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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">ALA Annual 2020: Digital Conversion Interest Group Seeks Presenters</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">The<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/pars/grps/ats-parigdc" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none">ALCTS
PARS Digital Conversion Interest Group</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial"><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>is currently accepting proposals for<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">15
minute presentations</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial"><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>at the<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">ALA
Annual Conference<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">(Chicago, IL) on Saturday, June 27, 2020, 1:00pm-2:00pm.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">This year’s theme is Digital Scholarship as it relates to projects or theory concerned with </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">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.<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Both
academic and public institutions are encouraged to propose presentations.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">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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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Projects featuring digitized or reformatted content utilized in a digital scholarship project</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Influencing digital conversion methods through feedback from digital scholars</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38"><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">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></p>
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and/or genealogical societies)</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">In addition</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">, Ginnie and Roger
plan to lead a discussion as a brainstorming exercise around the concept of a “Digitization in Action” program that we might plan for 2021. This would follow the structure of the ALCTS PARS “</span><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/pia" style="margin: 0px; font-weight: normal"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none">Preservation
in Action</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">” program and provide for hands on, on-site interaction and demo of a digital reformatting operation. </span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Please email a 200 word proposal to the co-chairs (</span><a href="mailto:vdressle@kent.edu" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none">Virginia
Dressler</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>or<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><a href="mailto:ros001@ucsd.edu" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none">Roger
Smith</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">) by</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin: 0px"> </span>May
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial">Also, the co-chairs are also seeking a new co-chair to serve from 2020-2021. Please send an email to express your interest. In this role, you will work alongside a co-chair (Roger
Smith, UC San Diego Library) to plan and coordinate IG meetings for the ALA annual meeting (Midwinter is not required, but encouraged).</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Virginia Dressler (Kent State University)</span></p>
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