Texas Digital Library

Registration is now open for Open Texas 2024!

The Open Texas conference will once again convene librarians, faculty, administrators, and other open education practitioners, researchers, and advocates in Texas and beyond.

The conference will be held fully online and is free to attend.

This year's theme is "Global Horizons of Open Education: The View from Texas" happening September 25-27, 2024.

Register here: https://www.opentexas.org/open-texas-2024

What’s Happening @ TDL includes a monthly lineup of TDL member group meetings, service updates, events, webinars, and more. ✅ Check out what’s happening in August: https://www.tdl.org/2024/07/august-2024-tdl/

Save the date! Join us next year for the 2025 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, happening May 20-22 in Austin, TX!

We're now seeking Planning Committee members! Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3Lco7IE

Deadline: Friday, July 26 at 5 p.m. CDT.

If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected]. We look forward to working with you!

Friendly reminder to submit your proposals for Open Texas 2024 by Friday, June 28 at 11:59 PM CDT.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3RzrP31

Great news! The deadline has been extended for Open Texas 2024 proposal submissions.

Extended Deadline: Friday, June 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM CDT

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3RzrP31

Summer is officially here! 😎

What’s Happening @ TDL includes a monthly lineup of TDL member group meetings, service updates, events, webinars, and more. Check out what’s happening in July. ✅

https://www.tdl.org/2024/06/july-2024-tdl/

Great news! The deadline has been extended for Open Texas 2024 proposal submissions.

Extended Deadline: Friday, June 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM CDT

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3RzrP31

Happening TOMORROW! Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/3x8akQ5

Community-supported, values-driven digital preservation services operate in a landscape where the increasing economic, labor, and climate challenges are too big for any one organization to tackle alone.

Educopia Institute and the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative (APTrust, Chronopolis, CLOCKSS, Lyrasis, the MetaArchive Cooperative, and Texas Digital Library) would like to invite you to a webinar exploring the findings, recommendations, and opportunities illuminated by the IMLS-funded Sustainable Community-Owned Partnerships in Digital Preservation: DPSC Planning Project Final Report.

🗓️ Friday, June 14 at 10:30am CDT
💻 Online
🎟️ Free

Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/3x8akQ5

Community-supported, values-driven digital preservation services operate in a landscape where the increasing economic, labor, and climate challenges are too big for any one organization to tackle alone.

Educopia Institute and the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative (APTrust, Chronopolis, CLOCKSS, Lyrasis, the MetaArchive Cooperative, and Texas Digital Library) would like to invite you to a webinar exploring the findings, recommendations, and opportunities illuminated by the IMLS-funded Sustainable Community-Owned Partnerships in Digital Preservation: DPSC Planning Project Final Report.

🗓️ Friday, June 14 at 10:30am CDT
💻 Online
🎟️ Free

Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/3x8akQ5

The 2024 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, held on May 21-23, reunited our community of librarians, archivists, technologists, students, and information professionals to hone skills, demonstrate new tools, and cultivate connections. All of us at Texas Digital Library found this year’s conference re-energizing and illuminating in the creativity brought to our conference program.💡

You can now access the proceedings in TDL’s DSpace repository. https://bit.ly/3Vv6auQ

ANNOUNCING the recipients of the 2024 TDL Awards!

We at Texas Digital Library are continually inspired by the amazing work going on within our member libraries and other organizations throughout Texas and the region – work that furthers TDL’s mission of ensuring long term, equitable access to digital content of value to research, instruction, cultural heritage, and institutional memory. We are honored to play a part in facilitating some of that work, and the TDL Awards are an opportunity for us to recognize the labor, creativity, and expertise of the library and archives workers in our community.

TDL Awards Recipients were honored in the opening plenary session of on May 21, 2024. Congratulations to all! 🌟

Read more: https://bit.ly/3RdQR7t

We wanted to take a moment to congratulate Digital Librarian Ima Oduok for her outstanding work at Texas Digital Library. As today is Ima’s last day as a TDL staffer, please join us in wishing her farewell and the best along her career path!

Check out Ima’s blog post: “Born Digital Processing and Preservation Collaborative Project”

“As I started my second year of residency, I looked for a project that would be more long-term and focused on my interest in gaining hands-on experience in digital processing and preservation. It worked out that a TDL member, the University of Houston Libraries, had a backlog of born digital materials that were donated to Special Collections. These objects had been inventoried and transferred to the network drive but not yet been added to the preservation system, finding aids, or reading room computers.”

Read more: https://bit.ly/3yKY74p

Cheers, Ima!🎉

Photo credit: Parker Lunsford

There's still time to submit your proposals for Open Texas 2024!

Texas Digital Library and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board are now accepting proposals for the third Open Texas Conference, to be held virtually September 25-27, 2024. Open Texas 2024 will once again bring together practitioners and advocates, including librarians, faculty, and administrators, to connect the thriving open education community of Texas.

We look forward to seeing your proposals and to your contributions to make Open Texas 2024 a landmark event in the world of open education.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3RzrP31

Deadline: June 15, 2024 at 11:59 PM CDT

Happy almost Summer! ☀️

What’s Happening @ TDL includes a monthly lineup of TDL member group meetings, service updates, events, webinars, and more. ✅ Check out what’s happening in June: https://bit.ly/4aCyZtX

Thank you for helping to make the 2024 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries a success! We’re still buzzing with excitement from the engaging presentations, enthusiastic demonstrations, and thoughtful conversations. A HUGE thank you to the attendees, speakers, Planning Committee members, sponsors, Commons Conference Center staff, volunteers, and so many more! We couldn’t have done it without your time, energy, and support.✨

Did you attend ? Take our Post-Conference Survey to share your experience with us. https://bit.ly/4aIDqTQ

📷: Parker Lunsford

Did you attend ? Take the Post-Conference Survey to share your experience with us. We value your feedback as it allows us to make the Conference better in the future. Thank you for Reigniting Your Curiosity!💡

The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. https://bit.ly/4aIDqTQ

Deadline: Sunday, June 2, 2024.

