Archive for the ‘TDL Member news’ Category

TDL welcomes new member Texas A&M International

Monday, October 10th, 2011

The Texas Digital Library is pleased to welcome Texas A&M International University as the newest member of the TDL consortium.

Member Story: TDL-hosted Galveston Bay Bibliography disseminates essential information for researchers

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

TDL member Texas A&M Galveston works to safeguard the future of Galveston Bay through the Galveston Bay Information Center (GBIC), a key piece of which is a TDL-hosted DSpace repository.

Member Story: UT Southwestern Medical Center Library moves ETDs to DSpace

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

Using TDL services, member institution UT Southwestern Medical Center Library is upgrading its electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) program to streamline submission and management and make theses and dissertations more visible to the worldwide scholarly community.

Member Story: Texas A&M Libraries chronicles African-American farm life in DSpace collection

Friday, October 15th, 2010

TDL founding member Texas A&M Libraries has published an exciting set of images in its institutional repository dealing with African-American farming life in Texas during the middle of the last century.

Open Access Week activities at Texas A&M

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Texas A&M University Libraries has released a schedule of activities for Open Access Week, which will take place October 18-24.

UH Digital Library video: UH student life in the 1950s

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

The University of Houston Digital Library has created a video using digitized yearbook images and audio from a 45 rpm record that accompanied the 1954-55 yearbook.

Texas A&M Libraries catalogs 2,300+ ETDs

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

TDL member Texas A&M University Libraries recently completed a project to catalog an accumulated backlog of some 2,300 electronic theses and dissertations and to make them available in Texas A&M’s DSpace repository. The team that worked on the cataloging project included Holly Mercer (Head of Digital Services and Scholarly Communications), Michael Bolton (Director of Digital [...]

Video available from Open Access Symposium at UNT

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

The University of North Texas has mad available videos of presentations from its Open Access Symposium, held May 18, 2010.

University of Houston adds new collection to digital library

Monday, June 21st, 2010

The University of Houston has added a new collection to their digital library: the Gladys Ewing Debutante Scrapbook.

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research featured on Ars Technica

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

TDL-hosted electronic journal The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR) was featured yesterday on Ars Technica, a technology news and information website, in a feature on growing academic interest in the sociology of virtual communities.