UMDCC16 Dining & Attractions

Birds-of-a-feather dinners

Join your colleagues for birds-of-a-feather dinner conversations on Wednesday evening, August 10! Sign-up sheets will be available at the registration table during the conference.

Dinner topics:

• Transforming metadata to Linked Data (led by Geri Ingram, OCLC, at Front Street Brewery)
• Accessibility considerations for digital collections (Zeke’s Island Cafe)
• Digital curation and digital preservation (Los Agaves Mexican Grill)
• Digital Public Library of America (Front Street Brewery)
• Diversity and inclusiveness in digital libraries (Zeke’s Island Cafe)
• General conversation (possible hot topics may include data migration; applying “More Product, Less Process” to digitization projects) (Los Agaves Mexican Grill)

Tours of local museums and special collections

We’ve arranged guided tours at four local cultural heritage organization on Wednesday, August 10. All tours begin at 10 am. Follow the links below to find out more about each tour and to RSVP on the Sched program page.

• Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center, Davenport Public Library
• Figge Art Museum
• German American Heritage Center
• Putnam Museum

Area restaurants and attractions

Restaurants in the Davenport area, including distances from campus.

Area attractions, including museums, parks, river tours and casinos.

Conference hotels, birds-of-a-feather dinners, tour sites and other important locations are marked on this Google map.

Centennial Bridge, Davenport, Iowa. Photo by Flickr user Amber Larson.