The Texas Digital Library will offer training courses on DSpace, Vireo, and other services during the Summer 2010 semester.
The Texas Digital Library will offer training courses on DSpace, Vireo, and other services during the Summer 2010 semester.
TDL-hosted electronic journal The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR) was featured yesterday on Ars Technica, a technology news and information website, in a feature on growing academic interest in the sociology of virtual communities.
The inaugural meeting of the Vireo Users Group will take place on the UT Austin campus on Wednesday, May 19, 2010, one day following the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries.
The TDL Wiki is a great resource for finding information on TDL services and projects, including user documentation, suggested reading, and updates on development projects.
Check out the latest issue of TDL Update, the newsletter of the Texas Digital Library, to discover the latest news and learn how TDL is working with its members to advance scholarly communication.
For those interested in issues of preservation, the DuraSpace Preservation and Archive Solution Community is offering a new resource, in the form of a blog, that is intended to foster the “open exchange of ideas and initiatives around preservation & archiving solutions.”
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Be sure to read our newest “Member Story,” discussing the work of Michele Reilly and team to create the University of Houston Digital Library.
In the most recent EDUCAUSE Review, Richard N. Katz contemplates the transformation of the scholarly enterprise as disruptive technologies begin to cause colleges and universities to question the established order of things.
From his article, “Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Digital Age”:
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