Texas Digital Library

OER Ambassadors Meeting
2021-03-02 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-04-06 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-05-04 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-06-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-09-07 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-10-05 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-11-02 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-12-21 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | online
Join TDL for our monthly OER Ambassadors Meeting! If you are interested in joining please visit our OER Ambassadors page here.
Texas Digital Library is expanding our services to include support for Open Educational Resources (OER). Driven by initiatives to increase the adoption of OER from across our consortium of academic libraries, TDL is responding to the needs of our members as well as the needs of Texas higher education students to meet their scholarly and financial challenges.

TDL Hangout
2021-03-10 13:00 - 13:45, 2021-03-24 13:00 - 13:45, 2021-04-14 13:00 - 13:45, 2021-04-28 13:00 - 13:45, 2021-05-12 13:00 - 13:45, 2021-05-26 13:00 - 13:45, 2021-06-09 13:00 - 13:45, 2021-06-23 13:00 - 13:45
Join Texas Digital Library staff and fellow TDL members for a bi-weekly hangout session. No agenda and no registration or RSVP required. Come as you are! Pets and family members are welcome to stop by.
Download recurring calendar invites for the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays.

Archivematica Texas (ATEX) Open Office Hour
2021-04-02 13:00 - 14:00
Join the Archivematica Texas Users Group (ATEX) Steering Committee to discuss digital preservation using Archivematica. All are welcome–newbies, curious and pro users! This will be an informal conversation hosted by the ATEX SC.
Please register here.

WATX Interest Group Meeting
2021-05-27 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-08-26 11:00 - 12:00
Join TDL and the Web Archiving Texas Interest Group for our quarterly meeting. The purpose of the group is to build a community around web archiving in Texas, bring people together to share skills and resources to accomplish shared goals, and amplify our work that impacts the national and international web archiving community. The Web Archiving Texas Interest Group has a listserv at tdl-watxig@utlists.utexas.edu and quarterly meetings. Anyone is welcome to join the group, whether they are working at a TDL member institution or not. To request to join the list and/or the meetings, please email support@tdl.org.
Download a recurring calendar invite here.

TCDL Social Hour
2021-05-27 17:00 - 18:00
Join Texas Digital Library and the 2021 TCDL Planning Committee for a post-conference social hour. All are welcome to attend regardless of TCDL registration. Stop by and say hello!
TCDL SOCIAL HOUR
Thursday, May 27, 2021
5PM – 6PM Central
Registration is required. Click here to register.
Once you’ve registered, you will receive a confirmation and personal link to join the Social Hour in Zoom.
Email Texas Digital Library at info@tdl.org with any questions or suggestions.
We hope to see you there!

OER Ambassadors Meeting
2021-07-06 15:00 - 16:30
Learn more about the OER Ambassadors here.

OER Ambassadors Meeting
2021-08-03 15:00 - 16:00
Learn more about TDL’s OER Ambassadors here.

Research Integrity Working Group Meeting
2021-09-15 13:00 - 14:30
TDL is listening! You said you want to be an advocate for research integrity, so we’re starting a working group just for you. The Research Integrity Working Group is your group: You choose the topics for conversation, you set the meeting schedule, and you choose the activities.
Join us on September 15 via Zoom for the planning meeting.
RESEARCH INTEGRITY WORKING GROUP KICK-OFF
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
1:00pm – 2:30pm Central
Registration is required. Click here to register. Once you’ve registered, you will receive an email confirmation from Zoom with a personal link to join the meeting.
We’ll start by introducing a values-based approach to research integrity. Then we’ll break into small groups to discover ways we can work together to promote integrity in our own research, in our research assistance services, and in our instruction.

Do you want to enhance existing instructional materials?
Do you want to launch a campus-wide research integrity initiative?
What do you want to accomplish?

