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Please join us for our first Digital Collections Office Hours of 2025, <b>NEXT Thursday, January 9, 2025</b> from 10:30-11:30 am. </div>
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<i>*Please note this is a week later than regularly scheduled Office Hours due to scheduling conflicts.</i></div>
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Do you have questions about creating digital collections? Do you have material that you want to digitize and share with your community, but don't know where to start? Are you interested in preserving your digital content and need tool recommendations? Join
experts from the <a href="https://cms.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/libraries/digitization/" target="_blank" id="OWAc835f315-af53-6fb9-6cf5-1d5702e5cacc" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://cms.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/libraries/digitization/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">
Library of Michigan</a>, <a href="https://michmemories.org/" target="_blank" id="OWAd3d0a2ec-33dc-9f49-f9ac-a2f3031f1974" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://michmemories.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="1" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">
DPLA Michigan Service Hub</a>, and the <a href="http://mipres.org/" target="_blank" id="OWA60dff744-989f-c4f3-40db-8c362a76fd1c" class="OWAAutoLink" title="http://mipres.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-linkindex="2" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">
Michigan Digital Preservation Network</a> for free advice during new monthly open office hours! Come with questions, like...</div>
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What grants are available to support digitization of my collections? (<i>hint:</i> YES!)</li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">
What file format should I be scanning to for long-term preservation?</li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">
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How do I work with volunteers to create a scanning program?</li><li style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">
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Office Hours will be held virtually the <b>first Thursday </b>of every month from
<b>10:30-11:30 am</b> and are open to any staff or volunteers at libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, or other cultural memory organizations! Use the link below to register for office hours and receive the Zoom link. Come for a question, stay
to join the discussion! </div>
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Registration Link: <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lce-upj8oG9XI77qeMfLkRc_04ehDFpDf" target="_blank" id="OWA61b3319c-dba4-e43c-8143-196123f20cd5" class="OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lce-upj8oG9XI77qeMfLkRc_04ehDFpDf. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="3" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lce-upj8oG9XI77qeMfLkRc_04ehDFpDf</a> </div>
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<b>Biz Gallo </b></div>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Statewide Digitization Initiatives Coordinator </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Library of Michigan, 702 W. Kalamazoo, Lansing, MI 48915</span><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT", sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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mi.gov/LMdigitization</a> | 517-335-1402</span></p>
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