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National Council on Public History 2025: Call for Posters
2024-08-20 08:00 - 2024-10-10 17:00 UTC
The Call for Posters for NCPH’s 2025 annual meeting in Montréal, Canada is now open! Submit a poster for consideration by Thursday, October 10.
The NCPH poster session is a two-hour block of time at the annual meeting where presenters can share their projects with attendees in the form of a poster. It offers an alternative for presenters eager to share their work through one-on-one discussion, can be especially useful for works-in-progress, and may be a particularly appropriate format for presentations where visual or material evidence represents a central component of the project. The poster session will be held on Thursday, March 27, from 5:00-7:00 pm at le Centre Sheraton hotel in Montréal.

Virtual DLF Forum registration now open!
2024-08-20 08:00 - 2024-10-15 17:00 | Zoom
The Virtual DLF Forum is being held October 22-23, 2024 via Zoom! Registration is open now until October 15 or until capacity is reached.
More information can be found on DLF’s conference website.

August DPLA Harvest
2024-08-27 - 2024-08-31
MWDL will have its quarterly metadata harvest by DPLA in the final week of August. Harvests occur regularly in February, May, August and November.
Please let us know if you would like any collections added by submitting this form.

Marriott Library Fall Fest
2024-09-05 10:30 - 13:00 | University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, 295 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, United States
Come visit MWDL at the Digital Library Services table at Marriott Library’s annual Fall Fest!

Join us on level 3 for a party to welcome you to the Marriott Library with free food and prizes.

BCMIG Fall 2024 Virtual Program: Conceptual Models in Digital Collections
2024-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Please join ALA CORE’s Bibliographic Conceptual Models Interest Group (BCMIG) on Friday, September 20, 2024 at 12pm MT/11AM PT for the next virtual learning session. Our theme will be conceptual modeling and digital collections. The session will consist of two presentations (see details below), followed by Q&A.
Registration: https://ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcemoqjwsE9KQnuXAfckzvyjp8JTm5Boc
Round Pegs in Square Holes: Metadata Application Profiles in Large-Scale Metadata Aggregation
Teresa K. Hebron, Mountain West Digital Library
Abstract: Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) was founded in 2001 and offers a public search portal supporting discovery of over a million items from digitized historical collections throughout the Mountain West. Aggregation necessitates a metadata application profile (MAP) to ensure metadata consistency and interoperability from the member network of libraries, archives, and community history organizations. Unique issues arise in combining metadata from diverse digital repository platforms and aggregation tech stacks introduce further constraints. Upstream aggregation of metadata in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) also influences local and regional modeling decisions. This presentation will briefly trace the history of MWDL’s MAPs, focusing primarily on decisions and changes made in the most recent version published in early 2020.
Bio: Teresa K. Hebron is the current Program Director of Mountain West Digital Library (based at University of Utah, Salt Lake City). She joined MWDL in 2018 as Digital Metadata Librarian with a deep background in project management and technical support for integrated library systems. Her research focuses on metadata in large-scale aggregation projects, data visualization, and librarian employment patterns.
Metadata Models for Research: Developing an Application Profile for the OSF
Gretchen Gueguen, Center for Open Science
Abstract: This presentation will cover the development of an application profile for the Open Science Framework (OSF), a diverse repository and collaboration tool geared for research. The platform was originally launched in 2012 and has added major new digital object models and workflows without a centralized metadata model. In 2022 and 2023, staff endeavored to create a model that would both accommodate past decisions and future growth, while retaining the unique nature of the platform which is organized around research projects, rather than the individual digital objects that are the output of research. Using DataCite and Dublin Core as pillars, the new model is designed for an RDF implementation, utilizing linked data and semantic web concepts to power a new search API and interface for OSF.
Bio: Gretchen Gueguen is an archivist and librarian specializing in digital libraries and technology. She currently works at the Center for Open Science on the Open Science Framework (OSF) and is an adjunct professor for the PennWest – Clarion University Department of Information and Library Science. Gretchen has managed metadata services, digitization, and repository development at several universities including the University of Maryland, East Carolina University, and the University of Virginia, as well as part of the Digital Public Library of America. She currently works with an international network of academic institutions and other research organizations as part of the OSF Institutions Membership Program.
Best regards,
BCMIG Co-Chairs: Emily Baldoni, Benjamin Riesenberg
BCMIG Co-Vice-Chairs: Irma Fraticelli, Xiying Mi