Come, meet colleagues and forge collaborations on shared projects.
Meet the Facilitators
Dr. Bruce Herbert is Professor of Geology and currently serves as the Director of the Office of Scholarly Communications in the Sterling C. Evans library At Texas A&M University. Dr. Herbert is responsible for strengthening the Library’s efforts in scholarly communications and open access through engagement and collaboration with faculty across Texas A&M University.
Melody Herr, PhD, is Head of the Office of Scholarly Communications at the University of Arkansas. She conducts research and gives presentations on issues related to scholarly publishing, intellectual property, and research misconduct.
Resources
Before the kickoff meeting, you may want to familiarize yourself with core concepts and terminology related to research integrity.
Research integrity topics:

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Research Data Management
Sensitive Data (e.g., patient data, classified data, proprietary data)
Data Fabrication and Falsification
Image Manipulation
Plagiarism
Conflict of Interest / Conflict of Commitment
Advising / Mentoring
Stewardship of Resources
Authorship

Essential reading on research integrity:
Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, et al. On being a scientist: A guide to responsible conduct in research. (2009) https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12192/on-being-a-scientist-a-guide-to-responsible-conduct-in
Herr, Melody. “Responding to Research Misconduct: A Primer for LIS Professionals” (2019)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0194262X.2019.1644268
Resources for teaching research integrity:
Turrens, Julio F., with Michael S. Springer. How to Train Undergraduates in Research Integrity and the Responsible Conduct of Research. Washington, DC: Council on Undergraduate Research, 2020.
https://www.cur.org/documents/?Keywords=how%20to%20train
NIH: https://oir.nih.gov/sourcebook/ethical-conduct/responsible-conduct-research-training
NIH case studies: https://oir.nih.gov/sourcebook/ethical-conduct/responsible-conduct-research-training/annual-review-ethics-case-studies/research-cases-use-nih-community
Office of Research Integrity: https://ori.hhs.gov/
ORI case studies: https://ori.hhs.gov/rcr-casebook-stories-about-researchers-worth-discussing
Ethics Education Library: http://ethics.iit.edu/eelibrary/about
Ethics Education Library case studies: http://ethics.iit.edu/eelibrary/case-study-collection

ABOUT TDL
A collaborative consortium based in Texas and rooted in higher education, the Texas Digital Library builds capacity among our membership for ensuring equitable access to and preservation of digital content of value to research, instruction, cultural heritage, and institutional memory. Membership in TDL is open to any library. Find out more by visiting https://main.tdl.org/members/membership/ or email us at info@tdl.org.

TDL Accessible AV Kickoff Meeting
2021-10-07 12:00 - 13:30
Join TDL Accessible AV to share and learn about accessibility in digital audiovisual collections. We want to create a series of webinars to learn about why and how to make digital AV collections accessible and invite anyone interested in learning more and sharing knowledge. Please sign up for the first meeting session on October 7th, 2021, where we will begin to plan the webinar series. We welcome all who are interested in this topic including collection managers, repository managers, developers, and user advocates.
TDL Accessible AV Kickoff meeting
Thursday, October 7, 2021
12pm – 130pm Central
Registration with a Zoom account is required. Click here to register.
Once you’ve registered, you will receive a confirmation email from Zoom with a personalized link to join the meeting.
Please contact Texas Digital Library at info@tdl.org if you have any questions along the way. We look forward to seeing you on October 7!

GIS Day PechaKucha Event
2021-11-10 15:00 - 17:00
GIS and geospatial data services are popping up in academic libraries and archives all over Texas! Is your institution part of the trend? We want to hear about it!

Texas Digital Library’s GIS Interest Group is hosting a “PechaKucha Event” a week before GIS Day to share experiences, plans, and ideas about how libraries and archives are supporting and promoting GIS activities throughout the state.
GIS Day PechaKucha Event
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Central
Registration is required. Click here to register.
Once you’ve registered, you will receive a confirmation email from Zoom with a personal link to join.

