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TEXAS DIGITAL LIBRARY RESEARCH INTEGRITY INTEREST GROUP Thursday, January 26, 2023 2-3pm Central Join us on Zoom Download a calendar invitation No registration required.   Identifying and Reducing Potential Sources of Bias in the Promotion and Tenure Review of University Faculty Presented by Dr. Cynthia Werner, Texas A&M University The promotion and tenure process is central to all institutions of higher education, and there is an assumption that the review process is a fair and equitable one. This presentation identifies…

QGIS Webinar Series Join the GIS Interest Group for the summer 2023 QGIS webinar series. QGIS is open-source and free GIS software available on Mac, Windows, and Linux from here: https://qgis.org/. Absolutely no prior GIS experience is required to fully participate in these webinars. Webinar #1: 3D Modeling of Library Spaces Using QGIS Presenters: Michael Shensky (UT Austin) and Katherine Strickland (UT Austin) In spring 2023 the UT Libraries worked with students in the UT Austin Master of Science in Information…

QGIS Webinar Series Join the GIS Interest Group for the summer 2023 QGIS webinar series. QGIS is open-source and free GIS software available on Mac, Windows, and Linux from here: https://qgis.org/. Absolutely no prior GIS experience is required to fully participate in these webinars. Webinar #2: Researching Your Community with QGIS Presenters: Kate McNally Carter (University of Houston) and Joshua Been (Baylor University) In this webinar, you will learn how you can use open source GIS software to map and analyze…

TEXAS DIGITAL LIBRARY RESEARCH INTEGRITY INTEREST GROUP Thursday, October 12, 2023 2-3pm Central Join us on Zoom Download a calendar invitation No registration required. Presentation by Jason Ramage, Director of Research Integrity and Compliance at the University of South Florida Ever wonder what research compliance staff do? Join us on Thursday, 12 October, to find out! Jason Ramage, Director of Research Integrity & Compliance at the University of South Florida, will begin by explaining his mission to “serve, protect, and educate.”…

Open education work is often a solitary venture in the library. When you are the solo OER librarian, or the sole librarian whose OER work is an additional duty on top of your main role, it can be especially challenging to maintain momentum for open education initiatives. In this OER @ TDL quarterly meeting, join our panel for an informal discussion on the challenges of sustaining open education initiatives in a solo role, and how we can develop strategies for…

Dr. Nancy McGovern, of Global Archivist, LLC, and a leading digital preservation instructor and expert for several decades, will share a set of guidance documents she has created for the Texas Digital Library consortium and digital preservationists. This webinar will help TDL members understand the steps they should to take to preserve a few common sets of content types, with alternative workflows at crucial decision-points along the way. At the end of the webinar, attendees will have a set a resources…

Join us for an hour of GIS learning and fun! From 3-3:30pm, Alex Marden (GIS and Geospatial data Coordinator with the UT Libraries) will lead a webinar entitled, Fundamentals and Emerging Trends of GIS Data. Finding and accessing data to use in GIS software is a common task for librarians, but GIS data is highly varied and is often challenging to work with. In this webinar, we will confront those challenges by covering the fundamentals, highlighting valuable data sources and…

Open pedagogy is becoming increasingly prevalent in institutions of higher education as a means of engaging with students as co-creators of knowledge. Given their unique expertise in open licensing and assignment planning, librarians are well positioned to provide support for open pedagogy. In this panel discussion, we will hear from three librarians about how they collaborate with faculty members to support open pedagogy assignments at their respective institutions. They will share their favorite resources and best practices that attendees can…