Month: May 2020

DLF Forum and Fall Events Move Online

2020 Forum & Affiliated Events

Based on the overwhelming responses to our community survey, the number and distribution of proposals for all CFPs, and CLIR’s ongoing monitoring of the pandemic situation, it has become clear to us that for the health and safety of our attendees and presenters, we must transition all of our fall events to a virtual format. We are sorry we won’t be able to explore Baltimore in 2020, but we’re already making arrangements to hold our 2022 events there, so we’ll just have to wait a bit longer to enjoy time together in Charm City.

What does this mean for 2020? We are not entirely sure yet, but we would love your input. We are happy to share this second community survey about virtual events in which we ask for your thoughts on what you’d like to see from a virtual CLIR/DLF event or series of events this fall. We would appreciate your input by Monday, June 1.

We understand that you may have questions, and while we may not have the answers just yet, we welcome the dialogue with you. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at forum@diglib.org, and thank you so much for your understanding and patience during this unprecedented time. Stay healthy and safe, and we’ll be in touch with more soon.

NDSA Welcomes Three New Members!

As of April 2020, the NDSA Leadership unanimously voted to welcome its three most recent applicants into the membership.

  • University of Dayton
  • Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
  • University of California, Berkeley Library

This brings the total membership to number over 250 members! Each of these new members brings a host of skills and experience to our group. Dayton works actively to support scholarship teaching and learning; RISD has over 18TB of digital materials and has an IMLS grant to implement a new DAMS; Berkeley, led by Coordinating Committee Member, Salwa Ismail, has been solidifying its born digital workflows and is developing a web-archiving program. 

Each of these organizations has new additions to our various interest and working groups – so keep an eye out for them on your calls and be sure to give them a shout out. Please join me in welcoming our new members. To review our list of members, you can see them here.

 

NISO Interview on NDSA’s 2019 Storage Infrastructure Report

Jill O’Neill, NISO Director of Content, recently interviewed Laura Alagna, Carol Kussmann, and Nathan Tallman to discuss NDSA’s recent 2019 Storage Infrastructure Report.

The 2019 Storage Infrastructure Report, released by the NDSA in late February, offers a much needed glimpse into how academic librarians are currently handling digital storage for their institutions. In another segment of the NISO Interview series, Jill O’Neill sat down with three of the report authors to discuss the findings and possible next steps.

Listen to the complete interview at NISO I/O.

2020 NDSA Agenda for Digital Stewardship Released

The NDSA Agenda Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of the 2020 NDSA Agenda for Digital Stewardship! 

The NDSA Agenda, last published in 2015, represents a complete update around current advances and needs within crucial areas of focus such as digital collections, technological infrastructure, organizational policy and practice, and research priorities. Additionally, the Agenda also builds on results from the 2018 NDSA Institutional Survey on Priority Areas in digital stewardship to better articulate key areas for building research and developing practice.

The 2020 NDSA Agenda has something for everyone: key priorities synthesized for funders, researchers, and organizational leaders, as well as actionable recommendations in key areas for practitioners and communities. 

The NDSA Agenda Working group would also like to thank the community for your role in helping to shape this Agenda by participating in the survey, serving as reviewers, and pursuing the work of digital stewardship in a variety of efforts that allowed us to research, write, and reflect on how your work moves us forward together in 2020.

Best,

The NDSA Agenda Working Group

  • Micah Altman, MIT Libraries, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Karen Cariani, WGBH Media Library and Archives
  • Bradley Daigle, Academic Preservation Trust; University of Virginia Library
  • Christie Moffatt, National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health
  • Sibyl Schaefer, University of California, San Diego
  • Bethany Scott, University of Houston Libraries’ Special Collections
  • Lauren Work, University of Virginia Library
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