[Ohiodig] 2026 Best Practices Exchange CFP

[Hannah O'Daniel McCallon]

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Best Practices Exchange 2026
Sustaining Best Practices: Humans Required

The Best Practices Exchange (BPE) 2026 Program Committee is now accepting session proposals for our next unconference, Sustaining Best Practices: Humans Required, which will be held May 18-20, 2026, at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering at Indiana University-Indianapolis (in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana). View the full Call for Proposals<https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-call-for-proposals/>.

BPE is a community of practitioners in the area of the management and preservation of digital information who gather annually to share experiences and have honest conversations about our work. It is an unconference in the sense that we prioritize providing a safe space for active participation and peer-to-peer learning both in the sessions and outside of them. Speakers and attendees come from a variety of backgrounds, including government and university archivists, library and information science educators, technologists, special collection librarians, records managers, and product developers.

Submit your proposal via this short form (https://forms.gle/KphBNMQcnsSYrL8E7) by Friday, November 21, 2025. Acceptance notifications will be sent in January 2026.

Find more information about the 2026 unconference here: https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-conference/. View programs from past conferences here<https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/previous-conferences/> for examples of topics and session formats.

Interested in collaborating with others on a particular topic? Connect with others about potential proposals: BPE Proposals Brainstorming Spreadsheet<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nKcy2gzRdwVME56IcNMLJ4G2IhG7JO9Po4Je1hjKPm0/edit?usp=sharing>

Questions? Email bestpracticesexchange at gmail.com<mailto:bestpracticesexchange at gmail.com>



Hannah O'Daniel McCallon (she/her)

Digital Archivist, Access Team

The Filson Historical Society

1310 S. Third St.

Louisville, KY 40208

(502) 635-5083

mccallon at filsonhistorical.org<mailto:jcole at filsonhistorical.org>

www.FilsonHistorical.org<http://www.filsonhistorical.org/>

The Filson Historical Society resides on the ancestral homeland of the Cherokee, Delaware, Miami, Osage, and Shawnee Nations. The Chickasaw, Quapaw, and other Native Nations have also called the land now known as Kentucky home. As a guest on these lands, I extend my respect and gratitude to the many Indigenous peoples, past and present, who have called these lands home.

Please do not feel obligated to respond outside of your work hours.
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