The 2019 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries brought together over 200 librarians, archivists, technologists, students, and information professionals to explore perspectives. All of us at Texas Digital Library found this year’s conference more fun and inspiring than ever. Below are just a few highlights listing the ways #tcdl2019 was our best TCDL yet.
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The 2019 awards winners represent a variety of institutions and projects. Digital humanities, digital preservation, digital scholarship, and open access projects at academic libraries and community archives from Texas and beyond are among this year’s winners, showcasing the cross disciplinary and inter-institutional partnerships that libraries and archives leverage so well.
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Join us for an Intro to Pressbooks webinar in May. Here are the details:
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2019
Time: 2-3pm CST
Presenters: Pressbooks EDU personnel Elizabeth Mays, Director of Sales & Marketing, and Steel Wagstaff,
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By Rachael Zipperer, Masters Candidate at the University of Texas School of Information
One of the most important factors (and one of the biggest challenges) in preserving and making digital objects discoverable is metadata. In simpler terms,
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By Rachael Zipperer, Masters Candidate at the University of Texas School of Information
Digital archives can also be a home for materials from community members. Stephen F. Austin State’s Community Collections are a great example of bringing community members into the digital archive.
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By Rachael Zipperer, Masters Candidate at the University of Texas School of Information
Digital repositories are often home to recent scholarship. Housing electronic dissertations and theses and other scholarly works in digital repositories gives scholars greater exposure and contributes to the larger scholarly community by sharing research openly.
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By Rachael Zipperer, Masters Candidate at the University of Texas School of Information
Key to engaging participants in digital preservation is understanding what a digital repository is and its role in preserving digital content. When physical items are preserved,
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By Rachael Zipperer, Masters Candidate at the University of Texas School of Information
This week is the American Library Association’s Preservation Week,
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Regular members of the Texas Digital Library Consortium can now save on PressbooksEDU book production networks.
EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2020: The PressbooksEDU Gold plan has been discontinued; it is no longer available to new subscribers. TDL regular members are eligible for 30% off PressbooksEDU Silver plans and also receive a 30% discount when purchasing Pressbooks’ FTE-priced LTI add-on to Silver through Dec.
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Web Archiving Texas is an opportunity to build a community around web archiving in Texas, bringing people together to share skills and resources, and to amplify our work that impacts the national and international web archiving community. Join Texas Digital Library at Baylor University in Waco,
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