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Hello everyone,

The 2020 DLF Forum may be over, but your opportunity to get involved with DLF year-round isn’t. Long before COVID-19 introduced the concept of “Zoom fatigue” into our lives, DLF’s working groups organized across institutional and geographical boundaries<https://wiki.diglib.org/Planning_Virtual_Meetings_and_Webinars>, building community while apart, to get work done. Made possible through the support of our institutional members<https://www.diglib.org/members/>, working groups are the efforts of a committed community of practitioners, using DLF as a framework for action, engaged in problem-solving in a variety of digital library subfields from project management and assessment to labor and accessibility.

Get to know DLF’s working groups in this series of videos and blog posts they created ahead of this year’s DLF Forum: https://forum2020.diglib.org/working-groups/. Several working groups are holding open meetings this week, and we encourage you to join us, because DLF’s working groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether you’re affiliated with a DLF member institution or not.

This week’s meetings (contact us [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> if you need a meeting’s call-in information):

Born-Digital Access Working Group<https://groups.google.com/g/dlf-bdaccess-working-group>: Tues., Nov. 17, 2 PM ET/11 AM PT
Project Managers Group<https://www.diglib.org/groups/pmg/>: Tues., Nov. 17, 3:30 PM ET/12:30 PM PT
Museums Cohort<https://www.diglib.org/groups/membership-cohorts/museums-cohort/>: Wed., Nov. 18, 2 PM ET/11 AM PT
Committee for Equity & Inclusion<https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-committee-for-equity-and-inclusion/>: Thurs., Nov. 19, 2 PM ET/11 AM PT
Digital Library Pedagogy Group<https://www.diglib.org/groups/digital-library-pedagogy/>: Fri., Nov. 20, 3 PM ET/12 PM PT

Best,
Gayle

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Gayle Schechter, MSLIS | she/her/hers
Program Associate
🍑 Based in Atlanta, GA (Mvskoke land<https://www.whose.land/en/>)
The Digital Library Federation (DLF)<https://www.diglib.org/>
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR<http://clir.org/>)
Arlington, VA
@CLIRDLF<https://twitter.com/CLIRDLF> | @akaGladys<https://twitter.com/akaGladys>



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