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,…
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…
The TDL Web Archiving Texas Interest Group (WATXIG) invites people to come chat about anything related to web archiving, from developing a new web archiving program to current projects, and across tools, techniques, workflows, preservation, and more. This is an…
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 Vireo User Group Steering Committee proudly invites you to the 2026 Vireo Users Group Annual Meeting. This virtual meeting will be held on Monday, October 5, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 12 p.m. Central Time. Please register here. This…
The September DSpace Users Group meeting on September 28 has been rescheduled to October 5. 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…
Join the TDL Imaging Group at a scheduled time to work on those things you would like to get A Round Tu! When: Every 2nd Friday from 1-2 pm. Interested in joining or getting involved in the TDL Imaging Group? Join…
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 Task Force on Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for ETDs is holding an informal discussion to better understand how different institutions are standardizing their ETD metadata and gauge interest in updated Guidelines. This discussion will be recorded for Task Force review…