Hello DLF Announce,

 

CLIR is excited to announce plans for the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum Virtual Sessions, a special online gathering for sessions that were accepted in the 2022 program, but were not able to be presented in person. More information, including session abstracts, presenter names, and registration information, will be available soon. For now, mark your calendars for the following dates and sessions:

 

Thursday, April 13, 1pm-2pm ET: 

Centering Users: Developing a Community of Practice for User Experience & Archival Description

45-minute panel

 

Friday, April 14, 1pm-2pm ET: 

Convene, Discuss, Collaborate: Building a Transatlantic Digital Skills Community for Research Libraries During the Covid Pandemic

45-minute panel

 

Thursday, April 20, 1pm-2:30pm ET: 

Four 15-minute presentations:

• From Stagnant to Dynamic: The Development of a New University of Florida Digital Collections
• Manumitted: The People Enslaved by Quakers
• Newspaper Navigator: Hosting the Dataset and Deploying the Search Application
• Web archiving with Browsertrix Cloud!

 

Friday, April 21, 1pm-2pm ET: 

Days of Future Past: Why Race Matters in Metadata

45-minute panel

 

NDSA’s Digital Preservation will also host presentations on February 23. Details about their event can be found on the NDSA website.

 

All sessions will be free and open to the public.

 

If you have questions about these events, email [log in to unmask].

 

With many thanks,

Team DLF

 

My weekly schedule is Monday-Thursday.