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<span style="font-weight: 700;">NDSA and the 2026 DigiPres Planning Committee are pleased to announce that registration is now open for this year’s virtual conference taking place November 4-5. </span>The conference will highlight the theory and practice of
digital stewardship and preservation, data curation, the digital object lifecycle, and related issues. This year’s theme, “Striking a Balance: Optimizing Labor for Sustainability and Resilience,” will explore the ways that digital preservation professionals
approach, manage, and perform labor across diverse scenarios from managing small teams to ethically deploying AI.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ndsa-digipres-2026-registration-1996099461222?aff=oddtdtcreator" id="OWAfe962000-4db5-8763-76c8-6f40b37e1298" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ndsa-digipres-2026-registration-1996099461222?aff=oddtdtcreator. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ndsa-digipres-2026-registration-1996099461222?aff=oddtdtcreator" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;"><u>Register
today</u></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and gain access to presentations and lightning talks, an NDSA membership forum, sessions from Interest and Working Groups, and more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Conference Session Details Now Available</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please visit the conference website (</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://ndsa.org/conference/" id="OWA749bae8d-040f-f0b6-5a8a-30b16573ee6d" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://ndsa.org/conference/. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="https://ndsa.org/conference/" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;"><u>https://ndsa.org/conference/</u></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">)
to view more information about the conference. The tentative schedule is forthcoming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Conference Communications</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">During the conference itself we </span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://join.slack.com/t/ndsa2/shared_invite/zt-12l1qnyj4-kiIaxz8E1CUfts5lX__pWg" id="OWA6dbd0875-dbe3-6e59-58e6-a9952f3a79c8" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://join.slack.com/t/ndsa2/shared_invite/zt-12l1qnyj4-kiIaxz8E1CUfts5lX__pWg. Click or tap if you trust this link." originalsrc="https://join.slack.com/t/ndsa2/shared_invite/zt-12l1qnyj4-kiIaxz8E1CUfts5lX__pWg" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;"><u>invite
you to join the NDSA Slack channel</u></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> if you aren’t already there, or fire it up if you are. It’ll be where we distribute any last minute information and a useful place for general chatter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Questions? </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please reach out to </span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="mailto:ndsadigiprescochair2026@gmail.com" id="OWA12ad4ed6-b838-5163-3c17-29ef9f933b9c" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:ndsadigiprescochair2026@gmail.com" data-linkindex="3" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin: 0px;"><u>ndsadigiprescochair2026@gmail.com</u></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">,
and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.</span></div>
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Kathryn Michaelis</p>
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Digital Preservation Program Manager</p>
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Robert W. Woodruff Library</p>
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Emory University</p>
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