2024 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Commons Learning Center, Austin, Texas
10100 Burnet Road
Austin, TX 78758
Dates: May 21 – 23, 2024
Theme: Reigniting Curiosity
We’ve adapted, innovated, and survived, but now it’s time to reignite our curiosity! The Texas Conference on Digital Libraries welcomes you back to Austin to share your new endeavors and inspire each other with pioneering projects, services, and ideas.
This year, the TCDL Planning Committee invites you to consider how curiosity brings life and imagination to your work in libraries and archives.
Keynote Speakers: Patricia Hswe & Gabriel Solís
Patricia Hswe (she/her)
Dr. Patricia Hswe is the Program Director for Public Knowledge at the Mellon Foundation. In this role, she leads the program’s work on a range of grants and initiatives supporting libraries, archives, museums, universities, presses, and other institutions that further the world’s collective knowledge of the humanities.
Previously, Dr. Hswe was the Digital Content Strategist at Penn State University Libraries, where she co-founded and co-directed the first cross-functional department to focus on digital humanities, library-based publishing, research data curation, and institutional repository services. She began working in academic libraries as a Council on Library and Information Resources postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). After receiving her library degree, she worked at UIUC as the program manager for several digital preservation projects funded by the Library of Congress. Earlier in her career, Dr. Hswe served as an in-house editor for Bruccoli Clark Layman (now Layman Poupard), publisher of reference works in literary and social history, and taught in the Russian department at Amherst College.
She holds an AB in Russian language and literature from Mount Holyoke College, an MS in library and information science from UIUC, and a PhD in Slavic languages and literatures from Yale University. Dr. Hswe has led a variety of committees in the Modern Language Association and the Association of College and Research Libraries. Currently, she serves on the Board of Trustees for METRO (Metropolitan New York Library Council).
Opening Keynote Session on May 21, 2024
“Reigniting to Reimagine: Memory Work, Stewardship, and Social Justice”
- About Mellon and the Public Knowledge program
- What is “memory work” and why does it matter?
- Memory work as socially just stewardship
- Organizations
- People
- Content / Collections
- Closing reflections & provocations / Q&A
Gabriel Solís (he/him)
Gabriel Solís is the executive director of the Texas After Violence Project, a community archive that fosters deeper understandings of the impacts of state violence. Gabriel is currently advising on the creation of a digital archive for government records related to the Trump Administration’s Family Separation and Detention policies. Gabriel is also working with Shift Collective to evaluate the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Recordings at Risk grant program, serves on the Advisory Team for We Here’s Dream-Shaping Our Community project, and serves on the Advisory Board for the Community-Centered Archives Practice: Transforming Education, Archives, and Community History (C-CAP TEACH) project at UC Irvine. Previously Gabriel advised the Ford Foundation Reclaiming the Border Narrative initiative, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Oral History Project, the UCLA Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration project, Shift Collective’s Historypin research exploring decentralized digital storage for community archives, and as a Fellowship Mentor for Fanny Garcia’s Separated, a project documenting the lived experiences of parents separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border under the “zero tolerance” policy in 2018.
Gabriel is the recipient of the 2018 Pushcart Prize for nonfiction. His writings have appeared in Texas Monthly, Texas Observer,Oxford American, Scalawag, Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics, and Power, and Kula: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies. Gabriel was named the 2023 University of California Regents Fellow in Information Studies.
Closing Keynote Session on May 23, 2024
“New Voices in Digital Preservation”
The Closing Plenary session features “New Voices in Digital Preservation,” a special presentation designed to provide a fresh perspective on the challenges of and strategies for digital preservation of unique digital materials. The presentation will be pre-recorded followed by a live Q&A with Gabriel Solís, Executive Director of Texas After Violence Project.
Texas After Violence Project is a public memory archive that fosters deeper understandings of the impacts of state violence. It documents the voices, experiences, and perspectives of people directly impacted by violence in Texas.
The session is sponsored by Portico.
Conference Proceedings
The 2024 TCDL Conference Proceedings are available in the Texas Digital Library (TDL) repository.
TCDL 2024 Announcements
TCDL 2024 Student Scholarship Recipients
- Jessica Garcia, Texas Woman’s University
- kYmberly Keeton, University of North Texas
- T Lim, University of Texas at Austin
- Sarah Salomon, Texas Woman’s University
The TCDL student scholarship program is made possible by a generous anonymous donation from TDL members. Congratulations to all!
Sponsors
Thank you to our 2024 TCDL sponsors!
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TCDL 2024 Planning Committee
Chair: Diane Lopez, University of Texas at San Antonio
Vice-Chair: Heidi Winkler, Texas Tech University
Ian Barba, Texas Tech University
Susan Elkins, Sam Houston State University
Karina Franco, University of Texas at San Antonio
Ginger Garza, Texas Woman’s University
Paloma Graciani Picardo, University of Texas at Austin
Meagan Hernandez, Texas Digital Library
Ke’ara Hunt, Texas Digital Library
Sylvia Jones, Southern Methodist University
Colleen Lyon, University of Texas at Austin
Tom Lyons, University of North Texas Health Science Center
Marcia McIntosh, University of North Texas
Courtney Mumma, Texas Digital Library
Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library
Joseph Pruett, Angelo State University
Phebe Raglin, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Jane Scott, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Adrian Shapiro, Texas Woman’s University
Jeremy Thompson, University of Texas at Austin
About the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Since 2007, the Texas Digital Library has hosted the annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). TCDL covers topics relevant to the creation, promotion, dissemination, and preservation of research, scholarship, and cultural heritage digital materials. The goal of TCDL is to bring together those working on digital projects — including outreach librarians, repository managers, catalogers, faculty members, technical staff, and others — in order to build a practical, usable, and sustainable model for digital libraries.
TCDL encourages and welcomes participation from students, scholars, librarians, researchers, faculty, and users from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. All are welcome!
Read TCDL’s Code of Conduct and Land Acknowledgement.