SSDN Upcoming Events

[Keila Zayas Ruiz]

 

DLIS Discussion: Florida Digital Initiatives Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 2-3pm ET   Join the Florida Electronic Library Administrator, Florida Statewide Digital Initiative Consultant, and Sunshine State Digital Network Program Director and the new Society of Florida Archivists President. Learn about their roles, current digital projects in Florida, and how librarians can become involved with the Society of Florida Archivists. Take advantage of this opportunity to hear how experts in the field can assist your library with digital initiatives and professional development.   Register Here     Discussion: AI Bots and Repositories Wednesday, August 20, 2025, 3-4pm ET Increasing demand for training AI models has led to an increase in bot traffic to many repositories hosting open access resources. Join us for a discussion on the challenges posed by this increased demand to professionals supporting the technical infrastructure for these repositories. Commiserate and share solutions with colleagues.   Register Here     Webinar: Developing and Managing Archives and Digital Initiatives Internships Thursday, August 28, 2025, 2-3pm ET   Internships allow students to gain new insights into the nature of professional practice by engaging in meaningful work under the mentorship of experienced and knowledgeable professionals. They provide students with a unique opportunity to connect the skills and knowledge gained in their education with practical experience supervised by a professional archivist or librarian. Hear from three panelists about designing, managing, and participating in internship programs in archives and digital initiatives and how you can implement a program at your institution.   Register Here     TBLC Workshop: Copyright for Digital Libraries and Introduction to Scanning Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 9am-5pm ET   Copyright for Digitization Copyright in libraries can be confusing, especially when it comes to knowing your rights concerning the digitization of archival and special collections. This workshop will address basic copyright considerations and fair use cases that can be made when assessing the copyright status and access of digitized collections online.   Keila Zayas Ruiz is the Program Director for the Sunshine State Digital Network, since 2017 she has been working with institutions from around the state of Florida to help them share their digital cultural heritage collections to the Digital Public Library of America. She manages the day-to-day operations of the network, conducts outreach, and training related to digital collections, copyright, and metadata creation. She holds a MLIS from the Florida State University.   Introduction to Scanning Workshop Overview: This workshop will provide an introduction to: Digitization equipment and software options Digitization standards and best practices Materials selection and handling Common and less common digitization scenarios The second half of the digitization portion will include a hands-on component where participants will have the opportunity to utilize scanning and photography equipment. Participants are welcome to bring a few objects from their own collections to use during the hands-on portion of the workshop.   Stuart Rochford is the Imaging Librarian at Florida State University Libraries’ Digital Library Center, where he has worked since 2011. He holds a BFA in Photography and Graphic Design and an MLIS degree from FSU. Prior to his library career, Stuart worked as a professional photographer and graphic designer. He is a certified Phase One Cultural Heritage Specialist and has toured numerous digital production studios across the country, observing industry best practices and innovative approaches to digitization.   Register Here     Webinar: Introduction to Project Management Thursday, September 25, 2025, 2-3pm ET   This session will address all stages of digital project management, with a focus on the planning stages. A majority of the work when it comes to a digitization project is in the planning stages, answering these questions: -What are you going to digitize? -How are you going to digitize it? -Who is going to do all the work? This session will look at how to define and map out your project, exploring tools that will help in all stages of a project as well as ways to continually evaluate your plan once a project gets up and running.   Register Here     Workshop: Accidental Archivist, Fort Lauderdale Thursday, November 13, 2025, 9am-4:30pm   Join us for a free, day-long, interactive workshop to understand the basics of physical and digital archives. This workshop will cover best practices relating to collection development, processing, description, access, and preservation of both physical and digital collections. Presenters will provide different approaches that will take into account varying resources and organization sizes. Come learn the basics of archives management with the Sunshine State Digital Network. Lunch will be provided. Presenters: Krystal Thomas, Florida State University and David Benjamin, University of Central Florida When: Thursday, November 13, 2025, 9am-4:30pm Where: African American Research Library​​ & Cultural Center, 2650 Sistrunk Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311   Register Here     Webinar: Copyright For Digital Libraries Thursday, December 11, 2025, 2-3:30pm ET   Copyright in libraries can be confusing, especially when it comes to knowing your rights concerning the digitization of archival and special collections. This one-hour webinar will address basic copyright considerations and fair use cases that can be made when assessing the copyright status and access of digitized collections online.   Register Here