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,…
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…
The TDL OJS Users 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…
The TDL OER Users Group (OUG) encourages the widespread use of open educational resources (OER) across Texas institutions by creating opportunities for open education advocates and practitioners to come together to exchange information and create resources for TDL members and the broader…
Texas Digital Library’s Digital Preservation Services Users and other Texas-based workers interested in digital preservation topics meet quarterly on the third Thursday of the month from 2:00 PM to 2:50 PM. This meeting is open to anyone interested in TDL’s and Texas…
The Texas Digital Library invites members to attend the TDL Forum, a monthly meeting in which members can hear a brief presentation about the activities of the TDL staff and participate in a question-and-answer period. If you have questions about…
The TDL Open Access Interest Group provides a community for exploring topics related to Open Access broadly interpreted to encompass the traditional definition of Open Access (free, online access to research outputs using open licenses) and the ways that the principles of…
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…
The TDL Web Archiving Texas Interest Group (WATXIG) aims 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…
Member Group leaders (chairs and vice chairs) are invited to attend quarterly office hours sessions with TDL staff and other leaders. These optional office hours are informal and unstructured times to ask questions and get help, share the work going…