MWDL

MWDL 2024 Member Meeting
2024-08-09 09:30 - 16:00 UTC | University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, 295 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, United States
MWDL, it’s been way too long!
Please join us on Friday, August 9, 2024 for a much-overdue, in-person member meeting!
We’ll get reacquainted, welcome new faces, and get caught up with all the latest around the network.
Our preliminary agenda includes:

Updates on MWDL & DPLA
Discussion of local outreach efforts
Updates from MWDL members
Birds of a Feather discussions
A special treat to celebrate our belated 20th anniversary!
Optional Marriott Library space tours (likely Special Collections & Digitization Lab)

We hope to see you in August! Registration closed Friday, July 19. Please get in touch if you still want to attend.
Parking will be provided for those driving to campus. The nearest parking is in the West Lot directly across from the Marriott Library West Entrance. Ride share services like Lyft and Uber both operate in Salt Lake City, and the Library is also accessible via public transit.

Resourcefully Assessing: Critical Approaches to Assessment Series | D-CRAFT Toolkit — assessing use & reuse of digital collections
2024-08-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Join us to learn more about D-CRAFT (Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit)! Anyone working with digital collections at galleries, libraries, archives, museums, or repositories may find this session useful. Three members of the D-CRAFT project team will share project history and introduce the toolkit.
Presenters are:

Ranti Junus, Systems Librarian, Electronic Resources, Michigan State University
Ayla Stein Kenfield, Repository Services Librarian & Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Santi Thompson, Eva Digital Research Endowed Library Professor, University of Houston

Please register here.

Resourcefully Assessing: Critical Approaches to Assessment Series | Wikimedia Metrics and Tools
2024-07-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Please join the DPLA Wikimedia Working Group (WWG) for an overview of metrics and tracking tools across Wikimedia Platforms. Together we will look at metrics and tools from across Wikimedia while offering advice for institutions currently involved in, or looking to get involved in the DPLA Wikimedia Pipeline, and related Wikipedia work and editing. The presentation will cover pipeline metrics, the Wikimedia events dashboard and using it for event/edit tracking, article assessment tools, and tools on Wikimedia Commons. Additionally, we will briefly discuss new WMF tools that are being developed. Attendees will hear from individuals and institutions with first hand experience with these tools, and will offer insight and advice on how to best utilize them for your personal or institutional editing and content goals. We will close the session with time for Q&A and discussion.
Presenters:

Jamie Flood, Senior Wikipedian and Outreach Specialist, USDA National Agricultural Library
Giovanna Fontenelle, Program Officer, Culture & Heritage, Wikimedia Foundation
Evan Robb, Digital Repository Librarian, Northwest Digital Heritage, Washington State Library

Please register here.

DPLA Open Board + Community Meeting
2024-07-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Join DPLA on Monday, July 8, for the next Open Board + Community Meeting to hear all the latest from DPLA and more about what’s coming next.
Please register here.
More on DPLA’s Board Members.

Resourcefully Assessing: Critical Approaches to Assessment Series | Quality Indicators for Open Educational Resources (OER)
2024-06-13 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Join us for our first event in the Resourcefully Assessing — Critical Approaches to Assessment series, hosted by the Outreach & Assessment working group. This series will explore a variety of assessment strategies for different resource and collection types. In this coffee chat, Joanna Schimizzi will discuss quality indicators for Open Educational Resources (OER). We’ll share example resources, rubrics, and templates that support you in finding and evaluating OER, with a focus on primary source sets. Part of the conversation will of course focus on student needs and on the opportunity to customize and localize resources to build robust sets of work.
Joanna Schimizzi is a Biology teacher in North Carolina and a Professional Learning Specialist with ISKME. While getting her Master’s in Education from Northeastern University, she became extremely interested in classroom culture and student identity. This led her to work with ISKME and OER Commons to support educators in finding Open Educational Resources (OER) so that resources can be modified and remixed to include a wider variety of perspectives and experiences. Joanna is mom to two boys and lives with her husband in a little town outside of Charlotte, NC.
Please register here.

