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 June! Now that the spring semester has wound down and summer is here, there’s lots happening in our community. From free or inexpensive high-quality online events to major milestones for convenings coming up this fall (hello Forum registration!), we’re excited to bring you a Digest chock-full of great happenings. Read on, be well, and enjoy your month.
— Aliya from Team DLF
This month’s news:
- Registration open, program announced: Registration for the DLF Forum and Learn@DLF is now open. Peruse the Learn@DLF schedule and register at the earlybird rate to join us in Denver in November. DLF Forum program will be released later this month.
- Attention bookworms: DLF Climate Justice working group will host a summer reading and discussion group this year on After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory by Trevor Owens, available open access, two chapters at a time. Register here. First meeting is June 3.
- Virtual event: Accessibility Summer Camp will be held June 13 online.
- Coming soon: Registration for iPRES 2025 in Wellington, NZ opens on June 3.
- Opportunity: H-NET Spaces invites applications for its Spaces Cohort Program, which supports early-stage projects and/or scholars in need of support and hands-on training in DH methods. Applications due July 1.
- Free virtual event: The Libraries & DH Special Interest Group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is co-hosting Libraries & DH: Histories, Perspectives, Prospects Mini-Conference, a free gathering at this summer’s DH2025 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on July 14.
- Office closure: CLIR and DLF are closed on Thursday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth.
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. Meeting dates are subject to change. Can’t find the meeting call-in information? Email us at info@diglib.org. Reminder: Team DLF working days are Monday through Thursday.
- DLF Digitization Interest Group: Monday, 6/2, 2pm ET / 11am PT
- DLF Climate Justice Group: Tuesday, 6/3, 1pm ET / 10am PT
- DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group (BDAWG): Tuesday, 6/3, 2pm ET / 11am PT
- DLF Digital Accessibility Working Group (DAWG): Wednesday, 6/4, 2pm ET / 11am PT
- DLF AIG Metadata Assessment Working Group: Thursday, 6/19, 1:15pm ET / 10:15am PT
- DLF AIG User Experience Working Group: Friday, 6/20 11am ET / 8am PT
- DLF Digitization Interest Group: Monday, 6/23, 2pm ET / 11am PT
- DLF Committee for Equity and Inclusion: Monday, 6/23, 3pm ET / 12pm PT
- DLF Climate Justice Group: Tuesday, 6/24, 1pm ET / 10am PT
- DLF Digital Accessibility Policy & Workflows Subgroup: Friday, 6/27, 1pm ET / 10am PT
- DLF Digital Accessibility Working Group – IT Subgroup: Monday, 6/30, 1pm ET / 10am 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.
