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CALL FOR SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS, Digital Commonwealth’s 16th Annual Conference

Description:

The Digital Commonwealth’s 16th Annual Conference will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday June 14, 2022 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM US East Coast Time. Digital Commonwealth’s Conference Committee invites interested speakers to submit abstracts of 1 page or less in length for presentations centered around the theme: Users and Uses: Centering Communities in Digital Collections.Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 

  • How to most effectively assist users at various skill levels in using digital collections
  • How to create metadata that is accurate and helpful to users
  • Strategies to evaluate and update existing descriptions of collections and items
  • Strategies to facilitate discovery in digital collections
  • Integrating digital collections into library programming and patron services
  • Making digital collections relevant and accessible to underserved and underrepresented communities
  • Creating policies for responsible access to sensitive/potentially offensive materials

Proposals for individual presentations, being a panel participant, joint proposals for a panel, or a planned interactive dialogue between 2-3 people, will be considered for inclusion.

About Digital Commonwealth

Digital Commonwealth is a non-profit collaborative organization that provides resources and services to support the creation, management, and dissemination of cultural heritage materials held by Massachusetts libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives. Digital Commonwealth currently has over 200 member institutions from across the state.

Digital Commonwealth’s mission is to provide access to thousands of images, documents, and sound recordings that have been digitized by member institutions so that they may be available to researchers, students, and the general public. Digital Commonwealth provides a single point of online access to digital assets hosted by Massachusetts cultural institutions. It also serves as a repository for hosting an institution’s content. Free digitization services are provided by the Boston Public Library as part of the Library for the Commonwealth program. Our member institutions include libraries, museums, historical societies, archives, research institutions, and other organizational repositories of our cultural heritage.  

Massachusetts Collections Online: digitalcommonwealth.org

Membership and Programming: digitalcommonwealth.wildapricot.org

How to apply:

Abstracts should be submitted by email no later than December 17, 2021 to

[email protected]. Please email any questions to the same addres