Triangle Research Libraries Network

Remote Rap: Pollinator Gardening for the South
2021-06-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Register for the Zoom discussion.

TRLN is pleased to announce a panel discussion about pollinator and native plant gardening, featuring the NCSU faculty authors of the book Pollinator Gardening for the South (recently published by UNC Press) and the curator of the native plants garden at Duke Gardens. You can register before (or during) the discussion and will receive the meeting link immediately.

This step-by-step guide will answer all of your questions about how to create beautiful gardens designed to welcome beneficial pollinators across the South. Combining up-to-date scientific information with artful design strategies, Danesha Seth Carley and Anne M. Spafford teach gardeners of all levels to plan, plant, and maintain successful pollinator gardens at home and in shared community sites. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469659411/pollinator-gardening-for-the-south/

Panelists:

Danesha Seth Carley, author, pollinator expert, Associate Professor, Horticulture Science, NCSUElaine Maisner, executive editor, UNC PressAnnabel Renwick, curator of the Blomquist Garden of Native Plants at Sarah P. Duke GardensAnne Spafford, author, landscape architect, Associate Professor, Horticulture Science, NCSUModerator: Elaine Westbrooks, Vice Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian, UNC Chapel Hill

Attendees will receive a discount code for purchase of the book. Attendees also will be entered into a drawing to receive a courtesy copy of the book. Please reach out to events@trln.org if you have any questions. We hope you can join us!

Collections Interest Group
2021-06-25 15:00 - 16:30
Via zoom.

TRLN Discovery Development Meeting
2021-07-06 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-09-07 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-11-02 11:00 - 12:00

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition Folksonomy Discussion
2021-07-16 16:00 - 17:00
In April, TRLN hosted an event about the digital archive for the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition for which you registered. The same organizers are hosting a follow up event to explore and discuss generating a folksonomy for the archive’s materials. This interactive session will be an exchange of ideas between attendees and the archive’s organizers so each can explore folksonomy development together and learn from each other’s expertise. Goals for this session include:

Increased awareness of the Stop LAPD Spying Archive;Exploration and discussion of the tools and strategies of folksonomy development in other projects participants have heard about or worked directly with;Collect feedback on folksonomy development process for project and the user experience of the archive’s platform; Form connections between traditional library cataloging work and more inclusive forms of cataloging like folksonomies;Gain knowledge from a case study that could inform the way libraries work;Exposure to a social justice project that incorporates skills often used in libraries.

We are looking for about 10 participants. If you are interested in participating, please contact kelly@trln.org.

Privacy in the Library: Understanding the Issues and Working on Practical Strategies for Change
2021-07-19 10:00 - 12:00
Privacy is one of the core values of librarianship, but often our practices don’t line up with our ethics. In this workshop, we’ll be talking about how to bridge that gap with Alison Macrina of Library Freedom Project. Alison will give an overview of privacy issues in libraries, covering vendors, library websites, public computers, and more. She’ll talk about our rights and responsibilities in protecting patron information, how to talk about and teach privacy to various stakeholders, and other steps to better privacy practices that can create a culture of privacy in the library. This workshop will be partly interactive; participants are asked to come ready to share their own experiences and ask questions.

Registration is required via the registration form. Registrants will receive confirmation and Zoom information via email. Workshop details can also be found on the Annual Meeting event page.

Information Access for People Incarcerated in North Carolina: A Teach-In for Academic Librarians
2021-07-20 10:00 - 11:00
Biff Hollingsworth, Collecting and Public Programming Archivist, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries will lead a short workshop meant to introduce fellow information professionals to the landscape of information access for people incarcerated in North Carolina. The session will include information on becoming involved in prison support work and discussion about the potential role of academic librarians in information mutual aid.

Registration is required via the registration form. Registrants will receive confirmation and Zoom information via email. Workshop details can also be found on the Annual Meeting event page.

Executive Committee Meeting
2021-07-20 10:00 - 11:30, 2021-10-08 13:00 - 14:30

Racial Equity Institute Groundwater Presentation
2021-07-21 09:00 - 12:00
In REI Groundwater, REI organizers will use stories and data to present a perspective that racism is fundamentally structural in nature. By examining characteristics of modern-day racial inequity, the presentation introduces participants to an analysis that most find immediately helpful and relevant.

