<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent">It is my pleasure to announce that registration for QuasiCon is now open! </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><font size="2"></font><br style="margin:0px"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">QuasiCon is a one day FREE student-run conference at the School of Information to be held on <b><span class="gmail-m_4395790299514208344gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dashed"><span class="gmail-m_4395790299514208344gmail-aQJ">Sat, Feb. 10, 2018, 8:30 am - 3:45 pm</span></span></b> at North Quad.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-variant:normal;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;float:none;background-color:transparent">Here is the link to register: </span><a style="text-align:left;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent" href="http://quasicon-2018.appspot.com/" target="_blank">http://quasicon-2018.<wbr style="display:inline-block">appspot.com/</a><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;direction:ltr;float:none;background-color:transparent">. The registration button is at the top of the page!</span><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">This year's theme is "Discovery & Distortion," featuring keynote speaker is Jo Angela </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Oehrli, </font></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">L</font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="2">earning Librarian & Children’s Literature Librarian at the University of Michigan Libraries The conference will feature two panels, a series of lightning talks, interactive demos, a poster session, and more featuring UMSI s</font>tudents, faculty, and staff!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent">Come and learn about the "discovery & distortion" challenges the information field faces today and see what other exciting and interesting things UMSI students are exploring and presenting!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><b style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></b><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, contact the QuasiCon planning committee <a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">quasicon.planners.20<wbr>18@umich.edu</a>, or the ALA student chapter officers at <a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="mailto:alaofficers@umich.edu" target="_blank">alaofficers@umich.edu</a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif">Feel free to spread the word to your friends and colleagues!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin:0px;padding-bottom:0px;font-size:12.8px;direction:ltr">I look forward to seeing you there!</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><font face="helvetica"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><font face="helvetica">All best,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-position:0% 0%;margin:0px;text-align:left;background-image:none;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;background-repeat:repeat;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-clip:border-box;background-origin:padding-box;background-size:auto;background-color:transparent"><font face="helvetica">Ben Rearick</font></p></div>