2024 NCSS Inquiry and Teaching with Primary Sources Summer Institute
2024-06-10 08:30 - 2024-06-12 12:00 | Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
Engage in inquiry using the C3 Framework and the Library of Congress’ digital primary sources at the Boise State University in Boise, ID from June 10-12, 2024. National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) is proud to invite methods professors, doctoral students, and classroom teachers to a special free professional learning institute this summer!
The NCSS Inquiry and Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Summer Institute brings together social studies methods professors, pre-service, and in-service teachers to pilot chapters from the newly released set of methods texts, Teaching with Primary Sources to Prepare Students for College, Career, and Civic Life. Participants will develop model curriculum inquiries that can be adapted for their methods courses and classroom curriculum using these free texts and other Library of Congress resources.
Texts developed as part of the NCSS TPS project, Inquiry and Teaching to Prepare for Career, College, and Civic Life, generously supported by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant.
Event sponsored in part through a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program and the Western Region program, coordinated by Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver) in support of Inquiry and Teaching to Prepare for Career, College, and Civic Life. *$100 stipends will be awarded to the first 50 registrants. All social studies educators are welcome to attend.
All Times Mountain
Registration here. Travel and hotel are not included in registration. Participants are responsible for making their own travel and hotel arrangements.

Reconciling Metadata with OpenRefine
2024-06-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Does your metadata contain values that don’t align with controlled vocabularies commonly used in the GLAM sector? Learn how to reconcile metadata with OpenRefine, a popular data cleaning tool that can help you with metadata prep for DPLA. The Outreach & Assessment and Metadata Working Groups invite you to join this session, which builds upon February’s Introduction to OpenRefine presentation. Attendees will:
– Understand the basics of reconciliation with OpenRefine
– See examples of reconciliation with commonly used vocabularies (such as the Art & Architecture Thesaurus™)
– Get pointers on untangling data, such as removing duplicate values
This meeting will be led by Helen Baer, Digital Projects Librarian at Colorado State University, a member of the Plains to Peaks Collective. No software pre-installation will be required by participants. Please feel free to reach out to Helen if you have specific use cases or controlled vocabularies you’d like her to focus on at this event.
Please register at the link below!

Conference of Intermountain Archivists (CIMA) 2024 Conference
2024-05-29 - 2024-06-01 | University of Nevada, Reno Libraries – Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center, 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV, 89557, United States
The 2024 Annual Conference will be held from May 29 to June 1, 2024 in Reno, Nevada, at the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.
MWDL is a CIMA 2024 Conference sponsor!
Registration Schedule:

March 18, 2024: Registration opens (in-person and virtual)
April 29, 2024: Early-bird registration ends (in-person only)
May 13, 2024: Registration closes for in-person and reception attendees only
May 20, 2024: Registration closes for virtual attendees

SAA Pre-Conference Workshop
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Register for the SAA Pre-Conference Workshop, “Preserving Digital Archives,” through the SAA Website. Pre-conference workshop is not included in CIMA registration.

Introduction to Standardized Rights Statements
2024-05-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Curious about standardized rights statements? Standardized rights statements help increase access and reuse of your items. By providing rights in the form of a machine-readable URI, users can facet on rights in the DPLA interface and open access items can be shared by DPLA to Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn how to apply them to your digital collection?
Join the DPLA Rights Statements Working Group for an introduction to standardized rights statements. RightsStatements.org statements are a simple, standardized system of labels that more clearly communicate the copyright and re-use status of digital objects to the public. Adding these labels to your digital collections will improve usability and access for users. Presenters for this webinar will include members of the DPLA Rights Statements Working Group, many of whom are currently implementing rights statements for the collections they manage. They will share their expertise and experiences, as well as a wide range of resources for implementation.
Register here.

MWDL Governing Body Spring 2024 Meeting
2024-05-21 10:30 - 12:00
The MWDL Governing Body will hold its semi-annual meeting on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 from 10:30-12 (Mountain).

Practical Approaches to Reparative Description Workshop Series: Special Projects in Reparative and Inclusive Description
2024-05-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
In this final workshop of the series, presenters will share how they approached description projects for special collections at their universities. Projects include: reparative description for Nazi publications identified in the collection, expanding access to electronic agricultural extension reports through non-English language subject headings, and applying content statements and strategies for graphic images/thumbnails.
Presenters