Registration is required via the registration form. There is a 100 participant cap. Registrants will receive confirmation and Zoom information via email. Workshop details can also be found on the Annual Meeting event page.

Resource Sharing Working Group
2021-07-22 14:30 - 16:00, 2021-10-21 14:30 - 16:00
Quarterly meeting of the Resource Sharing Working Group via Zoom.

Electronic Resources Management Working Group meeting
2021-07-23 13:30 - 16:00
via Zoom

TRLN Annual Meeting
2021-07-29 09:45 - 2021-07-30 15:20
“Caring for Our Communities, Our Spaces, Ourselves”

The 2021 Annual Meeting will be held virtually on Thursday, July 29 and Friday, July 30. This year’s theme will be “Caring for Our Communities, Our Spaces, Ourselves.”

The meeting will feature two keynote speakers, a University Librarian panel discussion related to the theme, and a student panel discussion about privacy, equity, and surveillance capitalism. Throughout the week of July 19, we will be offering three workshops.

This page will continue to be updated with details as we get closer to the Annual Meeting. If you have any questions, please contact events@trln.org.

On this page:

RegistrationSchedule & ProgramJuly 29July 30KeynotesWorkshopsRecordingsContact & CommunicationHow to join SlackRespectful Space

Registration

Registration is open for the 2021 TRLN Annual Meeting via the registration form.

Registration is required for both the Annual Meeting and the workshops. Registration in advance helps with our planning and is much appreciated, though there is no deadline to register. Regardless of when you register and what you register for, you will receive Zoom information via email either a few days before the event and/or on the morning of the event.

Register

Schedule & Program

Thursday, July 29

9:45 – 10:00am
Opening Remarks & Introductions
Lisa Croucher (TRLN)

10:00 – 11:00am
Keynote Speaker
Jessamyn StanleyModerator: Katryna Robinson (Duke)You can submit questions for Jessamyn prior to the keynote using this form. You will also be able to ask questions live.

11:00 – 11:15am
15 Minute Break

11:15am – 12:30pm
Taking Action Against Systemic Racism
Deborah Jakubs (Duke), Greg Raschke (NC State), Theodosia Shields (NCCU), and Elaine Westbrooks (UNC-CH)Moderator: María R. Estorino (UNC)In this session, University Librarians will share their plans for action (underway and forthcoming) to address systemic racism in academic libraries, broadly as well as in the specific organizations that they lead. Panelists will be revisiting some of the themes they addressed in the Black Lives Matter panel at the 2020 TRLN Annual Meeting. Participants will be invited to submit questions before and during the session.You can submit questions prior using this form. You will also be able to ask questions live.

12:30 – 1:30pm
1 Hour Break

1:30 – 2:00pm
Deepfakery: Disinformation’s Future and How We Fight Back
Don Gates (NCCU)What is ‘deepfake’ technology, where did it come from, and where might it go? Deepfakes have the potential to create a world in which “Seeing is Believing” is no longer tenable, and we’ll need to come to terms with how deepfakes can change how we determine what information is credible.

Engaging with E-Resource Accessibility Issues at TRLN
Virginia Martin (Duke), Beth Ashmore (NC State)Members of the Electronic Resources Management Working Group will provide an overview of their recent work on e-resource accessibility issues, including engaging with the Library Accessibility Alliance, updating their licensing principles and guidelines, and creating a toolkit for negotiating accessibility language in e-resource licenses.

Copyright Update: APIs, Appropriation Art, and New Approaches to Licensing and Liability
Will Cross (NC State), Arnetta Girardeau (Duke), Anne Gilliland (UNC), Dave Hansen (Duke)*Prerecorded presentations that we recommend viewing before this session.From historic Supreme Court decisions to new federal legislation, it’s been a big year for copyright. Join copyright librarians from UNC, Duke, and NC State as we discuss what’s happening in copyright and what it all means for libraries, universities, and scholarly communication as a whole.

