A monthly round-up of news, upcoming working group meetings and events, and CLIR program updates from the Digital Library Federation. See all past Digests here.
Hello and happy April, DLF community! It’s officially spring, and our community is staying quite busy with Working Group meetings and events. We’re particularly excited to share that the DLF Forum Call for Proposals is now open through the middle of April. Read on to learn how to be a part of all the great things happening in our world this month. We’ll see you around soon!
— Team DLF
This month’s news:
- Submit: The Call for Proposals is now open for the DLF Forum and Learn@DLF, to be held in Denver, Colorado, November 16-19. Learn more and submit by April 14.
- Program Available: The preliminary program is now available for the 2025 IIIF Annual Conference in Leeds, June 2-6. View the program and register for the event.
- Attend: Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference, April 2-5, 2025 in Minneapolis. Learn more about it here.
- Participate: DLF’s Born Digital Access Working Group (BDAWG) invites participation in their AI for Access survey, which investigates how archivists are currently using or not using artificial intelligence to facilitate access to born-digital archival material. Learn more and participate by April 14.
- Attend: The Big Data and the Preservation Problem Webinar, part of CLIR’s Climate Resiliency Action Series, is happening Wednesday, April 9, 12pm ET/9am PT. Read on for more information about the series and this workshop.
- Discuss: After attending the webinar, join Climate Circle Discussion #6: Big Data and the Preservation Problem, on Friday, April 18, 1pm ET/ 10am PT
- Catch Up: Past Climate Action Webinars are available on the CLIR/DLF YouTube channel or the project website’s Resource page.
This month’s open DLF 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. Meeting dates are subject to change. Can’t find meeting call-in information? Email us at info@diglib.org. Reminder: Team DLF’s working days are Monday through Thursday.
- DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group (BDAWG): Tuesday, 4/1, 2pm ET / 11am PT
- DLF Digital Accessibility Working Group (DAWG): Wednesday, 4/2, 2pm ET / 11am PT
- DLF AIG User Experience Working Group: Friday, 4/18, 11am ET / 8am PT
- DLF AIG Metadata Assessment Working Group: Thursday, 4/24, 1:15pm ET / 10:15am PT
- DLF Digital Accessibility Policy & Workflows Subgroup: Friday, 4/25, 1pm ET / 10am PT
- DLF Digital Accessibility IT & Development Group: Monday, 4/28, 1:15pm ET / 10:15am PT
- DLF Digitization Interest Group: Monday, 4/28, 2pm ET / 11am PT
- DLF Committee for Equity & Inclusion: Monday, 4/28, 3pm ET / 12pm PT
DLF groups are open to ALL, regardless of whether or not you’re affiliated with a DLF member organization. Learn more about our working groups on our website. Interested in scheduling an upcoming working group call or reviving a past group? Check out the DLF Organizer’s Toolkit. As always, feel free to get in touch at info@diglib.org.
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- Subscribe to the DLF Forum newsletter.
- Join, start, or revive a working group and browse their work on the DLF Wiki.
- Subscribe to our community listserv, DLF-Announce.
- Bookmark our Community Calendar.
- Learn more about becoming a DLF member organization.
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- Contact us at info@diglib.org.
