Working with Team DLF
| “Reach out to DLF staff and former leaders to find out as much information [as you can]. They are your best resource when first getting started.” —Cristela Garcia-Spitz |
| “DLF is amazing—don’t hesitate to reach out to them if you have an idea!”—Elizabeth Joan Kelly |
| “They email back so fast. It’s wild.”—Rachel Appel |
The Digital Library Federation is purposefully lightly staffed. This means that we welcome your creative thinking about the best ways to get things done—no process or system is set in stone, and you are not required to use technologies we offer or work to a certain timeline in order to get our support. (We are also allergic to red tape.)
How We Can Help
Team DLF is always available to help with:
- Forming new groups and initiatives, and discussing needed levels of DLF support
- Facilitating collaborations with other DLF groups and committees, and making connections beyond the immediate DLF community, including (among others) to the NDSA
- Creating editable pages on the DLF website and wiki, or creating and hosting other web resources
- Communications and visual branding, including signal-boosting: promoting your group’s activities through DLF’s various social media channels, calendars, and lists
- Setting up an email list, scheduling a conference call, or facilitating a Twitter chat
- Options for open access publications, both online and print, including through CLIR
- Managing your data, with connections to DLF’s Github and OSF repositories
- Planning and organizing an in-person meet-up at the annual DLF Forum
- Creating cross-pollinator opportunities to connect your conference or community to ours
- Providing limited financial sponsorship or in-kind contributions to good causes
- Brainstorming next steps for your group and consulting on ways to build and maintain momentum
- Learning from each other, and answering any questions about DLF you may have!
We happily support and amplify far more community-based activity than is represented elsewhere on this wiki or on our website. If you're doing great work that needs a boost but not a "home," don't hesitate to contact us. We won't co-opt or DLF-brand you.
Contacting DLF
You can always reach individual staff members directly, but we encourage first contacts to the whole team, at info@diglib.org.
Table of Contents
- About DLF and the Organizers' Toolkit
- Working with Team DLF
- General Facilitation and Goal-Setting
- Facilitating for Diversity and Inclusion
- Preventing and Managing Burnout
- Gathering Info/Building Enthusiasm
- Planning an In-Person Meetup
- Setting Up Year-Round Meetings
- Talking and Writing
- Organizing and Sharing Your Work