Session 3I | A Place for Discord: Pivoting live events to digital platforms in the age of COVID (and beyond?)

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2021-05-26

Authors

Covington, Elle
Parker, Katy
Bastone, Gina

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Texas Digital Library

Abstract

The 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.

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TCDL 2021 Session 3I, Presentation 3, Wednesday, 5/26/2021, 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm | Speakers: Elle Covington, Liaison Librarian for Social Work, Kinesiology & Health Education, and Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin; Katy Parker, Humanities Liaison Librarian to the Fine Arts , University of Texas at Austin; Gina Bastone, Humanities Librarian for English Literature and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin | Moderated by Sasha Rodriguez, Senior Librarian Liaison to Art, Music, Film, and Education, University of Texas at Dallas | View the recording at https://youtu.be/lCApRtPw2VQ

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