A Blue Ribbon Task Force formed in 2007 to investigate Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access has released its final report. You can read the full report here.
TDL and the Texas Water Digital Library
The Texas Digital Library (TDL) and its partners have begun the process of developing a new collaborative resource for sharing water data across the state of Texas. That resource, the Texas Water Digital Library, will federate water research from across the state in a TDL-hosted DSpace repository. The repository will create a single place for researchers to search for water data from every region of the state.
TDL offers courses on Vireo and Open Conference Systems
Sign up now for March 25 training courses: ETD Management with Vireo and Online Conference Management with OCS.
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Tags: ETDs, Open Conference Systems, training, user resources, Vireo
Tags: ETDs, Open Conference Systems, training, user resources, Vireo
TDL travels to WebWise 2010
TDL co-director Mark McFarland attended WebWise 2010 to showcase Vireo, the TDL’s submission and management system for electronic theses and dissertations.
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Tags: Conferences, ETDs, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Vireo, WebWise
Tags: Conferences, ETDs, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Vireo, WebWise
New issue of Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is available
The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, an online scholarly journal hosted by the TDL Electronic Press, has released its latest issue entitled “Virtual Economies, Virtual Goods and Service Delivery in Virtual Worlds.”
Scholarly Electronic Journals training course rescheduled for March 11
The Scholarly Electronic Journals training course originally planned for February 23 has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 11, 2010. The course had been postponed due to inclement weather in the Waco area.
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Tags: Electronic Journals, training, user resources
Tags: Electronic Journals, training, user resources
Registration is open for TCDL 2010!
The TDL is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 4th annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, to be held May 17-18, 2010, in Austin, Texas.
JISC offers resource for digital repository management
JISC has released the Digital Repositories InfoKit, a resource for planning and managing digital repositories.
Member Story: Baylor Electronic Library’s Gospel Music Collection
Through their digital collections, Texas Digital Library member Baylor University and its Baylor Electronic Library are preserving rare and fragile cultural materials, while at the same time making them more widely available to scholars, researchers, and the public.
TDL announces keynote speakers for TCDL 2010
Dr. Leslie Carr and Dr. Reagan Moore will deliver the keynote addresses at the 2010 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. TCDL 2010 takes place May 17-18 in Austin, Texas.