Please join us for the first-ever Learn@DLF!
To cultivate creative training and professional development opportunities stemming from our past three successful DLF Forum Pre-Conferences, we are excited to host Learn@DLF on Sunday, October 14.
Unlike the conference- and unconference-style pre-Forum events of recent years, Learn@DLF will be structured entirely as a workshop day. Through engaging, hands-on sessions, attendees will gain experience with new tools and resources, exchange ideas, and develop and share expertise with fellow community members.
What workshops are being offered?
Thirteen workshops on a variety of subjects are being brought to Learn@DLF by teachers and facilitators from the DLF community. Five tracks will be going throughout the day, but feel free to mix and match. Workshops are either 5 hours, 3 hours, or 2 hours in length.
Assessment
- 9am-3:30pm: Metadata Analysis Workshop (#s1a)
- (Cancelled) 3:45pm-5:40pm: HuMetricsHSS: The Value of Values (#s2a)
Open-Source Tools
- 9am-11am: Human scale web collecting for individuals and institutions (Webrecorder workshop) (#s1b)
- (Cancelled) 11:15am-3:30pm: ISLE: Islandora Installation Simplified (#s2b)
- 3:45pm-5:40pm: Digital Mapping Ecosystems (#s3b)
Advocacy + Info Literacy
- 9am-12:10pm: The Argument Clinic: Elements of Persuasion for Librarians, Archivists, and Library Technologists (#s1c)
- 1:30pm-3:30pm: Unpacking the Algorithms That Shape Our UX: Algorithmic Awareness as a Form of Information Literacy (#s2c)
- 3:45pm-5:40pm: Privacy Literacy Instruction (s3c)
Skill-Building
- 9am-12:10pm:Teaching the DLF Project Managers Toolkit (#s1d)
- 1:30pm-3:30pm:Digital Library Pedagogy Road Test & Idea Fest (#s2d)
- 3:45pm-5:40pm: Creating self-updating reports from 5 to 5000 datapoints: Using R and R Markdown in a library workflow (s3d)
Diversity + Access
- 9am-3:30pm: Design for Diversity: Towards More Inclusive Information Systems (#s1e)
- 3:45pm-5:40pm: Born Digital Access Bootcamp (#s2e)
View the Learn@DLF 2018 schedule.
What will it cost?
Registration will be set at $100, and includes a full day of workshops (build your own schedule!) as well as breakfast, lunch, and copious coffee breaks to fuel your work. Some workshops may require additional books or materials; instructors will contact participants about these in advance of the event.
Sign up
Add Learn@DLF to your ticket when you register for the Forum and/or Digital Preservation 2018. If you would like to sign up but have already registered, please contact us at forum@diglib.org with your workshop choices!
Attendance of Learn@DLF is welcome regardless of attendance at the DLF Forum.
Share your experiences on Twitter with #LearnatDLF!
Thank you to our planning committee members!
The 2018 DLF Forum and Learn@DLF are community and practitioner-based events that would not be possible without thoughtful and engaged participation from our community. Thank you!
Frequently Asked
In 2015, coinciding with a mission refinement for DLF, we hosted our first Liberal Arts Colleges Pre-Conference. This was meant to foster conversation, build community, and serve as a kind of “on-ramp” for our newest type of member organization—the liberal arts colleges that had become a sudden, positive presence in DLF. We ran another LAC Pre-Conference in 2016, bringing student-centered archival issues to the fore with an important keynote by Jarrett Drake. From the conversations, ideas, and circumstances of the 2016 Pre-Conference and election-year Forum, we issued an open invitation to the community, to use the DLF as a platform and a framework for action.
It was in that spirit that DLF partnered with the HBCU Library Alliance for a 2017 LACs-HBCUs Pre-Conference focusing on digital pedagogy and career pathways for students and LIS professionals from under-represented groups. Almost all 2015-17 pre-conference participants have stayed on for the Forum itself, and many have started or joined working groups and become active members of the DLF community, changing our conversations for the better. On-ramps work! But intentional work toward inclusion and integration of perspectives in our main event seems even better.
Meanwhile, the Forum has been growing, and demand to offer and participate in workshop-style sessions has grown with it. There’s no longer space for as many hands-on and multiple-hour sessions as we would like. Enter Learn@DLF.
We’ll be looking to the community to help us make sure there’s something for everyone there, no matter where you work or what your professional role may be!
We’ll still encourage submissions of workshops and hands-on training proposals for the DLF Forum, but they will be limited to the kind of thing that can be done in a one-hour session. Come to Learn@DLF to really dig in.
Think so? Stay tuned!