EBSCO is a proud sponsor of the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Stop by the EBSCO booth for branded swag and to learn more about EBSCO products.

Today's the last day to register for !🛜 We hope we'll see you next week.

The countdown is on! We’re looking forward to reconnecting with all of our friends in the digital library community at . 🛜

Still need to register? There's still time to secure your tickets now through May 17, 2024. Learn more: https://bit.ly/426LScT

We hope to see you soon!

A reminder that the last day to register for is Friday, May 17.

The countdown is on! We’re looking forward to reconnecting with all of our friends in the digital library community at . 🛜

Still need to register? There's still time to secure your tickets now through May 17, 2024. Learn more: https://bit.ly/426LScT

We hope to see you soon!

As we gear up for next week, we wanted to share some helpful resources for all attendees to have on hand while participating in the conference.

✅ Post-conference survey

✅ Code of Conduct

✅ Program schedule

✅ Building layout

✅ Local resources

✅ Connect with us at TDL

✅ Land Acknowledgement

Learn more: bit.ly/3UNPWg0

REMINDER: Today's the last day to book your stay at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel using our special rate for !🏨

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3HuaqTy

is right around the corner! We've added another great hotel to consider when preparing for your travels to Austin, TX for the conference.

Secure your stay at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel - Austin Northwest Arboretum.🏨 The hotel is just a few short miles from the Commons Conference Center.

Our special rate is available until May 13! Learn more: https://bit.ly/3HuaqTy

Texas Digital Library and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board are thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Proposals for Open Texas 2024, taking place September 25-27!

Join us on an extraordinary voyage at Open Texas 2024 as we delve into Global Horizons of Open Education: The View from Texas. This year, we are transcending traditional boundaries to foster innovative, inspiring, and transformative ideas that reflect the essence of open education through the lens of Texas. We aim to challenge the limits of the imaginable, integrating educational theory and practice with a focus on global collaboration and sustainable innovation. Your proposals should illuminate paths towards not only advancing open education but also ensuring its sustainability and adaptability for future generations.

Learn more: opentexas.org/open-texas-2024

The deadline to submit your proposals is Saturday, June 15 at 11:59 PM CDT.

If you have questions or suggestions about the Open Texas call for proposals, please email us at [email protected]. 📧

The 2024 conference will again be held fully online and is free to attend.

We are so excited to announce Gabriel Solís as our Closing Plenary speaker at !

Gabriel is the Executive Director of the Texas After Violence Project, 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 includes “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. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3URHIDF

Thank you to Portico for sponsoring the session.

Join us at TCDL 2024 on May 21-23 in Austin, TX! The registration deadline is May 17. 🛜

Texas Digital Library is excited to announce EBSCO as a Capacity level sponsor!

EBSCO is a leading provider of research databases, e-journal and e-package subscription management, book collection development and acquisition management, and a major provider of library technology, e-books and clinical decision solutions for universities, colleges, hospitals, corporations, government, K12 schools and public libraries worldwide.

represents a valuable opportunity to engage with a dedicated community of digital library professionals from Texas and beyond, gathered all in one place. We encourage all attendees to connect with EBSCO and learn more about the services they offer.🤝

Thank you to EBSCO and all of our TCDL 2024 sponsors! Learn how you can become a sponsor here: https://bit.ly/3Hwi2Fj

Join us at TCDL 2024 on May 21-23 in Austin, TX! The registration deadline is May 17. 🛜

The countdown is on! We’re looking forward to reconnecting with all of our friends in the digital library community at . 🛜

Still need to register? There's still time to secure your tickets now through May 17, 2024. Learn more: https://bit.ly/426LScT

We hope to see you soon!

✨REMINDER: Today is the last day of early bird registration for !✨

Secure your tickets: https://bit.ly/426LScT

Be sure to visit the Paperboy Digital Consulting table at TCDL 2024. Meet Bryan Benilous, Founder and Chief Consultant. He is happy to talk with you about helping digitize your archival material. Paperboy Digital Consulting is focused on supporting Open Access initiatives, helping diversify the corpus of digitized content and building a community for collaboration and peer support.

Paperboy Digital:
"Visit our website www.paperboydigital.com and schedule a 30 minute introductory chat. https://calendly.com/bryan-benilous. Looking forward to seeing you all in Austin."

REMINDER: Today's the last day to book your stay at the Fairfield Inn & Suites using our special rate for . 🏨 Secure your room: https://bit.ly/3HuaqTy

ANNOUNCING: The program is now available!

It’s time to plan your conference experience - From panel discussions and lightning talks that invite you to consider how curiosity sparks life and imagination to your work in libraries and archives to our keynote address by Dr. Patricia Hswe to networking sessions where you can learn how to crochet 🧶 or practice martial arts 🥋 and our closing plenary featuring Gabriel Solís - we hope you will find countless ways to expand your knowledge and network at TCDL.

Learn more: https://tcdl2024.sched.com/

A HUGE thank you to the TCDL 2024 Planning Committee for their hard work in crafting an exciting program. And thank you to our presenters and to everyone who submitted proposals for this year’s conference.

We hope you’ll reignite your curiosity and join us on May 21-23 in Austin, Texas!💡

Today's the last day to book your stay at the Hampton Inn using our special rates for ! 🛏️

Secure your room today: https://bit.ly/3HuaqTy