Winter 2023 DPLA Harvest

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Our first DPLA harvest of 2023 has arrived, and we are excited to welcome two new members to Texas Digital Library’s DPLA metadata aggregation service! Southern Methodist University and UT Southwestern Medical Center both shared metadata records with the Digital Public Library of America for the first time this month.

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February 2023 @ TDL

All events are online, in Central Standard Time (CST), and require a Zoom account to register and attend. Click here to create a free Zoom account.

SPECIAL EVENTS

February 15 @ 1:00 pm | Digital Collections Love-In
Join us for another edition of the Digital Collections Love-In to share your library’s digital collections and exhibits,

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TDL Hosts First Metadata Office Hours

By Elliot Williams, TDL DPLA Service Coordinator

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Last month, TDL hosted our first Metadata Office Hours event in the TDL Community Slack. A great group of metadata specialists, catalogers, archivists, and students gathered online to talk about all things metadata.

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January 2023 @ TDL

All events are online, in Central Standard Time (CST), and require a Zoom account to register and attend. Click here to create a free Zoom account.

SPECIAL EVENTS

January 25 @ 10:00 am | TCDL Proposal Co-Working Session
Not sure about your research topic,

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Meet the TCDL 2023 Planning Committee

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The goal of the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries is to bring together those working on digital projects in order to build a practical, usable, and sustainable model for digital libraries.

Our planning committee defines the conference each year by developing a theme,

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TDL’s Fab-brew-lous Holiday Wishlist for 2022

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Pour yourself a cuppa and check out all of the ways you can help TDL fulfill our holiday wishes.

Percolate your career 

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TDL will offer lots of professional development in the coming year.

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Meet Meagan, TDL’s New Administrative Associate

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Meagan Hernandez (she/her/hers) joined Texas Digital Library staff as an Administrative Associate in December 2022.

Where did you go to school?
I received my B.A. in English with a concentration in Professional Writing from UTSA.

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Texas Digital Library & Portico: A Community-Based Digital Preservation Partnership

The Texas Digital Library (TDL), with our colleagues at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), are proud to announce a partnership with Portico to support the mission of preserving the scholarly record. 

Portico is a community-supported digital preservation service that safeguards access to e-journals,

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December 2022 @ TDL

All events are online, in Central Standard Time (CST), and require a Zoom account to register and attend. Click here to create a free Zoom account.

SPECIAL EVENTS

December 9 @ 1:00 pm | Holiday Hangout
Everyone is invited to the TDL Holiday Hangout!

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Welcome UTSA to TxHub and DPLA

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It’s fall, which means that another DPLA harvest has come! Every three months, institutions who participate in TDL’s DPLA Aggregation Service through TxHub update their metadata records with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).

This month, TDL is excited to include the University of Texas at San Antonio in their first DPLA harvest. 

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