DUL Environmental Monitoring Program
Beth Doyle (Duke)DUL Conservation Services monitors several library environments across campus. This presentation will outline the equipment and software we use to collect this data, and explain how we analyze the data to to identify and respond to environmental issues.

2:00 – 2:05pm
5 Minute Break

2:05 – 2:35pm
Race and identity in the American Slavery Documents collection
Jessica Janecki (Duke)We are individually cataloging The American Slavery Documents Collection, which includes bills of sale, wills, and leases. How do we describe the race and identity of enslaved persons who are only described by others? How can we name them? Are our descriptive choices respectful of the people we are describing?

A Wolfpack Solution to a Wicked Problem: The Innovation Studio, the ‘Thing From the Future’, and Teaching Remotely
Tori Culler and Adam Rogers (NC State)The Innovation Studio is a new teaching program from NC State University Libraries that has been grappling with translating in-person methods to a virtual context. We will discuss how transforming the card game “The Thing From the Future” into an interactive website addressed the challenges of scale and learner engagement.

Partnerships that Drive Student Success: Building an engaging community for engineering graduate students
Sarah Park and Sue Mathias (Duke)What do graduate engineering students need to be successful? At Duke University, communications instructors in the School of Engineering and science and engineering librarians collaborate to find that answer. Together, we have developed programs that support student success and engagement. Join us to hear about our engaging partnership.

Make Do and Mend: Best Practices for Team Work in the Free Tier of Trello
Tessa Minchew (NC State)As was inevitable, Atlassian has disincentivized team use of the free tier of much-beloved project management tool, Trello. This presentation will discuss best practices developed by NC State University Libraries’ Acquisitions & Discovery Department to support the continued management of a wide variety of work within the latest product constraints.

2:35 – 2:40pm
5 Minute Break

2:40 – 3:00pmLightning Talks Set #1
How to query SolrGenia Kazymova (TRLN)This lightning talk will briefly explain a very basic query Solr syntax and demonstrate some examples searching TRLN catalog by using the Solr Admin page or the catalog link.Aligning a Discovery Project with a Complicated Year: How a Novel Project Management Approach Saved our BaconAshley Evans Bandy and Andreas Orphanides (NC State)How do you keep a project on task when reality seems to insist otherwise? We describe how a novel project management approach that we call “micro-teams” helped our discovery project weather both the pandemic and the loss of our initial project manager at the project’s halfway point.Sustaining the Animal TurnAlyssa Robinson (NC State)Alyssa Robinson, Project Librarian for the Animal Turn project, will discuss the opportunities and challenges of managing and sustaining a large, collaborative, grant-funded digitization project, the “Animal Turn,” during a difficult year.

3:00 – 3:20pmLightning Talks Set #2
Authority Data in DiscoveryDennis Christman (Duke)TRLN Discovery was recently enhanced to provide indexing of name authority data for our bibliographic records. Come learn about what this actually means, and how it helps our patrons with a variety of examples, from simply providing additional access points to advancing DEI initiatives and goals.Facilitating Access: Remediating Accessibility in the Carolina Digital RepositoryRebekah Kati and Deseree Stukes (UNC)In 2020, the Carolina Digital Repository launched a service to create screen-reader friendly PDFs upon request. In this presentation, we will describe the on-demand service, workflows and steps to create accessible PDFs. Additionally, we will reflect on best practices and lessons learned.4 Collections, 2 Systems, 1 MAP: Creating an Oral Histories Metadata Application Profile for the DCRKaylin Blount (UNC)This presentation will describe the creation of an oral histories Metadata Application Profile for the Digital Collections Repository. It will discuss the challenges of evaluating metadata from two different systems, the decisions made to support community generated metadata, implications for our migration out of CONTENTdm, and future plans.

Friday, July 30

9:45 – 10:00am
Opening Remarks & Introductions
Lisa Croucher (TRLN)

10:00 – 11:00am
Keynote Speaker
Fred StutzmanModerator: David Woodbury (NC State)You can submit questions prior to the keynote using this form. You will also be able to ask questions live.

