Location Details

Reclaim Open Venue

University of Mary Washington
Hurley Convergence Center
1801 College Ave, Fredericksburg, VA 22401

We are excited to head back where it all began, and we look forward to celebrating in Fredericksburg, Virginia on June 5-7, 2023.

Accommodations

Best Western Fredericksburg
2205 Plank Road, Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401
• $99-$125/night for June 4-8, 2023
• Call (540) 371-5050 to reserve with “Reclaim Open”

Courtyard Marriot Fredericksburg
620 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, VA 22401
• $179/night for June 4-8, 2023
• Call (540) 373-8300 to reserve with “Reclaim Open”

Accommodations

Best Western Fredericksburg
2205 Plank Road, Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401
• $99-$125/night for June 4-8, 2023
• Call (540) 371-5050 to reserve with “Reclaim Open”

Courtyard Marriot Fredericksburg
620 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg, VA 22401
• $179/night for June 4-8, 2023
• Call (540) 373-8300 to reserve with “Reclaim Open”

Getting to Reclaim Open

When making travel plans for Reclaim Open, we recommend using the following resources:

By Plane

Dulles International Airport (IAD)
1 Saarinen Cir, Dulles, VA 20166
Directions to Venue


Richmond International Airport (RIC)
1 Richard E Byrd Terminal Dr, Richmond, VA 23250
Directions to Venue

By Train

Fredericksburg has an Amtrak train station that runs right through downtown and is roughly 7 min from the venue:

Amtrak/VRE Station (FBG)
425 Princess Anne Street
Fredericksburg, VA 22401-6067

You can take the Subway/Train from the Dulles  Airport (IAD) to Fredericksburg by following these directions.

By Car

If you plan to drive to Reclaim Open, you can find directions to the venue here. You can also use car rental services like Enterprise and Hertz, or even ride share apps like Uber and Lyft.

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Teaching for Now and Planning for Later: Balancing a User-Friendly Web and Sustainability Practices as Digital Scholarship Librarians

Ruth Carpenter and Amy Gay, Binghamton University

Binghamton University’s community of digital scholars continues to grow and evolve. Across disciplines and schools, instructors are utilizing digital platforms and multi-modal projects in new and revised courses, and researchers are creating open-access materials and a wide variety of digital research projects. As digital scholarship librarians, we are constantly finding the balance between teaching platforms that our community finds user-friendly for new learners while also teaching sustainable web practices that frequently require more technical knowledge than scholars are ready to learn. While content management systems like WordPress, Omeka, and Google Sites are integral to our toolbox of available publishing options for digital projects, and have relatively easy user interfaces, they pose problems for sustainability. For example, constant updates break plug-ins, corporate whims affect the accessibility of platforms, and new technologies change the expectations of how websites should look and ‘feel’. However, exploring new and emerging technologies and taking advantage of their ability to make the work of our faculty and students more widely available on the web is also an essential part of our mission. We are repeatedly touting the benefits of creating digital projects while also cautioning researchers and instructors about the limits of those projects. Balancing that with an eye towards the future and ensuring that content that users and creators expect to still be available poses challenges. That is especially true when first introducing digital tools. For example, when creating a WordPress page tests the limits of a new user’s technological confidence, trying to work in conversations about migration and archiving is immediately overwhelming. Given how often this occurs across faculty and students, we have developed our own evolving best practices and resources to help ease the challenges for our digital scholarship community. In this presentation, we will talk about our experience teaching digital project management principles, the best web design practices for building accessible and sustainable projects, and digital project self-awareness.