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DLF Digest: April 2024 A monthly round-up of news, upcoming working group<https://www.diglib.org/groups/> meetings and events, and CLIR<https://www.clir.org/> program updates from the Digital Library Federation<https://www.diglib.org/>. See all past Digests here<https://www.diglib.org/category/dlf-digest/>. ________________________________ Hello and happy April, DLF community! It’s spring, and our community is certainly staying busy. We have many exciting group meetings coming up this month, along with some Forum news we’ll be able to share in the coming weeks. Read on to learn how to be a part of all of the great things happening in our world this month. We’ll see you around soon! - Team DLF This month’s news: * Sponsorship Opportunities Available: Sponsorship opportunities for the 2024 DLF Forum, in person in July and online in October, are now available.<https://forum2024.diglib.org/sponsorship/> * Application Remain Open: CLIR invites applications<https://www.clir.org/recordings-at-risk/apply-for-an-award/> from collecting organizations for the digital reformatting of audio and audiovisual materials for the Recordings at Risk<https://www.clir.org/recordings-at-risk/> grant program now through April 17, 2024. * Program Now Available: The preliminary program for the IIIF Annual Conference is now available, to be held in Los Angeles, June 4-7. Review the program and register for the conference.<https://iiif.io/event/2024/los-angeles/schedule/?mc_cid=a32c8e3114&mc_eid=e802b62d11#2024-iiif-annual-conference-schedule> * Registration Remains Open: Registration is still open<https://netpreserve.org/ga2024/registration/> for the International Internet Preservation Consortium’s (IIPC) General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference in Paris at the end of this month, April 24-26. * New Publication: The Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) and the Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives project have published a Special Issue on Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives; read it here<https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/issue/59/info/>. 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 DLF Community Calendar<https://www.diglib.org/opportunities/calendar/>. Can’t find meeting call-in information? Email us at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Reminder: Team DLF working days are Monday through Thursday. * Born-Digital Access Working Group (BDAWG): Tuesday, April 2, 2pm ET / 11am PT. * Digital Accessibility Working Group (DAWG): Wednesday, April 3, 2pm ET / 11am PT. * Assessment Interest Group (AIG) Cultural Assessment Working Group (CAWG): Monday, April 8, 2pm ET/11am PT. * AIG Cost Assessment Working Group: Monday, April 8, 3pm ET/12pm PT. * AIG Metadata Assessment Working Group: Thursday, April 11, 1:15pm ET / 10:15am PT. * AIG User Experience Working Group: Friday, April 19, 11am ET / 8am PT. * Committee for Equity and Inclusion (CEI): Monday, April 22, 3pm ET / 12pm PT. * Climate Justice Working Group: Wednesday, April 24, 12pm ET / 9am PT. * DAWG Policy & Workflows subgroup: Friday, April 26, 1pm ET / 11am PT. DLF groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether or not you’re affiliated with a DLF member organization<https://www.diglib.org/about/members/>. Learn more about our working groups on our website<https://www.diglib.org/groups/>. Interested in scheduling an upcoming working group call or reviving a past group<https://www.diglib.org/groups/past/>? Check out the DLF Organizer’s Toolkit<https://www.diglib.org/dlf-organizers-toolkit/>. As always, feel free to get in touch at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Get Involved / Connect with Us Below are some ways to stay connected with us and the digital library community: * Subscribe to the DLF Forum newsletter<https://share.hsforms.com/1MhcafbpARxGCIS1OQD6rKgc21y3>. * Join, start, or revive a working group and browse their work on the DLF Wiki<https://wiki.diglib.org/Main_Page>. * Subscribe to our community listserv, DLF-Announce<https://lists.clir.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=DLF-ANNOUNCE>. * Bookmark our Community Calendar<https://digital-conferences-calendar.info/>. * Learn more about becoming a DLF member organization<https://www.diglib.org/about/join/>. * Follow us on Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/clirdlf/>, Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/CLIRDLF/>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-library-federation/>, YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/DLFCLIR>, and X<https://twitter.com/CLIRDLF>. * Contact us at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. ----------- Aliya Reich | she/her/hers Program Manager for Conferences and Events 🦀 Based in Baltimore, MD Digital Library Federation (DLF)<https://www.diglib.org/> Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)<https://www.clir.org/> 1800 Diagonal Rd, Suite 600, Alexandria, VA 22314 My weekly schedule is Monday-Thursday. ######################################################################## to manage your DLF-ANNOUNCE subscription, visit https://www.diglib.org/announce