Registration is now open for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC18) at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota November 8-9. Join your digital collections colleagues for 1.5 days of networking, sharing of best practices, and hands-on learning.
The Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference features:
- Keynote speaker Abigail Potter (Digital Innovation Labs, Library of Congress) on using digital collections as data and new digital initiatives at the Library of Congress
- 3 pre-conference workshops on planning sustainable digital projects at resource-strapped institutions, implementing DPLA rights statements, and building strategies to provide access to born-digital materials
- 18 breakout sessions to choose from
- An opening reception at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Scholarship opportunity:
Recollection Wisconsin Governing Partner, WiLS, is offering a “Good-WiLS Ambassador” opportunity for an attendee from a WiLS member institution. WiLS will provide reimbursement for one conference registration as well as up to $250 reimbursement in travel expenses (hotel, mileage, food).
Applicants should work directly with digital collections (e.g. digitization, digital preservation, metadata) at a WiLS member institution. The application deadline is October 15, 2018.