LD4 2024 Conference: Building Community for Linked Open Data
2024-10-07 - 2024-10-11 | Zoom
About the conference
Join us to learn concrete ways that linked data benefits GLAM institutions, and discover pathways to participation in linked data. Whether you have already implemented linked data in your work or are just getting started, you will leave with a better understanding of linked data, how it can be used, and what you can do to get started. Continue growing established linked data initiatives with insights from experienced practitioners. By bringing together a broad range of perspectives, and centering diversity, equity, inclusion, and ethics in our discussions, we will continue fostering a community of practice for linked data in libraries.
Register via Sched: https://2024ld4.sched.com/

Data Cleaning with OpenRefine
2024-10-24 14:00 - 16:00 | University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, 295 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, United States
Interested in OpenRefine? Join Marriott Library’s own Research Data Librarians, Kaylee Alexander and Madison Golden, on October 24 for this FREE 2-hour workshop on this powerful data cleaning tool! This workshop is a part of a fall learning series by DELPHI, the University of Utah Data Exploration and Learning for Precision Health Intelligence Data Science Initiative.
Details:
What: Before you can analyze data you need to clean it. Data cleaning identifies errors and corrects formatting to create consistent data. This step must be taken with extreme care and attention because without clean data the results of analysis may be false and non-reproducible.
OpenRefine is a powerful free and open source tool for working with messy data: cleaning it and transforming it from one format into another.
This Data Carpentry workshop will teach you to use OpenRefine to clean and format data effectively and automatically track any changes that you make. Many people comment that this tool saves them literally months of work trying to make these edits by hand.
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and other researchers across campus who are interested in learning how to use OpenRefine for data cleaning. You do not need to have coding experience or any previous knowledge of OpenRefine to attend this workshop.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop onto which they can download OpenRefine. Please download OpenRefine before the workshop).
Contact: Please email andrew.george@hsc.utah.edu or rebecca.barter@hsc.utah.edu for more information.

Conference of Intermountain Archivists (CIMA) Fall Caucus 2024
2024-11-19 10:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Registration is now open for the 2024 CIMA Fall Caucus! This year, we’re celebrating the things that make us enthusiastic about archives. Connect with your colleagues and discover new ideas. The caucus will be held virtually via Zoom on Tuesday, November 19th from 10AM to 1PM MST.
Presentations should be about 30 minutes, but individuals with ideas for shorter presentations are encouraged to submit their ideas, you can team up with a friend or ask to be paired for panel discussion.
Call for submissions open through Friday, October 4!
Registration page.

MWDL Governing Body Meeting
2024-11-21 14:00 - 15:30
MWDL’s Governing Body will meet Thursday, November 21 at 2PM Mountain (1PM Pacific). Our current Governing Body membership is:

DPLA Harvest
2024-11-26 - 2024-12-01
DPLA will update MWDL’s metadata in the final week of November, 2024. This is our 4th and final ingest for the year.
Please submit any new collections by Wednesday, November 20th.

DPLA Network Council Quarterly Meeting
2024-12-05 11:00 - 12:30
DPLA’s Network Council will have its 4th and final quarterly meeting on December 5, 2024 from 11 AM to 12:30 PM (Mountain Time).

