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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sharing this opportunity for those doing interesting things with with their local history and genealogy content! Please see information
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">The IFLA Local History and Genealogy Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) invites proposals for papers highlighting innovative local
history and genealogy projects and activities developed via social media channels.</span></span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black;background:white">Whether it's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, or any of the other emerging platforms, social media is the perfect environment to communicate and remember historical events in innovative
ways or to add nuance and a personal perspective on important historical moments.</span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">The</span></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">workshop's
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Old, Something New: Using Social Media to Engage Communities with Local History</i>" is in line with<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">IFLA's 2022 World Library Information Congress
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black;background:white">This event will be held online on August 23 at 16.00 CET time as part two of the Local History and Genealogy Section's Summer Meeting.</span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">This call is open to all interested librarians, communication and educational professionals, students , social media or history enthusiasts.</span></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;color:black"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:rgb(56, 56, 56)">Proposals of 15-minute presentations in English must be submitted in an electronic format<span style="margin:0px"> </span>before 15 July at<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black"><a href="mailto:crissroiu@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="mailto:crissroiu@gmail.com" data-linkindex="49" style="margin:0px;color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><b><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5, 99, 193)">crissroiu@gmail.com</span></b></a></span><span style="margin:0px"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:rgb(56, 56, 56)"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:rgb(56, 56, 56)">and
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px">Title of proposed presentation</span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;background:repeat scroll white">
<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px">Abstract of the proposed paper (no more than 200 words)</span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;background:repeat scroll white">
<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px">Name(s) of presenters and positions and/or titles</span></li><li style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black;background:repeat scroll white">
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<span style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;color:black">For any other information contact Cristina Roiu at the above e-mail address.</span></p>
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