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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-">Do you support faculty researchers or graduate student researchers?</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-">Or, do you do your own research?</span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-">Consider presenting at Empirical Librarians!</span><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-">Please join us for the 5th Empirical Librarians conference, EmpLibs19. EmpLibs19 is a small conference on librarians and research, held March 7-8, 2019 in Richmond, VA.</span><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-">We seek presentation proposals from librarians, library professionals, and LIS students on our two conference topic tracks:</span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-">(1) supporting original research, through faculty and graduate outreach, scholarly communications, etc.; and</span><br>
<span style="background-image: initial; background-">(2) doing research in libraries, including qualitative, quantitative, and humanistic approaches.</span><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-"> Track 1 concentrates on discussions of the specialized needs of original researchers as patrons. Track 2 concentrates on issues in doing library research, and is also a great place to revisit an already-presented
set of findings but focus on the “how to” of methodology instead of the results.</span><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-">Please submit proposals for concurrent sessions, panels, and/or lightning talks at </span></span><span style="font-size:
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-image: initial; background-"> by December 21, 2018.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-">All proposals will be subject to double-blind peer review. Reviewer concerns are typically addressed by revision of the proposed presentation before final acceptance.</span><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-">Presenters will be required to register as attendees; early bird registration (open soon!) will be $45 for all attendees.</span><br>
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-">We are particularly interested in hearing practical ideas for researcher support and concrete discussions of methods for librarian research. Our experience is that the more we learn about doing original research
the better we are at supporting original research, and vice versa. For that reason, this conference brings together librarians who are researchers with librarians who support researchers, in order to share all manner of knowledge about research!</span><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-">Empirical Librarians is a small conference focused on librarians doing research and librarians supporting researchers. EmpLibs19
will be a one-and-a-half day conference. <span class="contextualextensionhighlight"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;
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held at Virginia Commonwealth University campus in Richmond, VA, on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 from 8am-5pm (est.) and Friday, March 8th, 2019 from 8am-1pm.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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<span style="background-image: initial; background-">Empirical Librarians is co-sponsored by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries and the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries.</span></span><br>
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