TCDL 2025: How Far We’ve Come

2025 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries

Commons Learning Center, Austin, Texas10100 Burnet RoadAustin, TX 78758

Dates: May 20 - 22, 2025

Theme: How Far We’ve Come: Celebrating the Community

Over the past 20 years, Texas Digital Library has come a long way and has much to celebrate. We have cultivated a vibrant community of creative and collaborative information workers who are committed to supporting accessible and inclusive scholarly, cultural heritage, and educational materials that represent our diverse populations. This year, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of TDL and how our collective action has blossomed into cumulative impact across the state of Texas. Join us at the 2025 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries to reflect on how far we’ve come as a community, review current roadmaps, and discuss our plans for the future. We invite you to consider how collaboration and engagement - both within and beyond the TDL community - can highlight our shared success. Let’s celebrate our achievements, interrogate shortcomings and surprises, and highlight what we’ve learned on the way.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Katherine Skinner

Dr. Katherine Skinner currently serves as Director of Programs for Invest in Open Infrastructure, where she works to advance the adoption of and investment in open infrastructure in scholarly communication. She is an open knowledge researcher-activist with deep commitments to community building, organizational resilience, and systems thinking. Her passion for facilitating, empowering, and cultivating communities led her to co-found and direct the Educopia Institute for more than 15 years, where she provided scaffolding, training, and systems to support such collaborative groups as Library Publishing Coalition, MetaArchive Cooperative, BitCurator Consortium, C4DISC, Software Preservation Network, and Maintainers.

She received her PhD from Emory University in 2005, and she has authored and co-authored three books and numerous reports, articles, and posts including “Red Queen’s Race” and “Emperor’s New Clothes“. She has served as a Principal Investigator for 25 research projects funded by foundations and federal sources on topics including the Reasonable Costs to Achieve Public Access to Federally Funded Research and Scientific Data (NSF), Book Analytics Dashboard Project (Mellon), Next Generation Library Publishing (Arcadia), and OSSArcFlow: Researching Archival Workflows for Born-Digital Content (IMLS).

Opening Keynote Session on May 20, 2025

“Navigating the Now: Shared Values as Our Compass for Community Action”

Rapid-fire change is a defining characteristic of 2025, both in and beyond the US. Research and education have come under attack, resulting in a broad range of science, education, and knowledge management efforts being defunded and/or unsettled by executive orders in the first four months of the year. Rather than being stymied by fear of these still-developing stories, we have to move with clear intention in common directions. In this talk, Dr. Skinner will spotlight ways we have actually been preparing for this moment for decades - both at TCDL and beyond - and she’ll challenge us to meet it together, united, and with strength.

Conference Proceedings

The 2025 TCDL Conference Proceedings are available in the Texas Digital Library (TDL) repository.

• 2025 TCDL Proceedings
• 2025 TCDL Call for Proposals
• 2025 TCDL Program

TCDL 2025 Announcements

TCDL 2025 Student Scholarship Recipients

• Henna Punjabi, University of North Texas
• Benjamin Schachter, University of North Texas
• Haiden Scheffrin, University of North Texas
• Hilary Turner, University of North Texas

The TCDL Student Scholarship program is made possible by a generous anonymous donation from TDL members. Congratulations to all!

Sponsors

Thank you to our TCDL 2025 Sponsors!

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TCDL 2025 Planning Committee

Chair: Heidi Winkler, Texas Tech UniversityVice Chair: Elliot Williams, University of Texas at San AntonioIsabelle Antes, Texas State UniversityMaria Balduf, The University of North Texas Health Science Center of Fort WorthKristin Clark, Texas Woman’s UniversityJon Crossno, UT Southwestern Medical CenterBonnie Gardner, Texas A&M UniversityLauren Gottlieb-Miller, University of HoustonElizabeth Headrick, Texas Woman’s UniversityMeagan Hernandez, Texas Digital LibrarySusan Hoover, University of HoustonAngie Houser, UT Southwestern Medical CenterKe’ara Hunt, Texas Digital LibraryJean Jolly, Tarrant County CollegeMarcia McIntosh, University of North TexasKate McNally Carter, University of HoustonDevon Murphy, The University of Texas at AustinShannon Pensa, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyPhebe Raglin, Texas A&M University-Corpus ChristiAdriance Rhoades, Texas Woman’s UniversityMegan Scott, Texas Tech UniversityXuan Zhou, Texas State University

About the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries

Since 2007, the Texas Digital Library has hosted the annual Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). TCDL covers topics relevant to the creation, promotion, dissemination, 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, catalogers, faculty members, technical staff, and others — in order to build a practical, usable, and sustainable model for digital libraries.

TCDL encourages and welcomes participation from students, scholars, librarians, researchers, faculty, and users from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. All are welcome!

Read TCDL’s Code of Conduct and Land Acknowledgement.