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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also please check out our 5 fantastic </span><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.nasig.org/site_page.cfm?pk_association_webpage_menu=700&pk_association_webpage=15942"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pre-Conference Sessions</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on <a href="https://nasig.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/nasig19-preconference-text-mining-101/">text mining</a>, <a href="https://nasig.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/nasig19-preconference-library-leadership-your-way/">library leadership</a>, <a href="http://#NASIG19%20Preconference – Contract Construction: Creating an Effective Licensing Toolkit in an Academic Library Setting">licensing</a>, <a href="http://#NASIG19%20Preconference – BIBFRAME Basics: A Crash Course">BIBFRAME</a>, and the <a href="https://nasig.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/nasig19-preconference-the-future-of-scholarly-communications/">future of scholarly communications</a>! </span></p>
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