MWDL

DPLA at ALA: Open Board + Community Meeting
2023-06-24
Saturday, June 24, at 4p CT
McCormick Place, W179a, ALA Annual Conference – Chicago
As Digital Public Library of America approaches its 10th anniversary, join executive director John Bracken, DPLA board chair Felton Thomas and the DPLA Board of Directors for an Open Board + Community Meeting. The meeting will include updates on DPLA’s major projects, including our national Hubs network, our Wikimedia work expanding access to and discoverability of cultural heritage collections, and our efforts to build flexible ebook licensing models through Palace Marketplace, part of The Palace Project, as well as a look ahead at how DPLA is preparing to meet the challenges of the next 10 years.

DPLA Network Coffee Chat: Collaboration, Community and Digital Equity
2023-06-15 11:00 - 12:00 UTC
In this DPLA Network Coffee Chat, we’ll hear from representatives from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries about their archival collection, The Milwaukee Women’s Art Library, and their collaboration on a new community ambassador position to help bridge the gap between institutional support and grassroots community-led collection-building. This is one of the first projects to be supported by DPLA’s Digital Equity Project. Speakers will include Celeste Contreras, Ann Hanlon, and Derek Webb. DPLA Network Coffee Chats are opportunities to engage in casual conversation on topics of interest to our network; they are held meeting style instead of webinar style to encourage participation and sharing.
Please register here.

DPLA Book Talk: Burning the Books, with author Richard Ovenden
2023-06-05 11:00 - 12:00
Join us on June 5 at 1p ET for a book talk with author Richard Ovenden, director of the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, about his book, Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge.
Please register here.
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction―and surprising survival―of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia.
Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point.
Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts―political, religious, and cultural―and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process.
More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.

MWDL Governing Body Meeting
2023-05-16 14:00 - 15:30
MWDL’s Governing Body will hold its semi-annual meeting on Tuesday, May 16.

DPLA Coffee Chat: Rights Here, Rights Now
2023-05-15 11:00 - 12:00
The DPLA Outreach and Assessment Working Group invites all network members to attend this casual “coffee chat” conversation with copyright experts about how to get your collections ready for DPLA. Bring all your questions and concerns around copyright! We will have themed breakout rooms with each copyright expert to talk through your complicated digital items. Topics will include: reassessing complicated rights cases; mixed/unknown rights issues; thorny copyright issues (ethical, etc.); and dealing with challenges and developing processes/plans of actions (takedown policies/requests). There will also be an opportunity for attendees to bring their ideas for issues to discuss. DPLA Network Coffee Chats are held “meeting style” rather than “webinar style” to encourage casual conversation and sharing. Our experts will include: Greg Cram (New York Public Library), Gabe Galson (Temple University), Cindy Kristof (Kent State University) and Nancy Sims (University of Minnesota).
Please register here.

DPLA Town Hall
2023-05-04 13:00 - 14:00
DPLA Network members are invited to attend this Town Hall Meeting for a conversation about DPLA’s upcoming work.
Please note this meeting will replace the previously scheduled DPLA Advisory Council Meeting at the same time.
Please register here.

Meeting - Spring 2021
2021-04-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
Summary:
Mountain West Digital Library hosted an all-hubs meeting virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. We heard updates from MWDL staff, taskforces, and members on local activities. The meeting concluded with a panel discussion on how MWDL libraries and archives continue to adapt work during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The meeting was not recorded, but the slide deck can be viewed online.

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