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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:20.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">IASSIST & CARTO 2018 CALL FOR PROPOSALS</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:20.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222">Conference website: <a href="http://www.library.mcgill.ca/iassistcarto2018/" target="_blank">http://www.library.<wbr>mcgill.ca/iassistcarto2018/</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222">Conference hashtag: #iassistcarto</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222">The 44th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services
and Technology (<a href="http://iassistdata.org/" target="_blank">IASSIST</a>) will be jointly held with the 52nd annual conference of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (<a href="https://acmla-acacc.ca/" target="_blank">ACMLA-ACACC</a>)
in Montréal, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333">Québec, Canada </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222">from
May 28-June 1, 2018.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Once Upon a Data Point: Sustaining our Data Storytellers</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">In many ways, researchers are data storytellers: they create compelling data-supported narratives for examining
both historical and current social phenomena and for facilitating social change and reconciliation. We professionals who support these data storytellers play vital roles in giving their data stories life. We assist our data storytellers in:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Discovering existing and collecting new data from which to craft the stories.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Analyzing and managing data to uncover the stories hiding within.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Visualizing data to offer vivid and meaningful illustrations to enhance the stories.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Teaching data literacy skills to their audiences so they can understand and critique the stories.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Curating, archiving, and sharing data so that the stories are not lost for future generations, and so new data storytellers may weave even more stories
from the data.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">And we conduct our own research to tell our own stories and to also improve our support of other data storytellers.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">We welcome submissions that tell diverse stories about our IASSIST and ACMLA-ACACC communities’ experiences,
that offer conference attendees suggestions of how they can implement or adapt lessons for their own work, and that have wide-reaching appeal to our international attendees. Although the positive outcomes are always something people want to hear, there’s also
an appetite for learning about the things that didn’t go well, particularly any problems you faced and how others might avoid or handle them.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">So bring us your data comedies, tragedies, epics, horror stories, mysteries, histories, thrillers, adventures,
fables, fantasies, science fiction, and even romances if you’ve got them! We look forward to sharing, learning from, and adapting each other's stories.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Submitting Proposals</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">We welcome submissions for papers, presentations, panels, posters, and Pecha Kuchas in English and French.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">The Call for Presentations, along with the link to the submission form, is at: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.library.mcgill.ca/iassistcarto2018/call-for-proposals/" target="_blank">http://www.library.mcgill.ca/<wbr>iassistcarto2018/call-for-<wbr>proposals/</a> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Questions about presentation submissions may be sent to the Program Co-Chairs (Jay Brodeur, Laurence Horton,
and Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh) at </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="mailto:iassist2018@gmail.com" target="_blank">iassist2018@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">We are also accepting submissions for Pre-conference Workshops. The Call for Workshops, along with the link to
the submission form, is at: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.library.mcgill.ca/iassistcarto2018/workshops/" target="_blank">http://www.library.mcgill.ca/<wbr>iassistcarto2018/workshops/</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Questions about workshop submissions may be sent to Workshop Coordinators, Jenny Muilenburg (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="mailto:jmuil@uw.edu" target="_blank">jmuil@uw.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">)
and Andy Rutkowski (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="mailto:arutkows@usc.edu" target="_blank">arutkows@usc.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">).</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:20.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#990000">Deadline for <u>ALL</u> submissions: 20 November 2017</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:20.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#990000">Notification of acceptance: February 2018<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Support for Attending the Conference</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">IASSIST Fellows Program supports data professionals from underrepresented regions and countries with emerging economies. IASSIST Early Professional Fellows
Program helps early career data professionals recognizing the value of innovative ideas. Applications can be made at </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/dr6fie6XJyOKR4Ee2" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">https://goo.gl/forms/<wbr>dr6fie6XJyOKR4Ee2</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> and
will close <b>19 January 2018.</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#222222">Address questions about the Fellows Programs to Florio Arguillas (<a href="mailto:foa2@cornell.edu" target="_blank">foa2@cornell.edu</a>) and
Stuart Macdonald (<a href="mailto:stuart.macdonald@ed.ac.uk" target="_blank">stuart.macdonald@ed.ac.uk</a>).</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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