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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We're getting ready for our 2025 Access Lab community event taking place online 24 – 27 February 2025 and we warmly invite you to submit your ideas and proposals by Friday 18 October
2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">About Access Lab 2025</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
<a href="https://www.openathens.net/access-lab/">Access Lab</a> is our annual international conference where librarians, publishers and library users meet to discuss challenges facing our industry and to find solutions to problems. Our online event will run
at different times to allow you to participate from where you are in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our community volunteers will be helping to steer and support this year's program. And there will be opportunities to facilitate some of the sessions too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Access Lab 2025 proposals<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We’re looking for speakers and you could be exactly who we’re looking for. Are you a librarian, publisher, library service vendor or work in the knowledge industry? Would you like the opportunity
to discuss your challenges and solutions with your peers, vendors and partners?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You can submit proposals for plenary talks, panel debates, roundtable discussions, case studies and more. Topics may include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Security and user privacy<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Artificial Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Data analytics and reporting<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Impact of library budgets<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">User experience and accessibility<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Federated authentication and seamless access<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Get inspiration from our
<a href="https://www.openathens.net/access-lab/access-lab-resource-hub/">2024 Access Lab recordings</a> and
<a href="https://www.openathens.net/access-lab/get-involved/">submit your proposal</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">by Friday 18 October 2024 using our short online form.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you want to discuss your idea or session, please get in touch with program lead, Jane Charlton
<a href="mailto:jane.charlton@openathens.net">jane.charlton@openathens.net</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">UX Award 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">At the conference, Jane Charlton, senior marketing manager – community and content will announce the winner of our 2025 UX Award. Now in its sixth year, our UX Award showcases publishers
and library service vendors that have taken great strides in improving user experience. Any publisher, library systems vendor, or research and analytics tool can apply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.openathens.net/publishers/ux-award/">Visit our UX Award webpage</a> for more information and submit your application by 22 November 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best wishes<br>
The OpenAthens team</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:17.25pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Jane Charlton</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior marketing manager – community and content MPRCA CIPR InstLM</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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