1. Emphasize “scholarly” and “universities” to distinguish TDL from other efforts.
A digital infrastructure for the scholarly activities of Texas universities

2. Challenges Increasing demands on research and education infrastructure
Underutilized intellectual capital on campuses
Global movement to transform scholarly communication
THECB “Regional Plan for Higher Education” … 500,000 new students, 7500 new faculty by 2015 … scarce resources
An enormous amount of intellectual capital exists that is not readily available to faculty, staff, and students throughout the State … value is actually zero
Institutions of higher education are creating open access journals and federated institutional repositories to publish the intellectual products of their faculty

3. Addressing the Challenges
A unified Texas Digital Library
Collaboration among Texas ARLs
Sharing of resources
Hard work
Patience

4. Partners Initially Later
The 5 Texas ARL libraries: UT, A&M, TT, Rice, UH
Later
All of higher education in Texas

5. TDL
Center of excellence for the creation, curation, and preservation of digital scholarly information for the State
Repository for research output:
electronic theses and dissertations
faculty datasets, departmental databases, digital archives
course management and learning materials
digital media, special collections, etc.
Platform for continued leadership in evolving scholarly communication systems

6. TDL
Provides an innovative organizational model that effectively leverages advanced technology
Produces institutional efficiencies in operations, equipment, and staffing
Provides a testbed for research
Advances our core research and teaching missions

7. Location Initially Later Central facility in Austin at UT
Distributed centers at the 5 Texas ARLs
Later
Each university will likely have repositories of their own

8. Services Institutional repositories Learning object repositories
Course management systems
Scholarly publishing
Collections management
Preservation

9. Technologies Open source software Open archives initiative
Internet2 and LEARN
Web
Standards

10. Status Lots of activity behind the scenes Target: February 1, 2006
Metadata standards for ETDs
Funding and Organization
Technical Briefing Dec. 13, 2005 in Austin
Target: February 1, 2006
Website
Open Journal System
Journal of Digital Information (JoDI)
Federated Institutional Repository
Electronic Theses and Dissertations

11. Organization Executive committee Technical committee
Staff in Austin (small)
Contributed resources from collaborating partners

12. Impacts Increases the institution’s visibility and impact
Increases value of intellectual capital by increasing accessibility to products of scholarship and research
Increases competitiveness for research funding
Maximizes the research capabilities of faculties by increasing the pace of scholarly dissemination and discovery

13. Impacts
Increases stature as a leader in developing new working models for publication and dissemination of scholarly, research, and educational information
Advances core teaching and research missions by fostering innovation in education and research
Preserves intellectual assets for future generations of researchers, teachers, students, and scholars

14. The Texas Digital Library will surely become one of the most important tools for research and education in Texas for the future.