TDLThe Texas Digital Library is happy to welcome Nicholas Woodward to our team as a Software Engineer. Nicholas comes to the TDL with experience at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, the University of Texas (UT) Austin Libraries, and the Library of Congress. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
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TDLThe Texas Digital Library (TDL) will launch a new data repository service in Fall 2016 for the benefit of faculty, students, and staff and its member institutions. The data repository is an implementation of Dataverse, an open source data repository platform developed at and used by Harvard University. The Dataverse software platform allows researchers to publish,
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TDLThe Texas Digital Library is pleased to sponsor the formation of a Texas Archivematica Users Group for those institutions exploring or actively using Archivematica, an open source suite of tools for processing digital objects for long-term preservation.
Drew Krewer, Digitization Services Coordinator at the University of Houston Libraries,
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TDLWe are delighted to announce the three winners of the TDL Member travel scholarships for the upcoming POWRR workshops!
The Texas Digital Library and the ACRL Digital Curation Interest Group are co-sponsoring the two POWRR workshops, to be held at Trinity University in San Antonio,
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TDLThe first symposium of the Southern Central States Fedora Users Group will take place July 18th and 19th in Norman, Oklahoma on the University of Oklahoma campus.
The Southern Central States Fedora Users Group welcomes anyone in the region both currently using Fedora and considering use of Fedora for management of digital assets as a repository or archive.
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TDLThe University of Houston (UH) celebrated the accomplishments of tenured and promoted faculty and librarians at a reception held this spring. The UH Tenure and Promotion Recognition Program was created to honor faculty and librarians who have recently achieved tenure or have been promoted. In the program’s inaugural year, 2015 honorees were invited to select a book that has offered inspiration or encouragement in their professional journey.
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TDLTDL Members receive a discounted registration rate for the 2016 Internet Librarian Conference. The TDL Member discount is for the Full 3-Day Conference Registration.
To receive the TDL Member discount, use the link below or enter the TDL Member discount code to complete online registration by September 16,
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TDLThe DSpace Education Working Group has put together a survey to gauge what kind of DSpace training needs there are among TDL’s members. It’s a rather short survey, and we’d love to have your input while we figure out what to share and how to go about sharing it!
Please take a few minutes to fill out the DSpace Training Needs Survey,
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TDLJoin us for an upcoming webinar, “Launching DPN’s Texas Preservation Node: Digital Preservation for the Texas Academy.” Leadership from the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) will join the Texas Digital Library staff to discuss the launch of the Texas Preservation Node, an ingestion point to the Digital Preservation Network.
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TDLThe Texas Digital Library and the ACRL Digital Curation Interest Group are co-sponsoring two POWRR workshops, to be held at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas Thursday July 7 and Friday July 8. Registration is free, but space is limited.
Several travel scholarships of up to $500 are available for TDL Members to defray the costs of travel and accommodation.
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