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OER Ambassadors Meeting
Join TDL for our monthly OER Ambassadors Meeting! If you are interested in joining please visit our OER Ambassadors page here. Texas Digital Library is expanding our services to include support for Open Educational Resources (OER). Driven by initiatives to increase the adoption of OER from across our consortium of academic libraries, TDL is responding to the needs of our members as well as the needs of Texas higher education students to meet their scholarly and financial challenges.
Find out more »OER @ TDL: Quarterly Meeting for OER Practitioners
OER @ TDL Quarterly Meeting for Open Education Practitioners Quarterly meetings on the first Wednesday of the month: March, June, September, December 11am - 12:30pm Central Presentation topic: How is your OER program structured? Presenters: Amanda Zerangue, Manager of Digital Services and Scholarly Communication Librarian at Texas Woman's University, and Ashley Morrison, Tocker Open Education Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin. Question for discussion: Open discussion around strategies for engaging your subject librarians as part of The OER Machine in…
Find out more »TDL Hangout
Join Texas Digital Library staff and fellow TDL members for a bi-weekly hangout session. No agenda and no registration or RSVP required. Come as you are! Pets and family members are welcome to stop by. Download recurring calendar invites for the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays.
Find out more »Open Texas 2021
REGISTRATION IS FREE. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR OPEN TEXAS. The first annual Open Texas conference convenes librarians, faculty, administrators, and other open education practitioners and advocates in Texas. This year’s conference will be fully online and hosted by Houston Community College and the University of Houston-Downtown. EVENT DETAILS Dates: March 11-12, 2021 Location: Online Hosts: Houston Community College, the Houston Area OER Consortium, and the University of Houston-Downtown (visit the Open Texas 2021 page on UHD’s website). Registration is free. Click here to register. Don’t…
Find out more »March Member Forum
The Texas Digital Library invites members to attend the TDL Forum, a monthly meeting in which members can hear a brief presentation about the activities of the TDL staff and participate in a question-and-answer period. If you have questions about the TDL Forum, you may send them to info@tdl.org. TDL Forums occur the third Wednesday of every month from 10:30am to 11:00am CST. Download a calendar invitation here (.ics file). Join the TDL Forum here. A Zoom account is required to join. Click here to create…
Find out more »GIS Interest Group Meeting
Description TDL’s GIS Interest Group (GISIG) seeks to develop a Community of Practice around geographic information systems (GIS) and become a source of expertise for all Texas Digital Library consortium members and partners. Meetings The GISIG meets monthly on the third Wednesday of the month from 4:15pm-5:15pm CST. Download calendar invite here. How to join Click to join our GISIG email list to receive updates and meeting invitations: https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/info/tdl-gis
Find out more »Striving for FAIR Geospatial Data
Registration is required. Please register here. Nathaniel Dede-Bamfo (Texas State University), Jessica Trelogan (University of Texas at Austin), John Watts (Texas A & M University) Geospatial data are a valuable product of research with potential for sharing and reuse that can be especially powerful for maximizing resources and accelerating the pace of scientific discovery. However, the complex structures, myriad formats, and unique dependencies of GIS technologies, data, and metadata can create barriers to making them findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable…
Find out more »TDL Hangout
Join Texas Digital Library staff and fellow TDL members for a bi-weekly hangout session. No agenda and no registration or RSVP required. Come as you are! Pets and family members are welcome to stop by. Download recurring calendar invites for the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays.
Find out more »TDL Leadership Academy Webinar #2 – Navigating the Field of Academic Libraries
Navigating the Field of Academic Libraries March 25, 2021 1-2PM CST | Register here Please join Texas Digital Library in welcoming our presenters: Phyllis Earles, University Archivist for Prairie View A&M University Peace Ossom-Williamson, Director of Research Data Services and a health sciences liaison at the University of Texas at Arlington Catherine Rudowsky, PhD, Dean of Libraries at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. Presenters will share their experience interrogating the hierarchy, politics, and bureaucracy attendant to working in academic…
Find out more »DSpace User Group Meeting
Join us for our monthly DSpace User Group Meeting. Purpose of the group: The TDL DSpace Users Group works to create an active community among DSpace users that: facilitates mutual support for DSpace use and repository management; identifies areas of work that could be taken on by member working groups or by TDL staff; connects the TDL DSpace user community to the larger open source DSpace community in North America. Who can join: Any users of DSpace can join the users group,…
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