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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%">It’s the last week for regular registration to attend Empirical Librarians 2019 in Richmond, VA. If you haven’t seen
<a href="https://www.lib.utk.edu/emplibs/2019-program/"><span style="color:#0563C1">the program yet, take a look</span></a>! The EmpLibs conference is uniquely focused on practical presentations on working with research, whether it’s your patrons’ research
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%">You can see the schedule of sessions at
<a href="https://www.lib.utk.edu/emplibs/2019-program/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.lib.utk.edu/emplibs/2019-program/</span></a> and see
<a href="https://www.lib.utk.edu/emplibs/2019-program/#Program"><span style="color:#0563C1">the abstracts for more details</span></a>. Even if you can only come for one day, our $45 registration fee is worth it for the amazing sessions we have lined up.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%">We have great sessions on supporting researchers (our Track 1), including science communication, data, and scholcomm topics as well as collaboration and graduate student support topics.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%">We also have a striking array of presentations on being researchers in the library (our Track 2), including assessment and methodology topics covering all sorts of quantitative, qualitative,
and humanistic techniques. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is a conference where librarians who do research can get ideas from colleagues who are in the weeds of helping researchers, and where librarians who support researchers can get ideas from people in the weeds of doing research. We will
have a virtual keynote from Kris Brancolini & Marie Kennedy (the wonderful PIs of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship), and breaks for networking too. Come join our conversation!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">Christopher Eaker</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">Assistant Professor & Data Curation Librarian
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ORCID: <a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5881-1680"><span style="color:#0563C1">0000-0001-5881-1680</span></a>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496">University of Tennessee Libraries<br>
236 John C. Hodges Library <br>
1015 Volunteer Boulevard <br>
Knoxville, TN 37996 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2F5496"><a href="mailto:ceaker@utk.edu"><span style="color:#2F5496">ceaker@utk.edu</span></a>
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(865) 974-4404 <br>
<a href="https://www.lib.utk.edu/scholar/"><span style="color:#2F5496">https://www.lib.utk.edu/scholar/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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