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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Thank you to all who participated in our call for comment.
TDL’s TxHub Metadata Guidelines have been published in our repository.
Texas Digital Library’s DPLA Metadata Working Group has come together to provide guidance on preparing digital collections for aggregation through the TDL DPLA Service Hub,
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Plans are underway to make site visits to each of our regular member institutions in spring and summer of 2019.
These in-person visits — which we endeavor to carry out every few years — are invaluable for staff at TDL as we think about service improvements and additions and strive to make sure that we’re meeting member needs where we can.
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Navigate the murky waters of OER by signing up for this free webinar series which will help you get started with OER on your campus.
Texas Digital Library is excited to present a new webinar series highlighting practical steps to getting started with OER (open educational resources).
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THINKING GLOBALLY | ACTING REGIONALLY | BENEFITTING LOCALLY
Celebrate the work of academic libraries across Texas. Download our 2017-2018 Annual Report.
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by Courtney Mumma, TDL Deputy Director
The Texas Digital Library and University of Houston partnered to host the first Texas Archivematica Camp in Houston this November. As stated on the wiki for the camp, “inspired by similar events like Hydra Camp,
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Texas Digital Library’s holiday wishlist is all about YOU! Grab a cocoa, channel your holiday hygge, and check out all of the ways you can help TDL fulfill our holiday wishes.
Grow Your Career
TDL will offer lots of professional development next year.
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You have likely seen an announcement this week from the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) announcing its intentions to dissolve the organization.
The Texas Digital Library (TDL) has participated in DPN both as a preservation node within the network, and as a consortial member.
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This Joint statement from the nodes was originally posted here https://duraspace.org/the-digital-preservation-network-dpn-to-cease-operations/.
Message to DPN members from the DPN nodes:
Yesterday, the Digital Preservation Network (DPN) announced plans to cease operations. The individual nodes that collectively provided preservation services to DPN seek to reassure the DPN membership as well as the larger academic and digital preservation communities that we remain confident about the future of digital preservation.
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