TCDL 2025

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This 2-hour workshop will give participants the knowledge and tools they need to understand users and improve their digital collection and discovery environments. In this workshop, participants will learn about User Experience (UX) testing and how it can contribute to improved user-centered design of our patron-facing digital interfaces. They will learn the different types of UX studies and when they should be used. They will learn how to create a test plan for a UX study and have the opportunity to draft a plan for a current collection or project. Participants will also observe or participate in example study sessions conducted with the group. This workshop is intended for anyone who creates, publishes, or manages digital content. There are no prerequisites or knowledge needed prior to participating. If you have a laptop, you are encouraged to bring it with you, but it is not a requirement.

As adoption of Fedora 6.x continues to grow, the Fedora program has been working diligently to unite the community by bringing together users to share updates, discuss challenges, and collaborate on future projects. This Birds-of-a-Feather session offers an opportunity for Fedora users of all levels to connect, exchange insights, and explore best practices across all versions of Fedora.

We’ll start with a brief community update, highlighting recent technology developments, roadmap milestones, and new engagement efforts. From there, we’ll open the floor for attendees to share institutional experiences, success stories, and lessons learned. Whether you're a longtime Fedora user, just getting started, or exploring how Fedora fits into your digital repository infrastructure, this session provides a welcoming space to learn from peers and help shape Fedora’s future.

Re-engineering Search in FromThePage
By: Sara Brumfield & Ben Brumfield

Searching archival collections across diverse institutions is challenging. Volunteers, genealogists, and librarians each have unique needs, from locating relevant crowdsourcing projects to tracing ancestral names or finding specific documents via metadata and call numbers. Our collections range from untranscribed scans to fully indexed texts enhanced by OCR and HTR systems, LLMs, or manual efforts.

This webinar will explain how we consolidated five distinct MySQL-backed search functionalities into a single search engine while still respecting organization scope and privacy restrictions.

Highlights include:

Rationale: Insights from user feedback and group meetings that prompted the integration.
Live Demo: Explore the new range of searches, from site-wide project discovery to detailed searches within an organization’s collections.
Challenges: Addressing issues like line-spanning words, markup variations, and multilingual content.
Emerging Issues: Adjusting to a unified search that demands detailed context for each result.
Results and Process: How last summer’s analytics led to surprising insights, user stories, and the development of a new product requirement document.
Future Possibilities: Opportunities for thematic, cross-institutional search portals.

Using Alma/Primo for Digital Collection Discovery and Access
By: Melanie Cofield & Misu Kim

This session focuses on demonstrating various ways academic libraries are leveraging the Alma/Primo Library Services Platform (LSP) to support digital collection discovery and access.

Over the last couple of decades, the go-to solutions for digital collection management and access among TDL members have been open source digital repository platforms and products like Avalon, DSpace, Islandora, and Samvera. A more recent development is the wide adoption of the Alma/Primo LSP among TDL member institutions. This is a product developed and hosted by Ex Libris, and the features within this platform to support digital collection management, discovery, access, and preservation are rapidly expanding.

As Alma/Primo becomes an integral part of our digital collection landscape, it seems timely to discuss how this system’s features complement those of others, share various approaches currently being employed (such as digital collection migrations, metadata harvesting, etc.), and consider possibilities on the near horizon.

Wanna talk about imaging and digitization? Come join the discussion about topics and interests with the region and conference community.