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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black"><b>Midwest Data Librarian Symposium 2020</b></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102)"><b>Reflection and Futures: 5 Years of MDLS and Data Librarianship</b></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">The Midwest Data Librarian Symposium invites proposals for its first virtual symposium, taking place on October 14-16, 2020.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">The Midwest Data Librarian Symposium (MDLS) is an unconference for data and librarians. MDLS is intended to enable Midwestern librarians who work with research data management
issues the chance to network; however, it is open to all who wish to attend, including data professionals and those situated outside the Midwest.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">MLDS 2020 will be a virtual event taking place over three afternoons. Given community feedback on the virtual nature of this year’s symposium, MDLS will look a bit more
like a traditional conference, but will still deliver plenty of networking time and engaging content.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">The planning committee seeks submissions for presentations for session panels and lightning talks. We encourage presenters from</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black"><b><i>any</i></b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black"><b><i><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt"> </span></i></b></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">roles
that support research data to apply. The planning committee also seeks community volunteers to serve as mentors, facilitators, and note-takers. </span></p>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">Proposals are due by 5 pm CST on July 10, 2020.</span></b></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">To submit a proposal:</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt"> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejEUGR9cxtruDexWWrtgiGAC0_OQz9b6msn0AQsxHN8lZTZg/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt">MDLS
2020</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt">CFP</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt">Google form</span></a></span></p>
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to the panel theme, time for questions will be included at the end of the panel.</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">Lightning talks</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">: Presenters will give a 5-minute presentation related
to the lightning talk theme, time for questions will be included at the end of the talks.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">Proposals should:</span></p>
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practical problems, advice, and experiences of data librarian work</span></p>
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based on practical learning outcomes for both new and advanced professionals</span></p>
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clear take-aways for the audience</span></p>
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will be given to Midwestern institutions, early-career professionals, professionals from diverse backgrounds, and topics that address issues of diversity in the field.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">Successful applications will:</span></p>
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articulate their topic, take-aways, and learning outcomes.</span></p>
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an</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt"> </span><a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/training/accessible" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204)">accessible</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">and</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt"> </span><a href="https://mwdatalibrariansymposium.wordpress.com/code-of-conduct/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204)">inclusive</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">experience.</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">Data Librarianship in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences</span></b></p>
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studies and practical applications of data librarianship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences - developing partnerships, services for these disciplines, and data concerns specific to these communities. </span></p>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">Ethics</span></b></p>
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data sharing, building data collections, biases in data, data invisibility, supporting data work with diverse communities, ethical data visualization and communication, how we guide practitioners to make good ethical decisions, providing resources and educational
opportunities, and working with sensitive data in a way that supports researchers and respects human subjects and communities.</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black"><br>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">Infrastructure</span></b></p>
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is critical to scalable services, so let’s talk about different frameworks and experiments in infrastructure.</span></p>
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consider this broadly - across partnerships/collaborations, physical infrastructures, staff resources, and supporting research services across diverse campus groups and communities.</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">Research and Service Continuity during COVID-19</span></b></p>
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your experiences and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></p>
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do you support service/research continuity while working remotely?</span></p>
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gaps in services, infrastructure, or community support have been illuminated?</span></p>
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new services or modes of delivery might we explore?</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">Learning from Our Mistakes 2.0</span></b></p>
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2020 and as many conferences have said, hindsight is 20/20! </span></p>
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have we learned in the last 5 years of MDLS?</span></p>
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did we start and where are we now?</span></p>
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celebrate successes, learn from all our experiments and pilots, and generally share how awesome we’ve all been the last five years!</span></p>
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session for early-career data librarians (Call for mentors)</span></b></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px">o</span><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font: 10pt "Times New Roman""> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font: 7pt "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">Given
that we pulled back to a more traditional conference format due to our virtual environment, we wanted to be sure to build in networking and community time.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px">o</span><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font: 10pt "Times New Roman""> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font: 7pt "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">We’re
looking for seasoned data librarians/information professionals to commit to meeting with 2-3 mentees for a 1-hour meeting/lunch during the conference. We’ll connect you based on interests/regions and some conversation starters. Your task will be to listen
to questions/concerns and provide practical insight to our early-career colleagues and students.</span></p>
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on response levels, we will do our best to include everyone, but may not be able to.</span></p>
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of MDLS community (Call for facilitators and note takers)</span></b></p>
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hoping to have a discussion about infrastructure and futures for MDLS to gain community insight and direction.</span></p>
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are looking for folks willing to help facilitate break-out rooms as well as note-takers.</span></p>
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activities</span></b></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px">o</span><span style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font: 10pt "Times New Roman""> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font: 7pt "Times New Roman""><span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span></span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">If
you would like to lead a topic table, hackathon, virtual lunch/happy hour, or game night session, please provide your name and activity/topic.</span></p>
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activities are planned during lunch from 12:00-1:00 PM each conference day, as well as the last portion of the third conference day.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">To submit to volunteer without a proposal:</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt"> </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSducvFgyZZUbvWR50j3bvtp8BRdi1ADFrUorrg_A8hsTSCjZw/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt">MDLS
2020 volunteer Google form</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">Thank you!</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt">Trisha</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black">Adamus
and Cameron Cook, MDLS 2020 planning committee co-chairs</span></p>
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