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<span class="FluidPluginCopy" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin:0px; color:rgb(5,5,5)"><span class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted4 ContentPasted2" style="margin:0px; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Kristin
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inquiry and user needs assessment, makerspace culture and tools, information literacy, and library and information science.</span></span></span></div>
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second speaker, Dr. Emily Knox of the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span><span class="FluidPluginCopy ContentPasted0 ContentPasted2" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin:0px; color:rgb(5,5,5); text-align:left"> will
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