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Item Session 3I | A Place for Discord: Pivoting live events to digital platforms in the age of COVID (and beyond?)(Texas Digital Library, 2021-05-26) Covington, Elle; Parker, Katy; Bastone, GinaThe COVID-induced scramble to pivot to virtual spaces has forced innovative and creative implementation of digital tools. The standard tools have left many in the library community Zoomed out, leading us to explore other avenues to fulfill the ongoing need for online-only library events. Out of a desire to continue annually held Wikipedia edit-a-thons in this new virtual domain, we decided to shift to Discord, an online collaborative chat platform originally created for gamers and popular with today’s students. On March 11, nearly a year after the shutdown, we combined two Wikipedia edit-a-thons into a same-day, two-channel, side-by-side virtual event.