CFP: Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference, May 2025
2024-12-06
The Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and the Minnesota Digital Library Annual Meeting will be held jointly on May 6–7, 2025. It will be an in-person event held in Saint Paul, Minnesota at the Union Depot. The theme for the conference is Digital Directions: Lessons Learned and Future Pathways. Although the event is focused on the Upper Midwest, we welcome and encourage proposals and attendees from across the country.
Help us make this a great conference! Consider sharing your experience and expertise by submitting a program proposal. The planning committee has created a list of potential topics, but proposals on any topics relevant to digital collections are welcome. The deadline to submit proposals is Friday, Dec. 6, 2024.
Learn more: z.umn.edu/umdcc25.
Contact Planning Committee Co-Chairs Molly Huber (mollyh@umn.edu) and Sara Ring (ring0089@umn.edu) with any questions.

The ABC’s and 123’s of Metadata Sharing & Harvesting - Coffee Chat!
2024-12-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Whether you can tell OAI-PMH from JSON at a glance or if this is your first metadata harvesting rodeo, the DPLA Outreach & Assessment Working Group invites you to join the Metadata Harvesting Coffee Chat! We’ll get together on Thursday, December 12 at 11:00AM MT/10:00AM PT to share experiences, build community, and commiserate about various metadata sharing methods. Please come with questions and thoughts to discuss with the group. See you there!
You can read up on DPLA’s ingest system on their Github repository.
Please register here.

CFP: 2025 Spring Conference, Conference of Inter-mountain Archivists (CIMA)
2024-12-13 17:00 | Boise, ID
The Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists will hold its 2025 Annual Meeting on April 30-May 3, 2025, in Boise, Idaho.
The Program Committee invites session proposals touching on the theme “Remember, Respect, Record.” Join us as we explore how archivists preserve the records that enable us to remember the past, respect the present, and record our stories for the future.
The Program Committee encourages submissions from newer professionals, first-time presenters, and colleagues from non-academic institutions. Presenters may submit more than one proposal but may expect to present only one session or poster. The conference will be a hybrid in-person/virtual event. In-person and virtual presentation proposals will be considered.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Archival basics (we hope to build a track focusing on this) incl: Accessioning, Arrangement and description, Donor relations, Reference and access, Reappraisal
Primary source literacy
Working with the community
Working with students, interns, volunteers, etc.
Technology and the archives (AI related sessions are welcome)
Exhibits

Possible Session Types

Roundtable Discussion: at least two speakers make brief introductory remarks on a chosen theme and then lead a discussion.
Lightning Talks: multiple presentations that range from 5-10 minutes in length.
Work-in-Progress Session: two to three speakers report on projects in progress.
Standard Presentation: two to three speakers presenting on a common theme.

Session Lengths
60 minutes. Please be mindful of leaving ample time for questions and answers.
Proposal Submission
The deadline for submitting session proposals is Friday December 13, 2024, at 5:00 pm MST. Use the Call for Proposals form to submit your proposal. We have provided a Google Sheet to facilitate collaboration and session development that is available here.
A separate call for poster presentations will be made in early 2025.
Direct any questions to the Program Committee Chair at brittany.ayers@churchofjesuschrist.org

DPLA's 2025 Kickoff
2025-01-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Join DPLA as they announce new initiatives for 2025 and beyond, and share how you can get involved.
In 2025, DPLA will be rolling out new grant programs, as well as the first DPLAfest in years, and begin planning the transition of the cultural heritage work’s new home—and they will collaborate with our community to design and plan these exciting projects.
This is open to the public and all are invited to help us build the new DPLA, regardless of prior experience, institution, membership status, etc.!
Registration is open now.

Job Posting: Digital Collections & Metadata Specialist, University of Montana Library
2025-01-10 - 2025-02-03
The University of Montana in Missoula is seeking a Digital Collections and Metadata Specialist to help enhance access to materials in the Mansfield Library’s Archives and Special Collections. This is a full-time classified staff position with benefits. Minimum education is a Bachelor’s degree and two years of related work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience with or advanced knowledge of metadata creation for library and/or archival materials is required, along with other qualifications. The full position announcement is available from the University of Montana’s Job Opportunity website.
Apply by Sunday, February 2, 2025 for full consideration.

