Greetings Registration is now open for the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference and CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting, August 9-11 at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Join your digital collections colleagues in the Quad Cities for three days of networking, sharing of best practices, and hands-on learning! Register now<https://news.minitex.umn.edu/2016-upper-midwest-digital-collections-conference>. The Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (#UMDCC16) features: * Keynote speaker Trevor Owens on IMLS's national digital platform priority * Workshops on metadata for oral history collections, copyright, and managing born-digital content * Presentations on a range of topics from a/v digitization to web archiving to community engagement * Tours of local museums and archives The CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting includes: * Keynote panel with Bruce Washburn and Jeff Mixter of OCLC Research and the Strategic Advisory Group for Digital Collections: "CONTENTdm data refinery: A Linked Data pilot study" * A CONTENTdm Product Update and Q&A with Product Manager Shane Huddleston * A preview of the next phase of CONTENTdm development * Presentations from CONTENTdm users Registration fees: * $55 for Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference (August 9) * $35 for workshops (August 10) * $0 for CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting (August 10-11) For registration information and the full conference program, visit http://wils.org/umdcc16. Please note: if you're attending the conference, we strongly encourage you to make your hotel reservations now. The John Deere Classic golf tournament, a major stop on the PGA Tour, will be taking place in the Quad Cities at the same time as the conference, and hotels are filling up quickly. We have blocks of rooms reserved for a limited time at three hotels. For rates and reservation information, see http://www.wils.org/news-events/wilsevents/upper-midwest-digital-collections... The conference is organized by Minitex, WiLS, and RAILS (Reaching Across Illinois Library System), along with a regional planning committee and our local host, St. Ambrose University Library. The CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting is sponsored by OCLC; their support means that this portion of the conference is free to current and potential CONTENTdm users. Twitter hashtag: #UMDCC16 Facebook event page<https://www.facebook.com/events/1611738179117209/> ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v Kevin Driedger Librarian for Conservation and Digitization Library of Michigan P.O. Box 30007 702 W. Kalamazoo Lansing, MI 48913 517-373-9440 driedgerk@michigan.gov<mailto:driedgerk@michigan.gov> www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan<http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan>