The TDL announces that Director Mark McFarland will leave his position pending the recruitment and appointment of a new Director.
The TDL announces that Director Mark McFarland will leave his position pending the recruitment and appointment of a new Director.
The Texas Digital Library has upgraded all its hosted WordPress sites and blogs to WordPress 3.5, which provides several new features for users.
The TDL is pleased to announce that Michele Kimpton, CEO of DuraSpace, and Nancy McGovern, Head of Curation and Preservation Services at MIT, will serve as the keynote speakers for the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries.
The TCDL 2013 planning committee invites proposals for participation at TCDL 2013, will be held in Austin on May 7th and 8th.
The TDL will offer two half-day Copyright Seminars led by recognized experts on copyright from within the TDL membership: Georgia Harper, Scholarly Communications Advisor at UT Libraries and Gail Clement, Head of Digital Services and Scholarly Communication at Texas A&M University Libraries.
Since 2007, the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries has covered topics relevant to the creation, promotion, and preservation of scholarly communication at Texas institutions of higher learning
Library directors of TDL member institutions gathered in Austin on September 10 to discuss TDL business and install the Governing Board for the 2012-2013 academic year.
The Vireo Development Team concluded active development of Vireo 1.8, a new version the Vireo Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Management System, and began deployment and testing of staging instances of the software for TDL members.
As part of its on-going efforts to improve users’ experiences with TDL services, the Texas Digital Library has launched Zendesk customer service software for managing technical support requests that come in through the TDL Helpdesk.
Development efforts for Vireo 1.8 are continuing this summer, with completion of the new code scheduled for fall 2012 and implementation thereafter.