The Texas Conference on Digital Libraries has extended the CFP deadline to Friday, February 8.

 

Read the full CFP here: https://www.tdl.org/tcdl/call-for-proposals/

 

Need inspiration? Check out last year’s successful programs: https://tdl-ir.tdl.org/handle/2249.1/87439 or our collaboration spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/115AVmwgqW9zEA5DgFfK7lBlDuB6UstshE3hxQxfjAqQ/edit?usp=sharing

 

This year’s theme, Breaking Down Barriers, seeks to spotlight innovative projects and experiences within digital libraries and other digital work/collaborations that push. It aims to transform and overcome hurdles between public/technical services and archives; collections and users; the “digital library” and the “library,” and among different disciplines.

 

The program committee additionally solicits traditional TCDL-addressed topics such as discussions, presentations, or work on any step in the life-cycle of digital projects or the development of software and applications in the digital library world.

 

Submissions are encouraged from students, scholars, and professionals in all career or study levels, representing themselves, public and private businesses, and institutions from the great state of Texas and beyond.

 

Here are some of the broad areas the committee hope to see covered at TCDL 2019:

• Presentations that explore perspectives that feature underrepresented communities or narratives
• Creation, promotion, preservation, or management of digital projects/assets
• Software creation or innovative use
• Application development
• Copyright, Institutional Repositories, Open Access or other Digital Scholarship topics
• Collaborations across departments, schools, or institutions
• Integration of digital means into new spaces
• Digital preservation topics
• Rights, reuse, or risk management
• Analytics and assessment of digital library collections
• Building an accessible digital library
• (Re)framing traditional roles and identities

 

Complete proposals must include a title, abstract (no more than 500 words), and information for each speaker (name, title, institution, brief bio, and email address).

 

All submitted proposals are peer reviewed by the program committee to assure that the program provides significant, timely, and authoritative information. All papers presented at TCDL 2019 are published in the conference proceedings, and made available through the Texas Digital Library’s website. The conference language is English.

 

Important Dates:

***extended to February 8***: Deadline for all conference proposals

March 8: Notification of acceptance

April 5: Early-bird registration deadline

Conference Dates: May 20-23, 2019

 

Types of Sessions:

• Presentations (20-30 minutes): General presentations on practical work, theoretical or speculative issues, or ongoing completed research.
• Panels (60-minute or 80-minute): Panel sessions should address a single topic from multiple perspectives. We encourage panels to be organized to represent a range of professional backgrounds and experience.
• 24x7 (24 slides in 7 minutes): 7-minute presentations comprising no more than 24 slides.
• Posters: Posters will be featured at the conference reception and through a “Minute Madness” session, during which presenters will give a 60-second summary of each poster.
• Workshops, Tutorials, Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions: These events provide venues for in-depth instruction in important areas of digital library practice (workshops), demonstrations of new or useful tools and technologies (tutorials), and gatherings of interested attendees to engage in discussion about a particular topic (birds-of-a-feather sessions). Events in this category can range from 1 to 4 hours.

 

-Sarah Potvin, on behalf of the TCDL planning committee