DLF Digest: July 2023
A monthly round-up of news, upcoming
working group meetings and events, and
CLIR program updates from the
Digital Library Federation.
This month’s news:
This month’s DLF group events:
DLF Project Managers Group Webinar
Thursday, July 20, 2pm ET/11am PT;
register in advance
The DLF
Project Managers Group is hosting two webinars this summer that will focus on project management when working with external partners. An organization's usual project workflows may need to be revised, changed or documented differently when partnering with
external organizations that are not used to working on digitization or digital library projects at any scale. Our panelists will share their experiences working with such partners and we'll also be sure there is plenty of time for questions and discussion
following their short presentations.
July’s panelists will include:
Danielle Afsordeh (she/her), Community Outreach Archivist, Central Arkansas Library System, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. Danielle will be speaking on her community partnership with the historically
Polish Marche community in Northern Pulaski County, Arkansas.
Brittany Bertazon (she/her/hers), Digital Project Manager, Utah State University, University Libraries. Brittany will be speaking on a class-integrated project that partnered with both the Utah State Archives
and a state governmental agency.
Molly Huber is the Outreach Coordinator for the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL), which is based within the University of Minnesota Libraries. Molly will speak about the relationships MDL has with its over
200 external contributing partners and how projects are conceived, organized, and successfully completed.
Gabriella Williams is the Digital Projects Librarian at the University of Miami Libraries (UML). She served as both project manager and primary investigator on UML’s CLIR grant project to digitize Pan American
World Airways records and create an aviation subject portal in DPLA. Gabby will be speaking about this project with specific emphasis on UML’s partnership with HistoryMiami Museum and their contributions to the project.
This month’s open DLF group meetings:
For the most up-to-date schedule of DLF group meetings and events (plus NDSA meetings, conferences, and more), bookmark the
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DLF member institution. Learn more about our working groups and how to get involved on the
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Gayle Schechter, MSLIS | she/her/hers
Program Associate
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