Julie Moore, Special Collections Catalog Librarian, Fresno State University. Julie has been a catalog librarian in a variety of libraries and states for over 30 years. She is especially well-known for cataloging special formats (3-dimensional objects, in particular.) Her current research interest is in critical/inclusive/ethical/reparative cataloging. She was a Task Force member for OLAC Best Practices for Cataloging DVD-Video and Blu-ray Discs, Objects, Streaming Media, and Video Games and wrote a chapter in the upcoming publication, Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches (2024). Julie is the recipient of the Margaret Mann Citation (2020) and the OLAC Nancy B. Olson Award (2010).
Vance Woods, Lead Cataloger, Cataloging and Government Documents Unit, Oregon State University Libraries and Press. Vance has a Master’s degree in church-state studies from Baylor University in Texas, with a focus on medieval Celtic history in the British Isles. He started as a special collections cataloger at Baylor in 2009, moving to Oregon State University in 2017 after an interim period in Argentina, where he grew up. He has extensive experience with original cataloging in many different formats, both physical and electronic, including rare and unique materials. He is an expert in languages, having worked with Baylor’s Keston Collection, comprised of materials from and about the former Soviet Union in a wide variety of languages, including several Cyrillic-based languages, and is fascinated by linguistics in the bibliographic field; it’s a passion he continues to develop at Oregon State. He has published in both scholarly and popular contexts, including a photographic history of Bates County, Missouri, his family’s ancestral home.
Devon Murphy, The University of Texas at Austin. Devon Murphy (they/them) is a metadata and digital collections professional, currently working as the Metadata Analyst at the University of Texas at Austin. In this role, Murphy oversees standards, policies, and data models for the Libraries’ holdings. Murphy previously worked as the Metadata Librarian for Latin American Resources and as the TARO Metadata Analyst at UT Austin, and as a Getty Graduate Intern (2019-2020), creating Getty Vocabulary records and policies. They received dual masters degrees in Art History and Information Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2019), examining information systems in art museums, including cataloging of Cherokee baskets by Native and non-Native institutions.
Karina Sánchez, The University of Texas at Austin. Karina Sánchez (she/her) serves as the Scholars Lab Librarian at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is committed to advancing digital scholarship research through the innovative digital scholarship center, Scholars Lab. In her previous role as a Diversity Resident Librarian at UT Austin, she devoted time to developing workflows to improve the process of displaying and managing harmful content in libraries and special collections.

Please register here.

Practical Approaches to Reparative Description Workshop Series: Local Contexts: Tools for Supporting Indigenous Rights and Interests in Collections
2024-04-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Every Indigenous community has cultural and biological knowledge within educational systems, archives, libraries, and museums that they do not own, do not control, and cannot govern circulation over. Local Contexts is a global nonprofit organization that was founded to address the needs of Indigenous communities and local organizations who wanted a practical method to deal with the range of intellectual property issues that arise in relation to managing cultural heritage materials. The Local Contexts Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels and Notices are tools for Indigenous communities and collections- and research-based institutions to support Indigenous cultural authority and data sovereignty. In this webinar, which is being hosted by the DPLA Rights Statements Working Group, the Local Contexts team will introduce the Labels and Notices and how they can be used to support Indigenous rights and interests in collections and data.
Presenters

Dr. Stephany RunningHawk Johnson is a Citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and the Local Contexts Founding Executive Director. Stephany was previously an Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education at Washington State University. Her scholarship examines the limitations and possibilities of decolonizing approaches to science education in schools, and explores how changes in educational policy and practice that center Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing have a positive impact.
Corrie Roe is the Local Contexts Director of Outreach and Strategy. In her role, Corrie supports Indigenous communities, institutions, and researchers to learn about and adopt the Local Contexts system. Corrie is a settler living on Paugussett and Wappinger Homelands with a background in anthropology and museum studies.
Emily Santhanam is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and the Local Contexts Outreach Coordinator (Americas). Within this role, Emily supports multifaceted outreach efforts by cultivating and sustaining Local Contexts’ network of Indigenous communities, institutions, and researchers. Prior to her involvement with Local Contexts, Emily worked in multiple curatorial and research capacities for cultural organizations and museums across the country.

Please register here.

DPLA Open Board + Community Meeting
2024-04-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Join DPLA on Monday, April 22, for their next Open Board + Community Meeting to hear all the latest from DPLA and more about what’s coming next.

