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Possible Conferences

EDUCAUSE

EDUCAUSE 2012

Philly, Nov 6-9.

They seem to structure around "domains" which includes: "Libraries, E-Research, and Digital Content" "Libraries support the life cycle of scholarly content through discovery, description, curation, and preservation. Librarians are leaders in advancing inquiry and learning for their communities and for the global community of scholars. This domain includes e-texts and other emerging digital content areas."

EDUCAUSE 2013 is October 15–18, 2013 Anaheim, California, and Online

EDUCAUSE Mission


Midwest Archives Conference

The Midwest Archives Conference is the nation's largest regional professional association for archivists.

MAC 2013 is April 18-20 in Indianapolis, Indiana

Call for proposals


iPres

iPres is the main international conference on digital preservation.


iPres 2012 is October 1-5 in Toronto, Ontario [1]

iPres 2013 is ? (TBA) Lisbon, Portugal


Archiving (Society for Imaging Science and Technology)

Since the first meeting, Archiving has continued to offer a unique opportunity for imaging scientists and those working in the cultural heritage community (curators, archivists, librarians, etc.), as well as in government, industry, and academia, to come together to discuss the most pressing issues related to the digital preservation and stewardship of hardcopy, audio, and video.

April 2-5, 2013 in Washington, DC

Call for Papers


LITA

Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) members are information technology professionals dedicated to educating, serving, and reaching out to the entire library and information community. LITA is a division of the American Library Association. Nothing for 2013 is online yet, but the Oct Forum info is available.


Museum Computer Network

MCN's conference will be help November 7-10, 2012 Seattle, WA

This year’s theme, “The Museum Unbound: Shifting Perspectives, Evolving Spaces, Disruptive Technologies”, focuses on exploring how the quickening pace of technological innovation is expanding the very definition of what it means to be a museum.

The MCN has some participants interested in digital preservation and digital asset management issues.

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NITLE

The National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) helps liberal arts colleges and universities integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology.

They don't have a conference but they do have something called the Innovation Studio Demo Day. Maybe we could get in on that? As soon as we have something innovative to talk about :-) Meg will volunteer to contact them!


Open Repositories

Open Repositories 2013 will be held July 2013 in Charlottetown, PEI, Canada [4]


Preservation Week

ALCTS sponsors a week of activities and a website of with resources for all kinds of preservation topics.

The week includes webinars and we might offer to get in one that. The only drawback is that public libraries are the prime audience. So how good we are at identifying possibilities for the really low end of the "RR" part of our work may limit this possibilty.


RBMS

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Preconference, American Library Association.
O Rare! Performance in Special Collections
Sunday – Wednesday, June 23 – 26, 2013
Minneapolis, MN
Call for Short Papers due December 15: http://www.new.rbms.info/?q=node/73


Society of American Archivists' Annual Meeting (in 2013, will meet jointly with the Council of State Archivists)

Takes place August 11 – 17, 2013 and the deadline for proposals is October 5.

Call for Proposals


17th International Conference on Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2013, the 17th edition of the conference, will be organized by University of Malta and it will be held in Valletta, Malta on September 22-26, 2013.

Call for Proposals, posters, and demos due by March 23, 2013


ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2013) is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. JCDL encompasses the many meanings of the term digital libraries, including (but not limited to) new forms of information institutions and organizations; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, distributing, and accessing digital content; theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing and theory and practice of use of managed content in science and education.

JCDL 2013 will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana (USA), 23-25 July 2013. The program is organized by an international committee of scholars and leaders in the digital libraries field and attendance is expected to include several hundreds of researchers, practitioners, managers, and students.


Full paper submissions due: 28 January 2013, Short Papers, Panels, Posters, Demonstrations, Workshops, Tutorials due: 4 February 2013