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Texas Digital Library Awarded Library Cooperation Grant

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The Texas Digital Library, through its home institution the University of Texas at Austin Libraries, is excited to be the recipient of a 2016 Library Cooperation Grant from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission for the project “Development of a Statewide Aggregation Service for Texas Digital Collections.”

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Save the Date! TDL Data Symposium

SAVE THE DATE! The Texas Digital Library will hold its first ever TDL Data Symposium, hosted by Baylor University Libraries on November 15th and 16th, 2016 in Waco, Texas.

This two-day event is designed to support the development of a core community of TDL member librarians who support research data services on their campuses.

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TDL Welcomes Nicholas Woodward

The 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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Name the TDL Data Repository Contest!

The 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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Announcing Texas Archivematica Users Group

The 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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Congratulations TDL Member POWRR Workshop Travel Scholarship Award Recipients!

We 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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Registration open for the first South Central States Fedora Users Group Meeting: July 18-19

The 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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Discounted Registration for 2016 Internet Librarian Conference

TDL 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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Two Upcoming POWRR Workshops: July 7th and 8th

The 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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Take the 2016 TDL Spring Survey!

The Texas Digital Library (TDL) is a consortium of higher education institutions that builds capacity within the state of Texas for preserving, managing, and providing access to unique digital collections of enduring value.

Help us improve how the TDL can best serve you and your institution by taking the 2016 TDL Spring Survey.

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