTS
August 2 @ 3:00 pm | QGIS Webinar Series #2: Researching Your Community with QGIS
Join the GIS Interest Group for the summer 2023 QGIS webinar series.
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Meet the 2023 TDL Awards Recipients
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We at TDL are continually inspired by the amazing work going on within our member libraries and other organizations throughout Texas and the region – work that furthers TDL’s mission of ensuring long term, equitable access to digital content of value to research, instruction, cultural heritage, and institutional memory. The TDL Awards are an opportunity for to recognize the labor, creativity, and expertise of the library and archives workers in our community.
Reflecting on TCDL 2023
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After three years of virtual gatherings, the Texas Conferences on Digital Libraries convened again in-person May 16-18, 2023. The conference took place at the Commons Conference Center in Austin, with a theme of “Hi…How are you?”
The Future of Digital Preservation – BPE 2023 Plenary Talk
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TDLCourtney 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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Introducing texas.dp.la – a Digital Public Library of America TxHub site
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As many of you are aware, TxHub is the DPLA Service Hub of Texas, providing metadata for thousands of cultural heritage items to the Digital Public Library of America. DPLA makes those items, and millions of others across the country through the web portal and its open API.
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July 2023 @ TDL
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All events are online, in Central Standard Time (CST), and require a Zoom account to register and attend. Click here to create a free Zoom account.
SPECIAL EVENTS
July 7 @ 10:00 am | OER @ TDL | Planning Your Academic Year
In honor of all the color-coded calendar fanatics,
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June 2023 @ TDL
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All events are online, in Central Standard Time (CST), and require a Zoom account to register and attend. Click here to create a free Zoom account.
SPECIAL EVENTS
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RECURRING EVENTS
June 21 @ 10:30 am | TDL Member Forum
Texas Digital Library invites members to attend the TDL Forum,
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