Name: P1 TCDL 2025 Opening Plenary & Keynote
Start: 2025-05-20T14:00:00-0500
End: 2025-05-20T15:30:00-0500

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Tuesday May 20, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm CDT

Big Tex

The Opening Plenary session includes a welcome from TDL’s Governing Board, the TDL Awards Ceremony, and the Keynote Address by Dr. Katherine Skinner.

Keynote Title: Navigating the Now: Shared Values as Our Compass for Community Action

Keynote Address Description: 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, Katherine 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.

Moderators

Heidi Winkler

Digital Services Librarian, Texas Tech University

Heidi Winkler is the Digital Services Librarian at the Texas Tech University Libraries. She earned her Master of Science in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Heidi curates the ThinkTech institutional repository faculty research collection and runs TTU's Pressbooks... Read More →

Speakers

Kristi Park

Executive Director, Texas Digital Library

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Julie Mosbo Ballestro

University Librarian & Assistant Provost, Texas A&M University Libraries

Kate McNally Carter

Open Education Librarian, University of Houston

Kate is the Open Education Librarian in the Open Education Services Department at University of Houston. In her role, she helps manage the Open Education Incentive Program, assists faculty in the adoption, adaptation, and creation of OER, and consults and partners with instructors... Read More →