<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><b>***PLEASE EXCUSE CROSS-POSTING***</b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left"><strong><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://2020-dis.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">Registration</a></font> </span><span class="gmail-im" style=""><font color="#000000">for the Seventh Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium is now open!</font></span></strong></div><strong><div style="text-align:left"><strong>#2020DIS</strong></div></strong></div><div><div style="margin:5px 0px"></div><div><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Check out the program at:</font><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2020/" target="_blank">https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2020/</a></font></div><div style="text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div></span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Scholarship Opportunity:</b></div><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left">If you are a librarian or archivist of color with less than five years experience in the profession,</div><div style="text-align:left">you may apply for complimentary registration to the full symposium. </div><div style="text-align:left">The first five applicants will be awarded this scholarship.</div></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">To apply, email Jasmin de Unamuno at<b> </b><a href="mailto:jasmind@sandiego.edu" target="_blank">jasmind@sandiego.edu</a></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div><div class="gmail-im" style=""><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><u>Monday, April 27:</u></span></strong></div><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left"><b style=""><font style="" color="#000000">Five pre-conference workshops:</font></b></div><font color="#000000" style=""><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#500050"> </font>- <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Cataloging in the Age of RDA: Latest Trends, Issues, and Challenges</font></span></div></font></div><span id="gmail-m_-3917053818564032049m_-1489718522673114791gmail-docs-internal-guid-f6dcfafb-7fff-18b2-19aa-38555c64b823" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap">Murtha Baca PhD,</span><i style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"> Getty Research Institute (emerita) and UCLA (emerita);</i><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></div><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent">Luiz H. Mendes, </span><i style="background-color:transparent">California State University, Northridge and UCLA</i></font></div></span><p></p><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">- Developing and Articulating Open Access Policies, Principles, and Guidelines: </font></span></div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="text-align:left">a Hands-On Workshop</div></span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="text-align:left">Ellen Finnie, <i>MIT</i></div></span></font><p></p><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">- Lessons from SPARC’s Journal Negotiation Community of Practice: </font></span></div><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000">A Workshop on Aligning Negotiations With Making Scholarship Open By Default</font></div></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Nick Shockey, Caitlin Carter, and Greg Tananbaum, <i>SPARC</i></font></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Copyright Intersections for Academic Librarians</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sara Benson, <i>University of Illinois</i></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Planning and Managing a Digital Collections Project</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dinah Handel, <i>Stanford University</i></span></p></font></span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style=""><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-align:left"><strong style=""><font style="" color="#000000">Outdoor Wine and Cheese Welcome Reception </font></strong></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:700"><br></span></div></div><div style=""><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b><u>Tuesday, April 28</u></b></font></div><p style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong style=""><font style="" color="#000000">Keynote speakers:</font></strong></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <strong>"</strong></span><span style="font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">What is Open about Closed: an Ubuntu Perspective of Open Access"</font></span></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="" color="#000000"><div style="text-align:left"><span id="gmail-m_-3917053818564032049m_-1489718522673114791gmail-docs-internal-guid-d8c5cf51-7fff-7fb2-d5e3-eddac6d10c24" style=""><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reggie Raju, <i>University of Cape Town</i></span></span>  </div></font><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:left"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></em></span></div><div style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><span id="gmail-m_-3917053818564032049m_-1489718522673114791gmail-docs-internal-guid-6afc9256-7fff-b05e-2f53-43ec8e88d1cc" style=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap">"Academy-Owned Non-Profit Open Access Publishing: </span></div><span id="gmail-m_-3917053818564032049m_-1489718522673114791gmail-docs-internal-guid-6cfbf210-7fff-0013-7c10-0b99cac23f3d" style=""><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap">an Approach to Achieve Participatory and Sustainable Scholarly Communications"</span></div><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);text-align:left"><span id="gmail-m_-3917053818564032049m_-1489718522673114791gmail-docs-internal-guid-6cfbf210-7fff-0013-7c10-0b99cac23f3d" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Arianna Becerril García, <i>Redalyc</i></span></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">  </span></div><div style="text-align:left"><strong style=""><font style="" color="#000000"><br></font></strong></div><div style="text-align:left"><strong style=""><font style="" color="#000000">Featured speaker:</font></strong></div></span></span><p></p></span></font></div><div style=""><span id="gmail-m_-3917053818564032049m_-1489718522673114791gmail-docs-internal-guid-6afc9256-7fff-b05e-2f53-43ec8e88d1cc" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,sans-serif">"Facilitating OA Transformation through Publisher Engagement: The UC Experience"</span></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ivy Anderson, </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>California Digital Library</i></span></div></font><p></p></span><div style="text-align:left"><br></div></div><div style=""><div style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong style=""><font style="" color="#000000">Deans' Panel:</font></strong></span></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:left;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jennifer Fabbi</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Dean, University Library; California State University, San Marcos</span><br></div><div style=""><span id="gmail-m_-3917053818564032049m_-1489718522673114791gmail-docs-internal-guid-caff7f0f-7fff-2d58-e0a3-01a2c2b190a1" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maggie Farrell</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Dean of Libraries; University of Nevada, Las Vegas</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Larry Alford</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, University Chief Librarian; University of Toronto </span></font></p></span><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="text-align:left"><strong style=""><font style="" color="#000000">Plus:</font></strong></div><strong style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="text-align:left"><strong><font color="#000000"><a href="https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2020/" target="_blank">5 Lightning Talks</a></font></strong></div></strong></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong><font color="#000000"><a href="https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2020/" target="_blank">12 Concurrent Sessions</a></font></strong></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:left;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong><font color="#000000"><a href="https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2020/" target="_blank">4 User Groups</a></font></strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></div></div></div><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong style=""><font style="" color="#000000">WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN SAN DIEGO!</font></strong></div></div><div style="text-align:left;font-size:12.8px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><strong style=""><font style="" color="#000000">__________________</font></strong></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gm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