Call for Participation: New DPLA Committees
2025-01-10 - 2025-02-04
Pursuant to DPLA’s transition to its new institutional home, Free Library of Philadelphia, 2 new committees are forming and anyone in our community is welcome to serve.
Please visit this link to read more about the Grants and DPLAFest committees.

2025 Virtual Member Meeting
2025-01-29 14:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
Join us for the 2025 MWDL Virtual Member Meeting! This is a chance to get together, network, and hear what our colleagues have been working on.
We’ll meet via Zoom on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 2PM Mountain/1PM Pacific.
Agenda forthcoming!
Registration closed 1/17/2025.

Job Posting: Program Manager - Digital Operations Manager, Montana State University
2025-01-30 - 2025-03-01
Montana State University Library is currently accepting applications for Program Manager – Digital Operations Manager.
The Program Manager provides key project management for unique digital collections. This includes leading and and facilitating a cross-departmental team, acting as liaison with clients when launching projects, and staying up-to-date with digital library technologies, equipment, and techniques.
Full consideration began on 1/24/2025 but remains open until the position is filled. Full details here: Program Manager

RootsTech 2025
2025-03-06 - 2025-03-09 | Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
It’s baaaack! Discover your family’s roots at this year’s RootsTech, either in-person in downtown Salt Lake City or virtually.
Online attendance is FREE and registration is open. If you want to visit the Salt Palace, there are single and multi-day options available.
MWDL is a online exhibitor for this event!

USHRAB Grant applications - open now!
2025-03-10 - 2025-04-16
The Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board’s 2025 grant funding round is here!
Do you work in a museum, historical society, library special collections, university or other non-profit with documentary collections of historical value? The Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board (USHRAB) is awarding grants of up to $7,500 for time-limited archival projects.
Applications are due April 15. Learn more at ushrab.org

Western History Association - Award deadlines approaching!
2025-03-14 - 2025-07-01
Heads up, western US history scholars!
The Western History Association strives to be a congenial home for the study and teaching of all aspects of North American Wests, frontiers, homelands, and borderlands. Their mission is to cultivate the broadest appreciation of this diverse history.
Two of WHA’s awards have deadlines coming up fairly soon.
First, the Autry Public History Prize is awarded annually to media exhibits, public programs, or written works that contribute to a broader public reflection and appreciation of the past or serve as a model of professional public history practice in the history of the North American West. The award consists of a $1,000 prize and a certificate to the award recipient. The prize is made possible by the generous support of the Autry Museum of the American West. The deadline to submit is April 15, 2025.
The WHA Council created the Louise Pubols Public History Prize to honor Pubols’ prize-winning publications, landmark exhibitions, and extraordinary service to the WHA. In keeping with Louise’s deep commitment to public history, the Pubols Prize will support the attendance of a public historian to the WHA’s annual meeting [in Albuquerque, NM, October 15-18, 2025]. The overwhelming generosity of donations from Louise’s friends and family fully-funded this prize in the fall of 2017 in its inaugural year. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2025.
The prize will include complimentary registration, a ticket to the Awards Banquet, and $500 to offset travel expenses to this year’s WHA Conference.
You can learn more about all of WHA’s awards on their Awards overview page.

CfP: DLF Forum 2025
2025-03-18 - 2025-04-14
DLF Forum 2025 will take place in Denver, CO, November 16-19.
DLF invites proposals on all topics related to digital libraries, encompassing case studies, “fail and learn” opportunities, practical application, methods, projects, ethics, research, and learning in any area, including, but not limited to:

Digital humanities
Digital scholarship
Digital pedagogy
Digital collections and DAMS
Digitization, digital preservation, or reformatting analog to digital format(s)
Born-digital materials
Data curation
Data access
Art information
Community archives
Machine learning / artificial intelligence
Project management
Partnerships, advocacy, and outreach
Race and technology
Accessibility
Copyright
Assessment
Climate change
Open access
Library-based publishing
Future of higher education

Visit the DLF CfP site for more details. The submission deadline for all events is Monday, April 14, at 11:59pm MT.

