1. TDL MEMBER FORUM tdl.org
Monthly forum for members of the Texas Digital Library, September 20, 2017
Kristi Park, TDL Director | Ryan Steans, TDL Assistant Director
Courtney Mumma, TDL Services Manager | Lea DeForest, TDL Communication Strategist
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2. Agenda
Director’s Update (Kristi Park, TDL) Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (Eric Ames, Baylor) Digital Preservation Services Update (Courtney Mumma, TDL) Texas Data Repository Steering Committee Update (Courtney) Upcoming conferences and meetings (Lea DeForest, TDL) Open Floor: Questions and discussion (Kristi)
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3. Director’s Update Member updates and TDL goings-on for September 2017
Kristi Park, TDL Director
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4. Director’s Update
Hurricane Harvey Impact and Grant Opportunity Elsevier’s purchase of bepress Participate in IMLS Funded Survey on Digital Library Content Reuse Goings on at TDL
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5. Hurricane Harvey tdl.org
Funding available for libraries effected by Hurricane Harvey: Texas State Library and Archives Commission and Texas Library Association The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) will offer “Rebuilding Texas Libraries” disaster relief grants to public, school, and academic libraries in Texas counties affected by Hurricane Harvey. Libraries in the counties declared a disaster area will be eligible to receive up to $5,000 per affected location, with a maximum of $25,000 for libraries with multiple affected branches. National Endowment for the Humanities Cultural institutions in FEMA-designated disaster areas of Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and other impacted states and U.S. territories can apply immediately for NEH Chairman’s Emergency Grants of up to $30,000 to preserve documents, books, photographs, art works, historical objects, sculptures, and structures damaged by the hurricane and subsequent flooding. NEH will award up to $1 million in emergency grants.
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6. The Future of OA
Most of us have heard this big news that publishing giant Elsevier has acquired bepress, the company behind the Digital Commons repository platform.
The acquisition is one of SEVERAL strategic acquisitions Elsevier has made over the past months, as they have been signaling their intention to (a) assert control over research workflows at every stage of the research lifecycle and (b) stake a claim in the Open Access marketplace.
The acquisition has caused some disquiet in the academic library community among those concerned that the dysfunction caused by semi-monopolistic commercial entities like Elsevier in the journal licensing space could cause the same problems in the Open Access and institutional repositories space, which have heretofore been dominated by Open Source, non-commercial solutions, or mission-aligned commercial operators like bepress.
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7. I just wanted to take a moment here to say that TDL stands aligned with SPARC and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories, who have voiced some of those concerns, as well as the need – now more than ever – for community-based infrastructure to support access to scholarly work.
As a provider of community-based infrastructure – using open source platforms like DSpace, Dataverse, and DuraCloud and embedded in the regional, national, and international communities we serve – Texas Digital Library has long been committed to enabling researchers and academic institutions to to -- as this SPARC press release puts it -- “take back control of the research enterprise to ensure that it functions in a manner that has the public good at its center.”
We are fully committed to providing open-source tools that put the academic research institution, the researcher, and the public good at the center of our work; and we seek and support partners like Chronopolis, DuraSpace and others that share that mission.
Heather Joseph at SPARC is leading a charge to convene and galvanize the Open Access repository community to collective action around the support of community-based solutions, and we will support and participate in those efforts. And I just want to say too that TDL members can be proud of their support of these community-based endeavors through their participation in TDL as well as individual institutional efforts that are supporting open source library communities.
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8. Survey on DL Content Reuse
TDL members are invited to participate in a research study conducted by members of a sub-working group of the DLF Assessment Interest Group. Take a survey that will ask respondents to identify how cultural heritage organizations currently assess digital library reuse. The survey will consist of several questions asking participants to identify barriers for reuse and to prioritize potential solutions and next steps. Access the survey now through Oct 11, 2017 at Contact Santi Thompson from UH Libraries for more info
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9. Goings on at TDL
Nick Woodward at Code4Lib (Denton, TX) Courtney Mumma at PASIG (Oxford, UK) Ryan Steans at SCSFUG Meeting (College Station, TX)
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10. Goings on at TDL
Reviewed 2017 strategies and objectives Roadmap of services Goals for 2018
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11. TDL Priority #1 for FY 18
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12. TCDL 2018 Update on the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
Eric Ames, Committee Chair, Baylor University
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13. May 15 – 17, 2018 Austin, Texas TEXAS DIGITAL LIBRARY Keynote speaker
Dr. King Davis
Research Professor
UT Austin
Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
May 15 – 17, 2018
Austin, Texas
25% off registration for TDL Members
Theme: Exploring Perspectives
Keynote: Dr. King Davis
Call for Proposals
Registration is open at tdl.org/tcdl
Register at tdl.org
Sponsored by
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14. Digital Preservation Services
Digital Preservation training opportunities
Courtney Mumma, TDL Service Manager
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15. Digipres Services
Digipres Webinar Series - 30 minutes each with open Q&A
September 29, 2pm
Overview of Digital Preservation Services at TDL​
October 6, 3pm
DuraSpace’s Heather Greer Klein on DuraCloud
November 3, 2pm
Executive Director Mary Molinaro on DPN​
November 10, 2pm
UCSD Digital Preservation Analyst Sibyl Schaefer on Chronopolis
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16. DPMW@TRINITY July 22 – 28, 2018 San Antonio, Texas MIT Libraries
Digital Preservation
Management Workshop
July 22 – 28, 2018
San Antonio, Texas
Seats are limited!
Early registration and discount for TDL Members
Registration coming soon!
Presented by Nancy McGovern
MIT Libraries
in collaboration with:
Trinity University Coates Library
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17. TDR Steering Committee
Update from the Texas Data Repository Steering Committee
Courtney Mumma, Texas Digital Library
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18. TDR Steering Committee
Assessment Working Group
Google analytics
Survey for TDR liaisons
Training and Outreach Working Group
Gathering resources
Releasing basic training videos very soon
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19. Coming Up Upcoming conferences and meetings in the TDL universe
Lea DeForest, TDL Communication Strategist
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20. Coming up tdl.org Digital Frontiers Conference ORCID Roadshow
September 21, 2017 to September 23, 2017
University of North Texas in Denton, TX
ORCID Roadshow
September 22, 2017
Perry Castañeda Library (PCL) at UT Austin - stop by and say hi!
TCAL and TDL Annual Member Board meeting
Monday, September 25, 2017 and Tuesday, September 26, 2017
AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center at UT Austin
Fedora Camp
October 16, 2017 to October 18, 2017
PCL, UT Austin
TDL member discount
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21. Questions?
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22. Thank you
Thank you for participating in this month’s TDL Member Forum.
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