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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Beyond the Numbers – November 7-9, 2018<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>Call for presentations deadline extended to May 18th!</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is hosting its third free conference on economic information: "Beyond the Numbers.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This conference will bring together librarians, information professionals, data researchers, and data managers to improve understanding of economic resources and how to find, use,
and share them. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Our aim is to provide librarians and other information professionals with the knowledge, competence, and enthusiasm to disseminate economic information expertise to their respective
audiences. We are seeking proposals for conference presentations. For more details, or to submit a proposal, visit
<a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/conferences/beyond-the-numbers/" target="_blank">
http://research.stlouisfed.org/conferences/beyond-the-numbers/</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Possible topics include:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Best practices and common missteps in using economic data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">New, misunderstood, or underused economic information tools and sources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Deep dives into the construction of economic and financial data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Curating data for access, preservation, sharing, and re-use<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Data description, citation, and findability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Research data management for economics and related disciplines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Proposal types include:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sessions: 45-minute full sessions or 20-minute short sessions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Panels and roundtable discussions: 45-60 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tutorials and hands-on workshops: 90 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Courtney R. Butler</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Data Curator | Center for the Advancement of Data and Research in Economics (CADRE)</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#92BAB0">P:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">816.585.0288
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#92BAB0">E:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="mailto:courtney.butler@kc.frb.org"><span style="color:blue">courtney.butler@kc.frb.org</span></a></span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#92BAB0">•</span> Kansas City, Missouri 64198 <span style="color:#92BAB0">
• </span> </span><a href="http://www.kansascityfed.org/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:blue">www.kansascityfed.org</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">
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