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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Greetings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Registration is now open for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting, August 9-11 at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Join your digital collections
colleagues in the Quad Cities for three days of networking, sharing of best practices, and hands-on learning!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://news.minitex.umn.edu/2016-upper-midwest-digital-collections-conference" target="_blank">Register now</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC16) features:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Keynote speaker Trevor Owens on IMLS's national digital platform priority<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Workshops on metadata for oral history collections, copyright, and managing born-digital content<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Presentations on a range of topics from a/v digitization to web archiving to community engagement<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Tours of local museums and archives<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting includes:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Keynote panel with Bruce Washburn and Jeff Mixter of OCLC Research and the Strategic Advisory Group for Digital Collections: "<i>CONTENTdm data refinery: A Linked
Data pilot study"</i><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A CONTENTdm Product Update and Q&A with Product Manager Shane Huddleston<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A preview of the next phase of CONTENTdm development<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Presentations from CONTENTdm users<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Registration fees:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">$55 for Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (August 9)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">$35 for workshops (August 10)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">$0 for CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting (August 10-11)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">For registration information and the full conference program, visit <a href="http://wils.org/umdcc16" target="_blank">http://wils.org/umdcc16</a>. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please note</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">: if you're attending the conference, we strongly encourage you to make your hotel reservations <i>now</i>. The John Deere Classic
golf tournament, a major stop on the PGA Tour, will be taking place in the Quad Cities at the same time as the conference, and hotels are filling up quickly. We have blocks of rooms reserved for a limited time at three hotels. For rates and reservation information,
see <a href="http://www.wils.org/news-events/wilsevents/upper-midwest-digital-collections-conference-2016/umdcc-2016-hotel/" target="_blank">http://www.wils.org/news-events/wilsevents/upper-midwest-digital-collections-conference-2016/umdcc-2016-hotel/</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The conference is organized by Minitex, WiLS, and RAILS (Reaching Across Illinois Library System), along with a regional planning committee and our local host, St. Ambrose University Library. The
CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting is sponsored by OCLC; their support means that this portion of the conference is free to current and potential CONTENTdm users.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Twitter hashtag: #UMDCC16<br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1611738179117209/">Facebook event page</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kevin Driedger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Librarian for Conservation and Digitization<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Library of Michigan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">P.O. Box 30007<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">702 W. Kalamazoo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lansing, MI 48913<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">517-373-9440<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="mailto:driedgerk@michigan.gov">driedgerk@michigan.gov</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan">www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan</a>
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