11:00 – 11:15am
15 Minute Break

11:15am – 12:30pm
Access, Privacy, and Equity: The Student Experience
Jazzi Brown (Florida International University), Eric Johnson (Miami University), Nick Sengstaken (UNC), and Sheariah Stevens (NCSU)Moderator: David Tully (NC State)This panel features student leaders from universities across the country, including NCSU and UNC, discussing their unique experiences with surveillance and proctoring technology, intensified during the pandemic, as well as their organizing around access and equity issues. Panelists will share their thoughts on the role of students in effecting change in higher education. Participants will be invited to submit questions before and during the session.You can submit questions prior using this form. You will also be able to ask questions live.

12:30 – 1:30pm
1 Hour Break

1:30 – 2:00pm
What’s an “Open Knowledge Center,” and how does it fit in with the library’s work?
Will Cross, Micah Vandegrift, Scott Bailey, Ashley Evans Bandy, and Kelsey Dufresne (NC State)In the spring of 2021 the NC State University Libraries introduced the new Open Knowledge Center. Join us to learn about our work and how we partner with other units in the Libraries, across campus, and with our TRLN colleagues.

Taking Notice: Our Approach to Building Better Library Emails
Silvia Sheffield, Mia Partlow, and Dawn Pearce (NCSU)We implemented a large-scale improvement to our patrons’ experience of our libraries by updating our automated emails. Using a tone evaluation, UX principles, and user research insights, we rewrote 18 email templates. We’ll share how we wrestled with ILS limitations and why we focused on presenting information to stressed users.

Auditing Accessibility with Remote User Testing
Nora Burmeister and Felicity Walston (UNC)When COVID-19 hit, many UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries employees needed remote tasks. The UX department saw an opportunity for these employees to perform remote accessibility testing of subscription e-resources with freely available digital accessibility evaluation tools. We will outline the procedures, outcomes, and next steps of this accessibility audit.

2:00 – 2:05pm
5 Minute Break

2:05 – 2:35pm
Inclusive Description Through Improvement of Subject Vocabulary
Natalie Sommerville (Duke) and Michelle Cronquist (UNC)Descriptive metadata used in libraries relies on standards, but the creation and stewardship of metadata for description are not neutral activities. This presentation will address how TRLN librarians have been working to improve subject vocabulary and ways in which all library staff can participate in making subject terminology inclusive.

Creating Partnerships in Showcasing Innovation and Futures Thinking
Victor Betts, Adam Rogers, and Erin Willett (NC State)This presentation will share stories of the new Innovation Studio at NC State University Libraries and its partnerships with a creative agency, Special Collections, and campus community centers to develop interactive, content driven exhibits of student work with a focus on technology, innovation, reimaginings, and futures thinking.

Coming to you Live! Using Live Streaming Platforms for Student Engagement
Claire Cahoon, Colin Nickels, Lara Fountaine, and Alex Valencia (NC State)During the shift to online services, our team began live streaming events using Instagram Live, Facebook Live, and Twitch. We’ll cover which types of events worked well, technology used, lessons learned, and how we tried to create a welcoming and engaging virtual space for students to interact with the Libraries.

2:35 – 2:40pm
5 Minute Break

2:40 – 3:00pmLightning Talks Set #3
An Update on Support for Open-Access Journals at a Mission-Driven University PressKimberly Steinle (Duke)The acquisition of Demography represents a major publishing development – Duke University Press has transitioned the journal from a subscription model to a platinum open access model. We have a community-based open-access funding model in partnership with population research centers, foundations, academic research libraries, and individuals. Partners of all levels ($100 to $4,000 annually) help to cover the journal’s publishing costs and help us to disseminate its content as widely as possible.The Service One-PagerMike Nutt (NC State)The service one-pager is a simple and flexible tool that allows colleagues to develop a shared, working understanding of a new service. Attendees will learn how to use the tool and see how it was used for the launch of NC State’s new Data Experience Lab.The Departmental Blog as a Platform for Outreach, Instruction, and AdvocacyErnest Zitser (Duke)This presentation will describe the use(s) to which a departmental blog can be put. It will focus on two blog series that resulted from DUL IAS department’s choice to engage with the consequences of the COVID pandemic and the racial rights movement that followed the murder of George Floyd.