Practical Approaches to Reparative Description Workshop Series: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Metadata
2024-04-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
This webinar is hosted by DPLA’s Metadata Working Group:
Capturing information about gender and sexuality in descriptive metadata often surfaces questions and unique considerations about how to effectively maximize exposure of diverse collections without mislabeling or putting members of vulnerable communities at increased risk. At this presentation, attendees will hear a variety of perspectives on strategies for how to approach the capture of this information, as well as how to implement existing resources to help enhance collection metadata.
Presenters:

As University of Washington’s Special Collections Digital Collections Curator, Ann Lally is involved in the processing and arrangement of incoming digital materials as well as curation and quality assurance of the web archiving program. Ann has been working at the UW with digital projects as a project manager, consultant, and active participant since 2003. Ann has been an active participant in local and regional metadata and usability initiatives. Before coming to the UW, Ann worked as the Associate Director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Bri Watson (@brimwats) is a disabled, white, queer & nonbinary settler living in Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish. They are currently a Vanier Scholar at University of British Columbia’s iSchool focusing on histories of information and the practice of equitable cataloging in libraries, archives, museums, and special collections. Watson is the Archivist-Historian of the American Psychological Association’s Consensual Nonmonogamy Committee (div44cnm.org) and the Haslam Collection on Polyamory at the Kinsey Institute. They serve on the editorial board of Homosaurus (homosaurus.org), an international linked data vocabulary for queer terminology.
Michael L. Stewart (they/them) is a Metadata Librarian at the University of Delaware and the Metadata Specialist for the NJ/DE Digital Collective, a regional hub of DPLA. They currently serve as the chair of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging’s (PCC) Task Group on Gender (TGOG), as well as in a liaison role from this group to the PCC’s Task Group on Privacy in Name Authority Records.

Please register here.

National Council on Public History | Utah Historical Society Joint Conference
2024-04-11 08:00 - 2024-04-13 17:00
The National Council on Public History (NCPH) and Utah Historical Society (UHS) will hold their joint conference April 11-13, 2024! This year’s theme is Historical Urgency.
The preliminary program is available and early-bird registration runs through February 28, 2024.

Crowdsourcing the Archives: An Introduction to the National Archives Citizen Archivist Program
2024-03-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
In this presentation, National Archives Catalog Community Managers Nancy Sullivan and Suzanne Isaacs will introduce the National Archives’ Citizen Archivist program. They will demonstrate how volunteers can transcribe, tag, and comment on records in the National Archives Catalog. Nancy and Suzanne will highlight the Revolutionary War Pension File Project, a multi-year partnership project with the National Park Service.
Suzanne Isaacs is a Community Manager for the National Archives Catalog catalog.archives.gov, where she works to manage, build and grow the community of users surrounding records and information in our Catalog through crowdsourcing missions archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions. She holds a B.A. in American History and an M.L.S. in Archives from the University of Maryland. In over 20 years with NARA she headed a custodial unit, developed the Digital Vaults and DocsTeach, and led efforts for item level descriptions of NARA’s most used records.
Nancy Sullivan is also a Community Manager for the National Archives Catalog. She earned her M.A. in History and an M.S.L.I.S. at Syracuse University. She began her archives career at NARA where she worked on the old Archives Research Catalog. She worked as archivist at the Historical Society of Montgomery County (PA) and the Institute for Advanced Study before returning to NARA to work on the Citizen Archivist program.
Please register here.

Digital Humanities Utah Symposium (DHU8)
2024-02-23 - 2024-02-24 | University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, 295 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, United States
The 8th Digital Humanities Utah Symposium (DHU8) will be held on February 23 & 24, 2024 at The University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library.
DHU8 welcomes humanities scholars from across the Intermountain West and beyond. We especially invite early career scholars, graduate students, newcomers to the digital humanities (DH), and members of traditionally underrepresented groups to join us.
Register now!
DHU8 Organizing Committee:
Kaylee Alexander (chair), Rebekah Cummings, Anna Neatrour, Elizabeth Callaway, Brandon Render, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis, Nathan Wainstein, Meekyung MacMurdie, Aniello de Santo, and Mike Bigler
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that this land, which is named for the Ute Tribe, is the traditional and ancestral homeland of the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute, and Ute Tribes. The University of Utah recognizes and respects the enduring relationship that exists between many Indigenous peoples and their traditional homelands. We respect the sovereign relationship between tribes, states, and the federal government, and we affirm the University of Utah’s commitment to a partnership with Native Nations and Urban Indian communities through research, education, and community outreach activities.