Whether you’re already offering a full suite of GIS services, planning a one-off event, trying to get some maps online, or are just beginning to imagine how you might make use of GIS technologies, we want to hear from YOU. We invite you to share your work and ideas in what we hope will be an informal, fast-paced, and FUN virtual show-and-tell.PechaKucha events traditionally include presentations of 20 images, with 20 seconds commentary each. In other words…presentations are meant to be LIGHTNING FAST and not very in-depth. Think “talk less, show more.”
See some examples here:
https://www.pechakucha.com/
http://healthycitymaps.blogspot.com/2013/11/pecha-kucha-presentation-mapping.html

Please use this form to submit your name, institution, and a brief description of what you’d like to share with us. Slides (20 images by 20 seconds each!) should be submitted no later than Friday Nov 5.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact Texas Digital Library at info@tdl.org. We hope to see you there!

ABOUT the TDL
Texas Digital Library is a consortium of library and archives professionals that propels the Academy forward by maintaining our past and preparing for the future. Membership in TDL is open to any academic library. Find out more by visiting https://main.tdl.org/members/membership/ or email us at info@tdl.org.

January GIS Interest Group
2022-01-28 14:00 - 15:00
TDL’s GIS Interest Group (GISIG) seeks to develop a Community of Practice around geographic information systems (GIS) and become a source of expertise for all Texas Digital Library consortium members and partners.
The GISIG meets monthly on the fourth Friday of the month from 2-3PM CST.
Download calendar invite here.
Click to join our GISIG email list to receive updates and meeting invitations: https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/info/tdl-gis

TCDL Proposal Brainstorming Session #2
2022-02-02 15:00 - 16:00
What a great way to end your Wednesday!
Attend our TCDL Proposal Brainstorming Session where conference committee members will informally talk about the theme and presentation types and allow time for you to chat with us and each other, write your proposal quietly, or connect with other co-presenters.
Use this spreadsheet to connect individuals who are seeking ideas and/or collaboration on session proposals for TCDL. And take a look at the 2022 TCDL Call for Proposals for more information.
Click here to register
Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email from Zoom that includes a personal link to join the meeting.
We look forward to seeing you there!

February OJS User Group
2022-02-03 10:00 - 11:00
The TDL OJS User Group works to create an active community among TDL’s users of the Open Journal System hosting service in the following ways:

By facilitating mutual support among library managers of the OJS hosting service, including the sharing of resources about library publishing policies and good practices
By facilitating better communication between TDL staff and libraries using this service
By identifying areas of work that could be undertaken by member-led working groups

The OJS User Group meets every first Thursday of the month from 10-11AM CST.
TDL’s OJS Users Group is composed of library liaisons for campus journals and is an exclusive benefit for TDL members only. TDL’s OJS Hosting Service Manager serves as a member of the group. Please contact us at info@tdl.org for more information.

Digital Collections Love-In
2022-02-17 13:00 - 14:30
View slides | video
Texas Digital Library wants to hear how you are sharing the digital collections love with your communities.
As part of Love Data Week, join TDL’s newest addition, Elliot Williams, DPLA Service Coordinator, for an informal event to discuss all the ways your library is showing off the materials in your digital collections.
Share your own experiences and hear from others about new digital exhibits & collections, strategies for promoting your collections, and advice about how to use digital materials in outreach, teaching, and more.
EVENT DETAILS
Digital Collections Love-In with Texas Digital Library
Thursday, February 17, 2022
1pm – 2:30pm Central
Registration is required. Click here to register.
Contact info@tdl.org if you have any questions or suggestions.
Header image: “Valentine” from Stephen F. Austin State University Library

February DSpace User Group
2022-02-22 10:00 - 11:00
Texas Digital Library’s DSpace Users Group (DUG) works to create an active community among DSpace users that:

facilitates mutual support for DSpace use and repository management;
identifies areas of work that could be taken on by member working groups or by TDL staff;
connects the TDL DSpace user community to the larger open source DSpace community in North America.

TDL’s DUG meets monthly every fourth Tuesday of the month from 10am – 11am, CST.
Download a recurring calendar invite here.
Any users of DSpace can join the users group, regardless of affiliation with TDL. The group shares updates and information about training and events at our monthly meetings and through the TDL DSpace Users Group Email List. Click here to join.
