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Please join us for Digital Collections Office Hours, <b>Thursday, May 8, 2025</b> from 10:30-11:30 am. </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="OWAec303cc1-ba82-3d27-2fe1-96770627100d" 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="OWA832500c4-b176-c2ff-7995-51e51c6dfa9e" 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="OWA327c896b-a761-e581-c5d7-e283e73c26ca" 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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Office Hours will be held virtually the <b>secondThursday </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
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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>
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