DPLA Working Groups OpenRefine Webinar
2024-02-07 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Join the DPLA Metadata and Outreach & Assessment Working Groups on Wednesday, February 7 for a 1-hour session on everyone’s favorite metadata tool: OpenRefine!
Helen Baer (Digital Projects Librarian, Colorado State University Libraries) will present and attendees will:

understand how OpenRefine works, including technical setup
what OpenRefine is really good at (and not good at!)
Review a few DPLA-specific use cases for missing/incomplete metadata, possibly reconciliation too

Note: This will be a presentation, not a workshop. No pre-installation needed!
Register here.

D-CRAFT Toolkit Webinar
2023-12-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Introduction
Join us to learn more about D-CRAFT (Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit)! Anyone working with digital collections at galleries, libraries, archives, museums, or repositories may find this session useful.
Three members of the D-CRAFT project team will share project history and introduce the toolkit.
Our presenters are:

Santi Thompson (University of Houston)
Ayla Stein (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Liz Woolcott (Utah State University)

Details
Time: Dec 14, 2023 3:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Zoom Meeting: https://utah.zoom.us/j/94076916741
Meeting ID: 940 7691 6741
Passcode: [REDACTED]

DPLA Coffee Chat: Metadata Best Practices Report
2023-11-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
In 2022-2023, the DPLA Metadata Working Group analyzed metadata guidelines and best practices across hubs, summarizing them in the Metadata Best Practices Report. The Report included a list of recommendations, which was then distributed to the hubs network for their input to help inform the direction of our future work. Please join us to discuss the Report and how we might use the findings to improve metadata practices across DPLA hubs.
Please register here.

2023 DLF Forum, Learn@DLF, and NDSA’s Digital Preservation
2023-11-12 - 2023-11-16 | St. Louis, Missouri
The DLF Forum, Learn@DLF, and NDSA’s Digital Preservation are multi-day experiences for learning, networking, and skill-building seeking to inspire and connect a community of digital library, museum, archives, and cultural heritage practitioners.
Conference program now available.
Early bird registration ends August 15.

Fall 2023 MWDL Governing Body Meeting
2023-11-03
The MWDL Governing Body (current roster) will meet virtually on Friday, November 3 at 10 AM Mountain/9 AM Pacific.
The meeting agenda includes:

Welcome new members (Emily, All)
New Governing Body Guidelines review (Emily)
Director update on activities (Teresa)
GB decides which folks will roll off in Member Repo, Collection Partner seats in FY24-FY25 service year (Teresa, All)
Reform Outreach Working Group– GB create charge (Teresa, All)
Next meeting time, Spring 2024 (Emily, All)

CFP: Digital Humanities Utah DHU8
2023-11-01 23:30
Call for Papers

The Digital Humanities Utah Executive Committee invites proposals for presentations at DHU8 (February 23–24, 2024). DHU8 will take place in person only at Marriott Library, University of Utah. Proposals are due by November 1, 2023.
Submit a Proposal
General CFP
DHU invites submissions for 15-minute panel presentations, complete panels, roundtable discussions, or hands-on workshops related to any aspect of Digital Humanities research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Computational and digital approaches to humanistic research (e.g., distant reading/viewing)
Humanistic examinations of the computational and the digital (e.g., video games, social media, NFTs, etc.)
DH pedagogy
Digital librarianship
DH tools and infrastructures
Physical computing
Digital publishing
Public scholarship
AI tools and methods

Ethical AI Session
Included in DHU8, we will be hosting a special session on Ethical Artificial Intelligence on Friday morning (Feb. 23 from 9am to 12pm).
Six 15-minute panel presentations will be selected from the general CFP to fill two featured panels. If selected, we request that the presenter also lead a small breakout session on AI in the final hour of the program. If you would like to have your presentation considered for inclusion in the Ethical AI special session, please indicate this on your submission form.
Note: Only 15-minute panel presentations will be considered for this session (no complete panels, roundtables, or hands-on workshops). Proposals not selected for the Ethical AI session, will still be considered for the general CFP.