3:00 – 3:20pm
Closing Remarks
Lisa Croucher (TRLN)

Keynote Speakers

Jessamyn Stanley – speaking on Thursday, July 29 – is an author, body liberation advocate, and internationally acclaimed voice in wellness, highly sought after for her insights on 21st-century yoga and intersectional identity. Stanley is the author of Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance and Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get on the Mat. Love Your Body.

Fred Stutzman – speaking on Friday, July 30 – is founder and CEO of Freedom, an app and website blocker to increase productivity and wellbeing by reducing digital distractions. Prior to founding Freedom, Stutzman was a researcher and faculty member at UNC-Chapel Hill and Carnegie Mellon University.

Workshops

As part of the annual meeting, we will be offering the Racial Equity Institute’s Groundwater Presentation, a workshop hosted by the Library Freedom Project about privacy and surveillance issues, and Information Access for People Incarcerated in North Carolina: A Teach-In for Academic Librarians. You are able to register for each of these workshops via the registration form. Although Groundwater will not be recorded, the other two workshops will be recorded and available for people who cannot attend live.

Privacy in the Library: Understanding the Issues and Working on Practical Strategies for ChangeMonday, July 19, 10:00am – 12:00pmRecording and slidesPrivacy is one of the core values of librarianship, but often our practices don’t line up with our ethics. In this workshop, we’ll be talking about how to bridge that gap with Alison Macrina of Library Freedom Project. Alison will give an overview of privacy issues in libraries, covering vendors, library websites, public computers, and more. She’ll talk about our rights and responsibilities in protecting patron information, how to talk about and teach privacy to various stakeholders, and other steps to better privacy practices that can create a culture of privacy in the library. This workshop will be partly interactive; participants are asked to come ready to share their own experiences and ask questions.Information Access for People Incarcerated in North Carolina: A Teach-In for Academic LibrariansTuesday, July 20, 10:00am – 11:00amRecording and related linksBiff Hollingsworth, Collecting and Public Programming Archivist, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries will lead a short workshop meant to introduce fellow information professionals to the landscape of information access for people incarcerated in North Carolina. The session will include information on becoming involved in prison support work and discussion about the potential role of academic librarians in information mutual aid.Racial Equity Institute Groundwater PresentationWednesday, July 21, 9:00am – 12:00pm100 participant capREI organizers will use stories and data to present a perspective that racism is fundamentally structural in nature. By examining characteristics of modern-day racial inequity, the presentation introduces participants to an analysis that most find immediately helpful and relevant.

Communication During the Annual Meeting

You can email events@trln.org with any questions, but we have also setup a Slack channel to allow attendees to chat with each other and receive announcements from organizers.

How to Join Slack

You can join the TRLN Slack workspace to chat with other attendees, report issues to organizers, or get updates.

To join, go to https://join.slack.com/t/trln/signup. If you already have a Slack account, you can add the TRLN workspace at https://trln.slack.com/signin#/signin.

Once signed into Slack, join the #annual-meeting channel by selecting “Add channels” then “Browse all channels”. Select “Join” for the #annual-meeting channel.

#annual-meeting should now display in your list of channels. Select it and say hello to fellow attendees! Throughout the TRLN Annual Meeting you can chat with attendees about the sessions taking place and ask organizers questions. Organizers will also post announcements to this channel.

Respectful Space

TRLN is dedicated to providing a harassment-free space for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, physical appearance, age, race, ethnicity, political affiliation, national origin, or religion—and not limited to these aspects. Our consortium does not tolerate any form of harassment. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate at any TRLN event. Any participants violating this policy may, at the discretion of the organizer or facilitator, be asked to leave a TRLN event. Read the full Respectful Space Statement.

TRLN Discovery Metadata Team Meeting
2021-08-12 14:00 - 15:00, 2021-10-14 14:00 - 15:00

Electronic Resources Management Working Group Meeting
2021-08-27 13:30 - 16:00, 2021-10-29 13:30 - 16:00

Advisory Council Meeting
2021-09-10 09:00 - 10:30

Copyright regulations and libraries: The CASE Act and how to make your voice heard
2021-09-22 16:00 - 17:00
The Library Copyright Institute, in cooperation with TRLN and ASERL, invites participation from librarians and archivists in a copyright regulations workshop on September 22, 2021 at 4:00 pm.

