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Keynote announcement 11/10/14

Make plans now to attend the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries<https://conferences.tdl.org/tcdl/> (#tcdl2015), to be held April 27-28 in at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in Austin, Texas.


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BESS SADLER WILL BE TCDL 2015 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

We are delighted to announce that Bess Sadler from Stanford University Libraries will serve as the keynote speaker for TCDL 2015.


An open source advocate and self-described library “geek,” Bess Sadler is Manager for Application Development at Stanford University Library and was formerly Chief Architect for the Online Library Environment and Research and Development Librarian at University of Virginia Library. She is a co-founder of several successful open source software projects including Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org<http://projectblacklight.org/>) and Hydra (http://projecthydra.org<http://projecthydra.org/>), which are used by libraries, museums, archives, and cultural institutions around the world.

You can follow Bess Sadler on Twitter at https://twitter.com/eosadler and on her blog “Solvitur ambulando” at http://www.ibiblio.org/bess/.


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EARLY REGISTRATION WILL OPEN JANUARY 20

Discounted early registration for TCDL 2015 will open on January 20, 2015. Conference registration fees will cover conference sessions, including the keynote session, presentations, poster sessions, and some workshops. Light breakfast and snacks, as well as a conference reception, will be included as part of the regular registration package.


Costs: Discounted rates for early registration will be $125 for TDL members, $185 for regular attendees, and $60 for students. Early registration will open on January 20 and continue through March 31, after which rates will increase.

More information about registration is available on the TCDL website<https://conferences.tdl.org/tcdl/index.php/TCDL/index/pages/view/2015registration>.


A limited number of hotel rooms are available at the conference center hotel at a special rate of $179 per night through March 30, 2015. See the conference website for details.<https://conferences.tdl.org/tcdl/index.php/TCDL/TCDL2015/schedConf/accommodation>


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ABOUT TCDL 2015

The Texas Conference on Digital Libraries covers topics relevant to the creation, promotion, and preservation of research, scholarship, and cultural heritage digital materials. The goal of TCDL is to bring together those working on digital projects -- including outreach librarians, repository managers, cataloguers, faculty members, technical staff, and others -- in order to build a practical, usable and sustainable model for digital libraries.



When: April 27-28, 2015

Where: AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center<http://meetattexas.com/> in Austin, Texas

For more information, and to view information about past conferences, visit the TCDL 2015 website.<https://conferences.tdl.org/tcdl/>


Violeta Ilik
On behalf of the Conference Program Planning Committee


Violeta Ilik
Digital Innovations Librarian
Galter Health Sciences Library
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University Clinical and
Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)
303 E. Chicago Ave, 2-212
Chicago, Illinois  60611
office: (312) 503 0421
violeta.ilik at northwestern.edu
www.galter.northwestern.edu<http://www.galter.northwestern.edu/>
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