Teaching and Learning with DPLA Resources
2023-10-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Are you “hungry” for resources that will inspire rich discussion in your classes? Join the DPLA Outreach & Assessment Working Group and Joanna to explore the Primary Source Sets from DPLA, including this example – “Feeding the Hungry with Food Stamp Programs.” In this session, we’ll chat about the structure of the existing Primary Source Sets and use framing questions to see what might be missing. Joanna will provide an OER Commons template for you to curate additional resources and provide feedback on what else could enrich these sets. Bring your appetite because we’ll be providing a lot to consume.
Joanna Schimizzi is a Biology teacher in North Carolina and a Professional Learning Specialist with ISKME. While getting her Master’s in Education from Northeastern University, she became extremely interested in classroom culture and student identity. This led her to work with ISKME and OER Commons to support educators in finding Open Educational Resources (OER) so that resources can be modified and remixed to include a wider variety of perspectives and experiences. Joanna is mom to two boys and lives with her husband in a little town outside of Charlotte, NC.
Please register here.

DPLA Coffee Chat: A Wikimedia Case Study: Columbus Metropolitan Library and Ohio Digital Network
2023-10-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
In this DPLA Network Coffee Chat, representatives from the Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML), Ohio Digital Network, and DPLA will discuss their recent collaboration to share over 350,000 images from CML’s digital collections to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia in July. In the first two months, these images received over 3 million page views in Wikimedia’s sites. The project relied upon Ohio Digital Network aggregation and Digital Public Library of America’s pipeline to Wikimedia Commons and was initiated after an inquiry from an interested member of the library’s community. This is a new, developing project, and we’ll discuss how it has unfolded from inception to final execution, to give others a sense of what participation in DPLA’s Wikimedia project is like.
In the second hour, attendees are invited to stay for an optional guided group editing session with Dominic Byrd-McDevitt, DPLA’s Data & Partnerships Strategist, to add images, captions, and depicts statements to Wikipedia. In this interactive workshop, you’ll be exposed to Wikipedia editing skills in a relaxed setting (no experience necessary!) while contributing to the impact of CML’s project!
Please register here.

DPLA Curation Task Force Coffee Chat
2023-10-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Join the newly-formed DPLA Hub Network Curation Task Force for an informal chat about their work, including creating best practice guidelines for creating digital exhibits.

DPLA Open Board + Community Meeting
2023-10-16 12:00 - 13:00
DPLA’s next Open Board + Community meeting, which will include an update on their strategic visioning process, will be held on Monday, October 16, at 2p ET.
Please register here.

2023 UALC Professional Development Retreat
2023-10-13 09:00 - 17:00 | University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, 295 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, United States
2023 Theme: Checking In: Responding To & Inspiring Change
Over the last few years, the world has changed in big ways. Sometimes we have been at the forefront, fighting for change, but other times we’ve been carried in the wake of changes we could not control.
COVID is only part of the picture: we’ve also been through drought, flooding, and fire, cultural upheaval, and a revolution in how we work, teach, and learn.
With this in mind, we wanted to take the opportunity to check in with each other personally and professionally, and speak to the issues that we, and our libraries, are facing.
Registration

Is free for librarians at UALC member libraries
Breakfast, lunch, and snacks are included with your in-person registration
This is a hybrid event, with both in-person and virtual participation available
Registration for in person attendance will close on September 15, 2023
Registration for virtual attendance will be available through October 11, 2023

2023 Equity Summit: In Pursuit of Equity: Book-Banning and Censorship
2023-10-07 09:00 - 14:00
Book bans in schools and libraries are on the rise. Last school year, more than 850 individual titles were impacted by censorship efforts of local groups and state decision-makers. How can educators and students navigate censorship in their communities?
National Council for History Education (NCHE) and National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) are uniting for a fourth virtual Equity Summit, in support of our history and social studies educators and students, with a focus on book-banning and censorship. Join us for a day of virtual learning, featuring classroom teachers, media specialists, and education organizations, including a keynote by Dr. Yohuru Williams, Professor of History and Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas.
The event is free, but registration is required. Educators from all levels are welcome to attend.
Register here.

Collaborating for Access: Librarians and Independent Publishers
2023-10-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
What do librarians REALLY want from publishers, and how can smaller and independent publishers create a better ecosystem? In our sixth Collaborating for Access webinar, COSLA, DPLA, and ReadersFirst are partnering with the Independent Publisher Caucus, to bring together librarians and smaller and independent publishers to explore how they can work together to provide greater access for patrons. Topics will include: Opportunities for independent publishers in the library market; licensing options that are most attractive to libraries; and ways that libraries and independent publishers can work together to mutual benefit.
Please register here.
