OER @ TDL: OER Course Marking: Promoting Open & Affordable Resources
2025-07-30 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | online
Course marking—the practice of designating courses that use open educational resources (OER) or other no- or low-cost resources—helps students identify affordable course options in their class schedules, enabling them to make informed decisions when they register for classes. In addition to providing valuable information to students, course markings also help institutions assess the use and impact of OER. However, it can be challenging to initiate and maintain this process of marking courses, which often involve a large number of stakeholders across the institution. In this session, we will hear how three institutions have initiated and improved upon course marking processes for their students. They will share their challenges, successes, and future plans to establish sustainable course marking workflows in order to better promote open and affordable resources.

Quarterly OER @ TDL meetings are organized by the TDL OER Users Group and are open to anyone interested, regardless of membership in the Texas Digital Library.
The OER @ TDL meetings are not recorded in order to cultivate candid conversations. Presentations and resources shared during the meeting will be shared with registrants afterward.

Contributors:

DeeAnn Ivie, Open Education Coordinator, The University of Texas at San Antonio, (she/her)
Lisa Louis, Director, User and Research Services, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (she/her)
Kyle Gullings, Professor, School of Performing Arts, The University of Texas at Tyler (he/him)

Moderator: Kate McNally Carter, Open Education Librarian, University of Houston (she/her)
Registration is required.

Webinar: OJS Accessibility for Journal Managers and Editors
2025-09-25 11:00 - 12:00
Description
In this webinar, members of TDL’s OJS Accessibility Working Group will discuss federal requirements for ensuring accessibility of digital materials for users with disabilities and their implications for managers of Open Access journals. Attendees will receive information about recommended editorial workflows and journal policies, templates and checklists, and other resources that will help them bring their journal content into compliance with these regulations – and make their journals more readily accessible to a much broader range of readers and scholars.
Intended audience: Faculty and staff who manage or serve as editors for TDL-hosted journals. Librarians supporting Open Access publishing via Open Journal Systems.
This webinar will be recorded and the recording shared with registrants.
Presenters

Mark Baggett, Director of Digital Collections, University Libraries, Texas A&M University
Alexa Hight, Assistant Director for Research and Data Services, Texas State University
Susan Hoover, Metadata Services Coordinator, University of Houston
Michelle McCrary, Head of Digital Initiatives, Sam Houston State University
Kristi Park, Executive Director, Texas Digital Library

Register for the OJS Accessibility for Journal Managers and Editors Webinar. (Free)

WATXIG Browsertrix Workshop
2026-02-25 14:00 - 15:30 | online
Hosted by TDL and the Web Archiving Texas Interest Group, staff from Webrecorder will provide a hands-on workshop where attendees can gain experience archiving content from the Web using Browsertrix. Offered as a cloud-hosted service (possible to run self-hosted), Browsertrix facilitates crawling dynamic content, embedded media, and sites requiring login with features including crawl scheduling, automated quality assurance, and custom browser behaviors. For those more experienced with command-line tools, Browsertrix Crawler, its crawling component, can be run independently at the command-line.
Please join us to learn how Browsertrix might support your library’s high-fidelity web archiving needs. No previous web archiving experience necessary!
Registration is required.

Responsible AI in Practice: The Viewfinder Toolkit for Values-Driven AI in Libraries and Archives
2026-06-23 11:00 - 12:00
Texas Digital Library (TDL) invites you to an upcoming webinar entitled Responsible AI in Practice: The Viewfinder Toolkit for Values-Driven AI in Libraries and Archives. This will be the first in a summer webinar series on AI and Machine Learning.
Webinar description and details
AI hype is everywhere! Libraries and archives see AI as a potential tool for improving our resources and services, but we also want to uphold our professional values and protect our communities from harm. Our team developed the Viewfinder toolkit to help practitioners reflect on how and whether AI can be implemented responsibly. This webinar introduces the toolkit and guides participants through its use.
Webinar series: AI and Machine Learning
Date: June 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM Central
Location: Virtual | Free registration is required.
Presented by: Sara Mannheimer (Professor – Data Librarian, Montana State University and Director, Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives) and Scott W. H. Young (Professor – UX Librarian, Montana State University)

AI in Trusted Data Repositories - Reflections from Exploration and Experimentation at ICPSR
2026-07-21 14:00 - 15:00 | online
The implications for AI are reflected throughout the research data lifecycle, organizational workflows, and infrastructure. In this webinar, we will share reflections from exploration and experimentation with AI at ICPSR, from deposit and ingest to metadata enrichment to policy & governance. We will leave time at the end of the presentation for an interactive session regarding AI workflow, governance, infrastructure, data, and, ultimately, impact and sustainability.
Webinar series: AI and Machine Learning
Date: July 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM Central
Location: Virtual | Free registration is required.
Presented by:

Aalap Doshi, Director, Computing and Network Services, ICPSR at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Jeanette Jackson, Director of Strategic Initiatives, ICPSR at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Georeference-A-Thon
2026-07-30 10:00 - 12:00 | online
This summer the GIS Interest Group will host the second Georeference-A-Thon event! We will be introducing a free tool AllMaps to help with this project. This uses a iiif manifest and maps will be prepared with this manifest. Attendees are also welcome to bring maps that they would like to work on that has this iiif manifest.
Registration is required.

Navigating Uncertainty Together: A Digital POWRR Reflection Workshop for Digital Preservation Practice
2026-09-25 11:00 - 12:30 | online
Digital preservation work increasingly takes place under conditions of uncertainty: shifting funding landscapes, evolving systems, unclear authority, and emotional strain. While technical assessment frameworks help institutions evaluate infrastructure and workflows, they rarely address the human experience of stewardship work—confidence, safety, belonging, and sustainability.
This interactive workshop introduces and applies Navigating Uncertainty, a human-centered reflection and assessment framework developed by the Digital POWRR team through the Digital POWRR Peer Assessment Program. Participants will actively complete the framework for their own professional context and engage in structured peer dialogue using guided reflection prompts.
Rather than producing a formal assessment outcome, the workshop emphasizes learning through reflection and conversation. Participants are invited to surface insights, clarify next steps, and reconnect with a sense of agency and community, highlighting how shared understanding and connection can be sources of joy even amid uncertainty.

Date: September 25, 2026
Time: 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Central Time
Presenter: Stacey Jones, Digital Preservation Librarian, University of Arizona

Registration is required.
