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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">ALA Annual 2019: Digital Conversion Interest Group Seeks Presenters</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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**Please excuse any cross-postings**</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">The
</span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/pars/grps/ats-parigdc" id="LPlnk863888" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1155CC">ALCTS PARS Digital Conversion Interest Group</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">
is currently accepting proposals for <b>15 minute presentations</b> at the <b>ALA Annual Conference
</b>(Washington, DC) on Saturday, June 22, 1:00pm-2:00pm.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; background:white">This year’s theme is Digital Scholarship as it relates to projects or theory concerned with </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">digitization,
preservation, and access of print, audio, photographic, and moving image materials, as well as the migration, preservation, and access of born digital collections, including web-based and software-based materials.
<b>Both academic and public institutions are encouraged to propose presentations.</b></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; background:white">Special priority will be given to proposals that focus on digital conversion as it relates to the use of digital tools to explore scholarly
questions and suggest new paths of inquiry. Topics may include:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; background:white">Projects featuring digitized or reformatted content utilized in a digital scholarship project</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="color:black; background:white; vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; background:white">Collaborations with faculty or scholars employing digital tools to conduct research</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="color:black; background:white; vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; background:white">Influencing digital conversion methods through feedback from digital scholars</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="color:black; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; background:white">Collaborations with library information technology experts and staff on digital scholarship projects</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="color:black; background:white; vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; background:white">Integration of digitized/reformatted collections in projects around digital exhibits like Omeka or Scalar, multimodal publishing, information visualization, geospatial data, text
analysis, or digital editions</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span></li><li class="x_MsoNormal" style="color:black; background:white; vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Promoting digitized/reformatted collections related to underrepresented groups (whether through social media, presentations, cooperation with historical societies and/or genealogical societies)</span></li></ul>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; background:white">Please email proposals to the co-chairs (</span><a href="mailto:stelnabli@ucsd.edu" id="LPlnk750671" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1155CC; background:white">Stefan
Elnabli</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; background:white"> or
</span><a href="mailto:vdressle@kent.edu" id="LPlnk842798" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1155CC; background:white">Virginia Dressler</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; background:white">)
by<b> May 3, 2019</b></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">The co-chairs are also seeking a new co-chair to serve from 2019-2020. Please send an email to express your interest. In this role you will work alongside a co-chair
(Virgina Dressler, Kent State University) to plan and coordinate IG meetings for the ALA annual meeting (Midwinter is not required but encouraged).</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; background:white">Stefan Elnabli (UC San Diego)</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; background:white">Virginia Dressler (Kent State University)</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Stefan Elnabli</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Manager, Digital Reformatting Operations</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">UC San Diego Library</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">858.534.7981 | <a href="mailto:stelnabli@ucsd.edu" id="LPlnk943523" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">
stelnabli@ucsd.edu</a></span></p>
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