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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Greetings<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Registration is 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 – including two Michigan presenters, and hands-on learning!<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Register now <a href="https://news.minitex.umn.edu/2016-upper-midwest-digital-collections-conference">https://news.minitex.umn.edu/2016-upper-midwest-digital-collections-conference</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The group hotel rates expire today, so hurry and register for this helpful conference!<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC16) features:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> * Keynote speaker Trevor Owens on IMLS's national digital platform priority<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> * Workshops on metadata for oral history collections, copyright, and managing born-digital content<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> * Presentations on a range of topics from a/v digitization to web archiving to community engagement<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> * Tours of local museums and archives<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting includes:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> * Keynote panel with Bruce Washburn and Jeff Mixter of OCLC Research and the Strategic Advisory Group for Digital Collections: "CONTENTdm data refinery: A Linked Data pilot study"<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> * A CONTENTdm Product Update and Q&A with Product Manager Shane Huddleston<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> * A preview of the next phase of CONTENTdm development<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> * Presentations from CONTENTdm users<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Registration fees:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> * $55 for Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (August 9)<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> * $35 for workshops (August 10)<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> * $0 for CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting (August 10-11)<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For registration information and the full conference program, visit <a href="http://wils.org/umdcc16.">http://wils.org/umdcc16.</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please note: if you're attending the conference, we strongly encourage you to make your hotel reservations now. 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/">http://www.wils.org/news-events/wilsevents/upper-midwest-digital-collections-conference-2016/umdcc-2016-hotel/</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">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.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Twitter hashtag: #UMDCC16<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Facebook event page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1611738179117209/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1611738179117209/</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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