Technology, Research and Growth
Texas State University, Alkek Library is focused on technology, research and growth. As a recently designated, Carnegie class higher research university, Alkek library is currently proactively expanding technology capacity, online digital research possibilities and learning commons infrastructures.
In terms of physical technologies,
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SAVE THE DATE! The Texas Digital Library will hold its first ever TDL Data Symposium, hosted by Baylor University Libraries on November 15th and 16th, 2016 in Waco, Texas.
This two-day event is designed to support the development of a core community of TDL member librarians who support research data services on their campuses.
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The Texas Digital Library is happy to welcome Nicholas Woodward to our team as a Software Engineer. Nicholas comes to the TDL with experience at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, the University of Texas (UT) Austin Libraries, and the Library of Congress. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
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The Texas Digital Library (TDL) will launch a new data repository service in Fall 2016 for the benefit of faculty, students, and staff and its member institutions. The data repository is an implementation of Dataverse, an open source data repository platform developed at and used by Harvard University. The Dataverse software platform allows researchers to publish,
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The Texas Digital Library is pleased to sponsor the formation of a Texas Archivematica Users Group for those institutions exploring or actively using Archivematica, an open source suite of tools for processing digital objects for long-term preservation.
Drew Krewer, Digitization Services Coordinator at the University of Houston Libraries,
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We are delighted to announce the three winners of the TDL Member travel scholarships for the upcoming POWRR workshops!
The Texas Digital Library and the ACRL Digital Curation Interest Group are co-sponsoring the two POWRR workshops, to be held at Trinity University in San Antonio,
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The first symposium of the Southern Central States Fedora Users Group will take place July 18th and 19th in Norman, Oklahoma on the University of Oklahoma campus.
The Southern Central States Fedora Users Group welcomes anyone in the region both currently using Fedora and considering use of Fedora for management of digital assets as a repository or archive.
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The University of Houston (UH) celebrated the accomplishments of tenured and promoted faculty and librarians at a reception held this spring. The UH Tenure and Promotion Recognition Program was created to honor faculty and librarians who have recently achieved tenure or have been promoted. In the program’s inaugural year, 2015 honorees were invited to select a book that has offered inspiration or encouragement in their professional journey.
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TDL Members receive a discounted registration rate for the 2016 Internet Librarian Conference. The TDL Member discount is for the Full 3-Day Conference Registration.
To receive the TDL Member discount, use the link below or enter the TDL Member discount code to complete online registration by September 16,
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The DSpace Education Working Group has put together a survey to gauge what kind of DSpace training needs there are among TDL’s members. It’s a rather short survey, and we’d love to have your input while we figure out what to share and how to go about sharing it!
Please take a few minutes to fill out the DSpace Training Needs Survey,
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