TDLBy: Ima Oduok, Digital Librarian
What is Digital POWRR anyway?
This was a question posed by a member of the TDL Digital Preservation Interest Group (DPIG). In a group which has expressed interest in more training opportunities, this question presented a great opportunity to share my experience of a grant-funded workshop tailored around the experiences,
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TDLBy: Ima Oduok, Digital Librarian
It’s GIS Day on Wednesday, November 15! To celebrate, we want to share a bit about a geospatial data project being worked on within the TDL community.
The Geosteer project is a Python toolkit which allows users to transform their geospatial metadata for the Aardvark schema,
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Christopher Starcher (he/him) joined TDL in October 2023 as the Vireo Product Manager, a consulting role. Christopher is Associate Librarian, Digital Resources, faculty at Texas Tech University. In his 2-year term, he will assist with coordination and growth of the Vireo Open Source Community (OSS) and software development.
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Ke’ara Hunt (she/her) joined TDL in September 2023 as the Outreach and Member Engagement Coordinator.
Where did you go to school?
I received a BS in Radio-Television-Film and BA in English at The University of Texas at Austin.
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TDLMaintenance Culture (MC) is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded program created by Myriad, a non-profit consulting organization that seeks to help smaller cultural heritage institutions preserve their collections. The focus of MC is on building a community of practice around the preservation of creative complex, born-digital objects. With several in-person skillshare and workshop events planned in major cities across the United States, MC seeks to assist creators and cultural heritage professionals (such as archivists and curators) to build off existing digital preservation knowledge and apply them to a variety of time-based media objects.
TDLIma Oduok (she/her) joined TDL in September 2022 as the Digital Librarian and ACRL Diversity Resident.
Where did you go to school?
I got my BA in French at Trinity University in San Antonio. I’m currently pursuing my MLS at UNT and graduating this December (2022).
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Check out the latest issue of TDL Update, the newsletter of the Texas Digital Library, to discover the exciting things going on at the TDL.
On Monday, September 21, the Texas Digital Library is offering several training courses on TDL services, including DSpace repository software and Online Journals.
Kristi ParkSign up now for fall training sessions with the Texas Digital Library! October courses include instruction on ETD management with Vireo and on using blogs and wikis in a scholarly environment.
Kristi ParkDue to illness, training on TDL blogs and wikis will not take place on Wednesday, August 19, as planned. The training sessions will be rescheduled for October.