Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries

Register Now! Spring 2025 Member Meeting

Save the Data: Sourcing, Securing, and Recovering Disappearing Information

The Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries, SEMLOL, is excited to announce our Spring membership meeting, taking place on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from 2-4 p.m. on Zoom.

During this meeting, we will be having a member of the Data Rescue Project team in to give a brief overview of the Project and their mission. After that, they will be walking us through the nuts and bolts of doing data rescue and/or metadata clean-up events so that you will be able to run these yourself.

The final 30-40 minutes of our meeting will be dedicated to getting to work on doing some data rescue and metadata clean-up of our own! We will break out into Zoom rooms to discuss further issues if you don't feel ready to begin, with one room left open for those who are ready to begin doing active work where they can pop in and ask questions as needed.

You do not need to be a librarian to join us for this meeting or to be a great help to this Project! While this work is a great fit for the skill set of librarians, there is a lot of work to be done that does not require any advanced technical expertise, so please share widely with those you know to be interested in ensuring continued access to public data.

We hope to see you all there as we work together on this timely matter!
Please register using this Google Form so we can send you the link to our meeting.

(Re)Join Us!

The SEMLOL board is inviting libraries to engage with SEMLOL as either full or liaison members. While our full members consist of academic libraries in the southeastern Michigan area, we acknowledge and value the input and perspective of the varied libraries that make up our liaison membership.

Together, we will work to connect members of our profession by offering low/no cost professional development and networking opportunities, with your input and participation. There has never been and will continue to not be any fees required from our members. The only commitment that we ask is that a good faith effort is made to send at least one staff member (empowered to cast their organization's votes) to the spring meeting each year.

To learn more about our organization, please review our newly revised organizational guidelines. If you would like to become involved, or continue your institution's involvement with SEMLOL, please complete our membership form.