February 2019

TLDR:

• The 2019 TRLN Annual Meeting will take place on Thursday, July 11, at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Louise Bernard, Director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center.
• TRLN has pledged financial support for Project ReShare's work building an open source library resource sharing platform.
• TRLN's new shared index and Project ReShare were both highlighted at Code4Lib 2019. 
• Coming in April: Cultural Humility workshop
• Ever wondered how to reserve meeting space at the Frontier? Click here.

Save the Date for the TRLN Annual Meeting!

This year, the TRLN Annual Meeting will take place on Thursday, July 11 at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill, NC. 

Our keynote speaker will be Louise Bernard, founding Director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. Dr. Bernard was formerly Director of Exhibitions at the New York Public Library. As a Senior Content Developer and Interpretive Planner in the New York office of the museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, she worked on the design team that developed the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, along with other international projects. She previously served as Curator of Prose and Drama for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, and as Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University. She received her Ph.D. in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale, and her current research engages with the literary archive, material culture, museology, public history, and interpretive planning and design. She is a scholarly advisor to the International African American Museum in Charleston, SC, and sits on the Board of the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association.

A call for proposals, registration details, and the lunchtime program will be announced in the coming months.

Mark your calendars and plan to join us at the Friday Center on July 11!

Questions? Contact Events@trln.org. 

TRLN Pledges Support for Project ReShare

Project ReShare, a community of library consortia, vendors, and service providers, is building an open source library research sharing platform. TRLN is supporting that work with financial support, in addition to having representation on Project ReShare's steering committee. Read more about this partnership by clicking here.

TRLN and Project ReShare at Code4Lib 2019

Code4Lib, a community of developers and technologists for libraries, museums, and archives, held its annual conference in San Jose, CA from February 20-22. The conference program included a presentation and a poster session about the TRLN Discovery project, as well as a presentation about Project ReShare, a community of organizations (including TRLN) committed to an open approach to library resource sharing systems. 
Click the following links to watch the presentations and view the poster:

• Presentation: "Consortial discovery and resource sharing: Making it happen with (mostly) standard tools," by Emily Lynema, Department Head, Information Technology, NCSU (presentation starts at 52:29)
• Poster: "Need a Shared Index? TRLN Discovery Project: Software and AWS Architecture Overview" by Genia Kazymova, Applications Developer, TRLN. Accompanying handout is available here. 
• Presentation: "Project ReShare," by Jill Morris (PALCI) and Kristen Wilson (Index Data) (presentation starts at 1:02:52) 

Coming in April: Cultural Humility Workshop

• Gain a deeper understanding of the cultural humility framework
• Name and reflect on their own privilege and identities
• Get practice in interrupting scenarios of bias and problematic behavior 
• Receive resources and recommendations for continuing to engage in cultivating cultural humility

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