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Member Story: Baylor Electronic Library’s Gospel Music Collection
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TDLThrough their digital collections, Texas Digital Library member Baylor University and its Baylor Electronic Library are preserving rare and fragile cultural materials, while at the same time making them more widely available to scholars, researchers, and the public.
TDL announces keynote speakers for TCDL 2010
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Dr. Leslie Carr and Dr. Reagan Moore will deliver the keynote addresses at the 2010 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. TCDL 2010 takes place May 17-18 in Austin, Texas.
February issue of TDL Update newsletter now available
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Check out the latest issue of TDL Update, the newsletter of the Texas Digital Library, to learn how the TDL and its members are working together to advance scholarly communications.
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Tags: newsletter, repositories, software development, TCDL, Texas Tech University, Texas Water Digital Library, training, user resources, Vireo
Tags: newsletter, repositories, software development, TCDL, Texas Tech University, Texas Water Digital Library, training, user resources, Vireo
February 23 training classes postponed due to inclement weather
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Because of a forecast for inclement weather in the Waco area, the Texas Digital Library will not hold training courses at Baylor University on February 23 as planned. An announcement regarding makeup sessions for the classes will be forthcoming.
TDL demos Vireo 1.0.1 and begins testing phase
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On Tuesday, February 16, The Texas Digital Library development team held a demonstration of the Vireo 1.0.1 release at TDL headquarters at UT Austin. Lab instances of the new version will be available for testing by TDL member institutions beginning February 17.
TDL members ranked among the world’s top institutional repositories
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The University of Texas at Austin Digital Repository has been ranked #50 in the Ranking Web of World Repositories’ list of the top 400 institutional repositories in the world.
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Tags: repositories, Texas A&M University, Texas State University, University of Texas at Austin
Tags: repositories, Texas A&M University, Texas State University, University of Texas at Austin
Open Journal Systems and Academic Freedom
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The Chronicle of Higher Education offers an article about John Willinsky, education professor at Stanford and leader of the Public Knowledge Project, the outfit behind Open Journal Systems (OJS) software. The Texas Digital Library hosts Open Journal Systems for members wishing to create and publish online, open-access scholarly journals.
Social networking and TCDL 2010: Crowdvine, Twitter, and more
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In the spirit of the TCDL 2010 theme — Collaboration — the TDL is offering several new opportunities for networking, discussion, and staying informed.
University of Illinois successfully tests Vireo system for managing ETDS
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The University of Illinois Graduate College is finding out how Vireo helps graduate schools manage the submission and administration of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).