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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Greetings,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Linked below are several items of interest to those who have been following along with the Statewide & Regional Stepping Stones to the National Digital Platform Project,
</span><a href="https://www.gvsu.edu/library/stepping-stones-68.htm">https://www.gvsu.edu/library/stepping-stones-68.htm</a><span style="font-size:11.0pt">. You are receiving this email on one or more of your professional association listservs. We’ll continue
to have updates going out on this channel(s) for the remainder of the project (through November), but if you have not already we are now encouraging project followers to please subscribe to the new project listserv at
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/mi-digital-preservation">http://mail2.mcls.org/mailman/listinfo/mi-digital-preservation</a></span>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A recording from our August Virtual Community Planning Meeting is now available. If you couldn’t make the call feel free to catch-up/ keep-up with all the great work.
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</span><a href="https://zoom.us/recording/play/6b0E7wJc9bQFMECamWzXGHXEmce9kLtw5tm21KHFmOdzmaaQDv1UO-pmHN_Kt0J9?startTime=1566830953000">https://zoom.us/recording/play/6b0E7wJc9bQFMECamWzXGHXEmce9kLtw5tm21KHFmOdzmaaQDv1UO-pmHN_Kt0J9?startTime=1566830953000</a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please take a moment also to read our Project White Paper on Community Governance, and then fill out our brief Community Governance Survey.
</span><a href="https://gvsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ewBzWvj5gcs9t7T">https://gvsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ewBzWvj5gcs9t7T</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We need your feedback on the type of governance structure you would like to see available for your institution as we lay the foundation for the launch of a state digital preservation network/community in 2020.
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<p class="MsoNormal">White paper - <a href="https://www.gvsu.edu/cms4/asset/0862059E-9024-5893-1B5AAAC2F83BDDD8/stepping_stones_gov_workshop_wp_draft.pdf">
https://www.gvsu.edu/cms4/asset/0862059E-9024-5893-1B5AAAC2F83BDDD8/stepping_stones_gov_workshop_wp_draft.pdf</a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Stay tuned for more details this coming week on the upcoming project workshop scheduled for the Michigan Museums Association Annual Conference in Grand Rapids, MI (October 2<sup>nd</sup>-5<sup>th</sup>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As always, if you have any questions in between now and out next Virtual Community Planning Call on September 30<sup>th</sup>, from 11am-12pm ET, don’t hesitate to follow-up with me (Matt Schultz,
<a href="mailto:schultzm@gvsu.edu">schultzm@gvsu.edu</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Matt Schultz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Curation and Digital Preservation Librarian
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Grand Valley State University Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:schultzm@gvsu.edu">schultzm@gvsu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">616-331-5072<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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