April 18th, 2012

The TCDL Planning Committee and the Texas Digital Library have posted the list of presentations and abstracts for the 2012 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, taking place May 24-25 in Austin.

You can visit this preliminary list of presentations, posters and workshops at the following link: https://conferences.tdl.org/TCDL/TCDL2012/schedConf/presentations. A final program schedule will be available in the coming weeks.

On Friday afternoon, three Texas institutions will demonstrate how Vireo is being utilized at their institution. There will also be a Vireo poster presentation, clarifying the links between the VUG and TDL.

If you have not yet registered for TCDL 2012, early registration ends April 23rd.

Any questions about TCDL 2012 can be directed to TDL staff at info@tdl.org.

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April 17th, 2012

From the February TDL Update Newsletter: “On February 23-24, TDL program coordinator Ryan Steans and web writer Kristi Park attended the annual conference of the Texas ETD Association to present an update on development and usage of the Vireo ETD Submission and Management System….TDL’s poster presentation provided an update on Vireo development plans, as well as information about schools currently using the software. The poster is viewable on the TDL website.”

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October 31st, 2011

Those of you unable to attend the recent VUG meeting in Austin, Texas, may wish to see the agenda and presentations from the meeting, summarized on the Meetings page of the VUG Blog.

Institutions are also encouraged to update your institutional profile at this time. Profiles from 2010, as well as a template, are currently available on the VUG Institutional Profile Page.

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October 31st, 2011

Reprinted from the October 2011 issue of TDL Update:

The TDL development team is preparing to release Vireo1.2, an incremental release that fixes two bugs and provides some log enhancements to enable better troubleshooting by TDL support staff. The new release contains fixes for two persistent bugs, as well as other miscellaneous fixes. The issues addressed in the new release are described below:
• Previously, a fatal error was produced when a student submitter entered a full birth date in the “birth year” field. Now, if a submitter incorrectly enters the full birthdate, he or she receives a validation message asking the user to correct the field.
• Previously, when an administrator edited an abstract, the action would cause certain special characters to become corrupted. The problem was identified and solved by Bill Ingram of the University of Illinois.
• TDL has made several behind-the-scenes improvements, including enhancements to logging and documentation, and the copyright and software version were added to the interface footer.
A staging version of Vireo 1.2 was set up for testing by UT Austin in mid-October, and will be rolled out to other member institutions in the coming weeks. The decision to move forward with the two high-priority bug fixes was made in collaboration with the co-chairs of the Vireo User Group, Stephanie Larrison (Texas State University) and Laura Hammons (Texas A&M University).

Future Vireo Development
Substantial development on Vireo is planned for the coming academic year and was discussed at the Vireo User Group meeting on October 26.The first step in that development will come later in the fall of 2011, when the team will create a plan for making internal improvements to the Vireo codebase that will enhance TDL’s ability to respond more quickly to bug fixes and make feature enhancements.

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September 29th, 2011

On October 25th and 26th, the Texas Digital Library will be hosting a 2-day series of Working Group and User Group meetings in Austin on the University of Texas campus.

We invite members to join us for the public meetings of TDL Working Groups and Users Groups. All meetings will be held in the Perry-Castañeda Library at UT Austin. (See schedule below.)

October 25th:
• 8 AM – 12 PM: Metadata Working Group (PCL 1.124) – please contact info@tdl.org prior to planning to attend

October 26th:
• 8 AM – 12 PM: Vireo Users Group (PCL 1.124)
• NEW! 1 PM – 5 PM: TDL Services Users Group (PCL 1.124)

In conjunction with the group meetings, the TDL has scheduled 2 days of training on October 27th and 28th:

October 27th: Introduction to DSpace led by Mira Greene and Sarah Sutton
October 28th: ETD Submission and Management with Vireo led by Ryan Steans

Registration:

To RSVP for any TDL October Working group meetings, or to register for training, please fill out our webform: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DSXNKTH

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