Discussion Points:

How is everyone doing? Have you found a rhythm over the last couple of weeks?
How are you supporting your users?
Share tools/workflows and tips
Share trainings:
- Submission Form: https://forms.gle/g1o1iG45e54WqSPz5
- List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b3ohpKMuYQMe0K_DgFyvTM2Ks7ulUjb_MN0K80EgsXY/edit?usp=sharing

Notes

How is everyone doing? Have you found a rhythm over the last couple of weeks?
- Still adjusting and trying to find the right routines
- Hanging in there. Many people miss being in their library spaces.
- Some have essential personnel doing space checks and emptying dehumidifiers.
- Some are on a rotating schedule. 5 staff working for two weeks in the library, then at home for two weeks and switching with a different set of 5 staff members.
How are you supporting your users?
- COVID-19 community experience collection is taking place at many libraries.
  - Good way to keep engagement with community members and to collect content for our collections in real-time.
- Increase in use of collections, most requests have been able to be filled using existing digital collections
- Marketing class used breakout rooms in Zoom where they could explore different digital library materials (historical ads, etc.) and came back to discuss with the rest of the group
  - Some materials were videotaped using a cell phone in preparation for the class when access to the building was still available, this was used to kind of mimic the experience a student would have interacting with the materials in person with commentary about the materials.
- Scavenger hunt-type of assignment for online classes
- Trying to find ways to support online instruction through the summer.
- So far, every request has been able to be completed through our online materials for university archives. Special collections has had one request that required an in person trip.
What projects are you working on?
- Adding oral histories
- Transcription of handwritten materials, OCR for text materials that don’t have it already, photo editing to improve image quality (removing frames, cropping, etc.),
- Now able to address backlogs and low priority projects that were on the backburner before.
- Investigating how to crowdsource some work using students in classes to work on some transcriptions locally
- Potentially exploring crowdsourcing tools like zooniverse for wider community engagement
Share trainings with each other:
- Upcoming DPLA webinar about their work with wikimedia: https://dpla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mAIfVm3xS_ykVRTO09ndwg
  - Some background on the project: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Digital_Public_Library_of_America
  - The project is focused on making our collections more discoverable by adding images to relevant wikipedia articles
- Other upcoming DPLA events: https://pro.dp.la/events/workshops
- We created a submission form for us to be able to share useful trainings with each other. These will populate a spreadsheet that will be available to view on the Events page of the SSDN website.
  - Submission Form: https://forms.gle/g1o1iG45e54WqSPz5
  - List: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b3ohpKMuYQMe0K_DgFyvTM2Ks7ulUjb_MN0K80EgsXY/edit?usp=sharing
- The DLF Community Calendar is another great resource to check for digital library related training and events: https://digital-conferences-calendar.info/
Share tools/workflows and tips
- Example workflows from MDPLS