The workshop, “Copyright regulations and libraries: The CASE Act and how to make your voice heard” is aimed at helping librarians understand the copyright regulatory process and how they can help inform and shape those rules in the future. The focus of this session is in particular on recent proposed rules for a new copyright small claims system (the CASE Act) that affect libraries.

Register to receive the Zoom link. You may register for the workshop at any time.

The Library Copyright Institute is a project to develop a program of systematic, deep instruction in copyright law for librarians. The Institute is specifically targeted at training librarians at institutions with fewer resources and no copyright expert on staff.

Contact events@trln.org for more information.

Building a Better Budget: Managing Resources in Your Library
2021-09-29 10:30 - 12:00
Register for Zoom

TRLN is offering a 2 part series about creating budgets and resource planning within libraries. Ann Wolfe, Duke University’s Associate University Librarian for Administrative Services and Joe White, NC State Libraries’ Director of Finance and Business will lead both sessions. Reach out to kelly@trln.org with any questions.

Overview Session September 29 10:30am – 12pm

The first session will provide an overview of what a budget is, different types of funds that could make up a budget, how to ensure the budget is aligned with strategic goals, and decision-making under challenging conditions. The content for this session will be broadly applicable for staff seeking to understand and create budgets or to staff who are interested in this topic. There is not a cap on attendees for this overview session. The last 20 minutes of this session will explain the expectations for the second session and offer information on how to participate.

Register for the first session at https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcOuurj0rHtCzVyNFyR4ORdZQ1AqtY6rs.

Application Session October 27 10:30am – 12pm

For a subset of participants from the first session, the second part will focus on applying the knowledge learned in the previous session. Participants will be expected to use either a real scenario from their work or a project they are interested in to create a budget and offer a brief 5-minute or less presentation. We encourage presentations to be a work in progress so Ann Wolfe and Joe White can offer their feedback and participants will leave with a working draft of a project budget.

Collections Interest Group
2021-10-08 15:00 - 16:30

Employee Orientation
2021-10-13 11:00 - 12:00
You are invited to attend a virtual Employee Orientation! This event will be held via Zoom. Register for the Zoom meeting to receive the meeting link and additional information.

While this orientation is designed for “new” employees, we welcome participation by anyone who works in a TRLN library and who might want a refresher. It is a fun and informal introduction to the people, priorities, and activities of the consortium. Attendees will learn about the services that TRLN provides and learn about ways to get involved in numerous areas of collaboration. This is an excellent opportunity to build connections with a community beyond your home library and institution.We plan to offer an additional orientation session in the 2021–2022 year for any who are unable to attend the October session.

Solr Workshop
2021-10-21 10:30 - 12:00
Register at: https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qc-ysqDIvHdUf3_lrWIpxWqnTBj8_UmFR.

TRLN is hosting a Solr workshop that seeks to help library staff query our shared Solr index to export data sets for more nuanced analysis.

The workshop will cover these topics:

Accessing the Solr index for querying via Solr admin or URLhttps://solr.apache.org/guide/6_6/query-screen.html#query-screen Overview of the TRLN Discovery Solr schemaIntroduction to Solr parametersHow to find all IDsFor example, I want to find all IDs for NCCU and save them locallySearch by OCLC numberSearch by languageFor example, I want to find the number of documents in Arabic shared across TRLNSearch by notesFor example, I want to find all the Solr documents that have the note “From the private library of Naum Korzhavin.”Facets in Solr (https://solr.apache.org/guide/6_6/faceting.html) Find records in your institution’s ILS, but not in TRLN Discovery

We are still developing the content for this workshop and want your feedback about what you hope to focus on and learn about. Reach out to kelly@trln.org and genia@trln.org if you have ideas on what we should include in this workshop.