DPLA Open Board + Community Meeting
2025-03-20 11:00 - 12:00
Want to hear what DPLA is up to these days? Join the DPLA Board of Directors for the next open community meeting, as we review the progress we made in 2024 and early 2025.
We’ll share updates from DPLA and library partners, as well as from our new Grants Committee and DPLAfest Committee. You’ll also hear about how you can be part of what’s coming next.
We hope to see you there. Register at the link provided below!

DPLA Spring Network Council Meeting
2025-04-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
DPLA’s Network Council will meet Thursday, April 3.

TPS Western Region Granting open now
2025-04-11 - 2025-11-01
School districts, universities, cultural institutions, library systems and other educational organizations are invited to apply for grants of up to $25,000 to incorporate Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) materials and methods into their existing education and professional development programs for pre and in-service K-12 teachers, librarians, community members, and students.
TPS Western Region is currently accepting proposals for 6-9 month projects completing before 5-31-26.
The deadline for proposals for 6–9-month projects is July 31, 2025. These projects must start no earlier than Sept 1, 2025, and be completed by May 31, 2026.
The deadline for proposals for 6-month projects is Oct.31, 2025. These projects must start no earlier than Dec. 1, 2025, and be completed by May 31, 2026.
TPS Regional Program also offers subgrants under the Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative, named in honor of late Congressmen John Lewis (D-GA) and Amo Houghton (R-NY). Lewis-Houghton Initiative subgrants support projects incorporating music and creative arts-based primary sources and approaches to support student learning about civics, history, and democracy at the middle and high school level. Educational organizations across the country are invited to apply for subgrants to incorporate music, visual art, theatre, poetry, and literature from the Library’s digital collections, as well as arts-based approaches, into secondary civic and history education.
Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program offers grants to a wide spectrum of organizations that plan to integrate the Library’s resources into educational programs and teaching materials. TPS regions award grants of up to $25,000 for projects designed to deliver educational programming centered on resources made available by the Library of Congress.

Quarterly MWDL Collections Roundup
2025-04-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom
Join us for our first ever Quarterly Collections Roundup! Collection managers from MWDL hubs who submitted new collections in late 2024 and early 2025 will be on hand to share more details about the most recent crop of content.
Where: Zoom
When: Monday, April 14 at 10AM Mountain/9AM Pacific
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Utah State Archives - Summer Internship Apps open!
2025-04-18 - 2025-05-02
Utah State Archives is currently accepting applications for summer 2025 internships through May 1! Please see their blog for more details and application process.

PA Digital Rights Team - Copyright Office Hours
2025-05-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
PA Digital‘s Rights Team will host Copyright Office Hours on May 6 at 12 p.m. Mountain/11 AM Pacific on Zoom (please register in advance). Please bring your questions about copyright and digital collections, including questions about rights statements, fair use, and the public domain. To submit questions in advance, email Ana Enriquez (Head, Scholarly Communications and Copyright, Penn State University Libraries; aee32 [at] psu.edu).
This event is open to all — please share with interested colleagues.

2025 Area Studies Teaching & Collections Symposium
2025-05-07 09:00 - 2025-05-08 16:00
Mark your calendars for the upcoming 2025 Area Studies Teaching & Collections Symposium on May 7-8, 2025 (May 7 at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library and May 8 at Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library). Each day includes unique content! Engage with academic faculty, graduate students, and library professionals across Utah at this FREE symposium exploring ways to build and use area studies collections in higher education.
Hear from scholars specializing in Asian, Latin American, Middle East, Indigenous, and Pasifika Studies. Additional topics include using area studies primary source materials in teaching and scholarship and creating inclusive library collections.
Registration is now open, through April 25, 2025: https://ias.utah.edu/news/2025-library-symposium.php.
Lightning talk proposals are due by February 28, 2025 (to be given May 8 at BYU, Lee Library): https://utah.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cZmTygY6ZSVR8Vw
Contact for questions: uu_astcs@lists.utah.edu
