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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“New Opportunities & Collaborations with Technical Services”</span></p>
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NETSL Executive Board is seeking proposals for 60 minute breakout sessions (such as a panel discussion, workshop or skills training) and 7 minute lightning talks in accordance with our 2018 theme, New Opportunities & Collaborations with Technical Services.
Topics might include digital humanities, data management, migrations, automation, collaborating across units, cross training, technology skillsharing, troubleshooting, cataloging/metadata, preservation/digitization, and working with archives. Speakers will
receive complimentary registration to the 2018 NETSL Conference.</span></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You can see titles of past presentations since 2005 at <a href="https://netsl.wordpress.com/netslconference" target="_blank" id="LPlnk36874" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(17, 68, 136);" previewremoved="true">https://netsl.wordpress.com/netslconference</a>.</span><br>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submit your proposal at <a href="https://netslproposals2018.questionpro.com/" target="_blank" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk226044" previewremoved="true">https://netslproposals2018.questionpro.com</a>.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The deadline for proposal submission is 5:00 p.m. EST on January 26, 2018. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You
will be notified about your proposal status in early February, and we will follow up with you about your technology needs at that time.</span></p>
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