Building a Better Budget: Managing Resources in Your Library
2021-10-27 10:30 - 12:00
TRLN is offering a 2 part series about creating budgets and resource planning within libraries. Ann Wolfe, Duke University’s Associate University Librarian for Administrative Services and Joe White, NC State Libraries’ Director of Finance and Business will lead both sessions.

The first session on September 29 provided an overview of what a budget is, different types of funds that could make up a budget, how to ensure the budget is aligned with strategic goals, and decision-making under challenging conditions. The content for this session was broadly applicable for staff seeking to understand and create budgets or to staff who are interested in this topic.

Attending the first session is a requirement of participating in the second session. Reach out to kelly@trln.org with any questions.

Application Session October 27 10:30am – 12pm

For a subset of participants from the first session, the second part will focus on applying the knowledge learned in the previous session. Participants will be expected to use either a real scenario from their work or a project they are interested in to create a budget and offer a brief 5-minute or less presentation. We encourage presentations to be a work in progress so Ann Wolfe and Joe White can offer their feedback and participants will leave with a working draft of a project budget.

Introduction

Your library needs new ideas as it continues to grapple with the impact of COVID-19 and the opportunities that the crisis presents. You are encouraged to create and submit requests for funding new projects, creative experimentations, and new or different approaches to services, collections, use of technology, or other challenges.

The Task

Develop an idea for a new project and present the idea to gain funding approval. Create a budget for this idea and be prepared to effectively present the idea to the larger group.

Prepare a 5-minute or less presentation (think “sales pitch”) of your idea that details your project, why it should be pursued, and its resource needs. Apply what was learned during the first Building a Better Budget training session to bolster your presentation.

Helpful touch points may include:

What significant need will this project meet?How does it strategically align with the mission and goals of your organization?What resources are needed for the idea to be successful?

Pursuing a Career in Academic Libraries: a Discussion with Human Resources Leaders
2021-11-04 18:00 - 19:30, 2021-11-08 12:00 - 13:30
TRLN invites students and recent graduates to join us for a panel discussion on finding, pursuing, and securing a job in an academic library. Human Resources professionals from Duke, NC Central, NC State, and UNC-Chapel Hill libraries will share their insights on resumes, cover letters, interviews, professional networking, and practical experiences that can help you find a position that fits your interests, skills, and talents. We are offering two iterations of this webinar in order to accommodate various class and work schedules. The panel discussion will last approximately 60 minutes, with an additional 30 minutes for questions and further discussion.

Register for Thursday, November 4, 6:00-7:30 pm. Register for Monday, November 8, 12:00-1:30 pm.

If you are interested in particular topics or have specific questions for the panel, please send them to events@trln.org. A recording will be made available.

Blacklight Summit
2021-11-08 14:00 - 2021-11-10 16:30
TRLN will host an online Blacklight Summit, Monday, November 8 through Wednesday, November 10 via Zoom. The Summit aims to bring together institutions and developers to share knowledge and assemble a collaborative set of solutions based on overlapping needs.

Register for the summit to receive Zoom information and other details.

Register

Please review the code of conduct and respectful space statement.

Agenda

The full agenda is available at: https://bit.ly/blacklight2021

The agenda for the Blacklight Summit is subject to change up to and throughout the event, but we will do our best to keep to the blocks of times listed in the agenda and on this page.

Thursday, November 4 from 1:00 – 5:00pm ET

Pre-summit Workshop: Customizing Blacklight: Approaches and Best Practices

Capped at 30 people and requires registration at https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqc-6prjwqHd2oMpYzgwSD1fe1mG_hPnQ5

This pre-summit workshop will be geared towards developers of Blacklight and will do a deep dive into approaches and recommend best practices for customizing Blacklight applications. We will discuss a range of topics, including styling and theming, customizing discovery experiences, and working with Solr. This workshop was offered during the 2020 Blacklight Summit.

Monday, November 8 from 2:00 – 5:00pm ET

Reference the agenda document for sessions.

Tuesday, November 9 from 11am – 2:30pm ET

Reference the agenda document for sessions.

Wednesday, November 10 from 2:00 – 4:30pm ET

Reference the agenda document for sessions.

Governing Board Meeting
2021-11-15 10:30 - 12:00
