This may be of interest to some of you! Reminder that the Library of Michigan offers a Continuing Education Stipend<https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/libraries/ce/scholarships/library-continuing-education-stipend-program> that could be used to assist with the cost of conference attendance. Biz Gallo Statewide Digitization Initiatives Coordinator Library of Michigan, 702 W. Kalamazoo, Lansing, MI 48915 GalloB@michigan.gov<mailto:GalloB@michigan.gov> | mi.gov/LMdigitization<http://mi.gov/LMdigitization> | 517-335-1402 she/her/hers [Michigan.gov/Vote logo Description automatically generated]<https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/> Get personalized voter information on early voting and other topics at Michigan.gov/Vote<https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/>. ________________________________ From: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> on behalf of Rowell, Chelcie Juliet <chelcie_rowell@HARVARD.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 4:10 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG <CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Register for the Digital Commonwealth virtual conference CAUTION: This is an External email. Please send suspicious emails to abuse@michigan.gov Registration is now open for the 18th annual Digital Commonwealth virtual conference<https://membership.digitalcommonwealth.org/2024-Conference>, which will be held on April 30, 2024 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. via Zoom webinar. This year’s theme is “Building Connections: Pixels & People.” Registration<https://membership.digitalcommonwealth.org/event-5484747> is $10 for students and Digital Commonwealth members and people experiencing personal hardship, $25 for non-members. Our keynote speaker is K.J. Rawson<https://kjrawson.net/>, founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive<https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/>, as well as chair of the editorial board of the Homosaurus<https://homosaurus.org/>. We also have a great line-up of additional presenters still being organized: * The Freedom on the Move<https://freedomonthemove.org/> team will present about fugitives from slavery and Kentucky’s historical newspaper. * Leather Archive & Museum<https://leatherarchives.org/>'s Executive Director, Gary Wasdin, will speak about collective community action and fundraising. * Kelley Ewing (Library of Virginia), Kerry Huller (Library of Congress), Stewart Plein (West Virginia University Libraries). Jake Sadow (Boston Public Library) will present about the complexities and process of digitizing newspaper collections. * Eben English from Boston Public Library’s Digital Repository Services will give us an update about the Digital Commonwealth repository. * Digital Commonwealth’s educational fellow, Lara DeRose, will update us on the progress of their fellowship. …and more to be announced as the schedule is finalized. Join us! Warmly, on behalf of the Digital Commonwealth Board of Directors, Chelcie — Chelcie Juliet Rowell (she, they) Associate Head of Digital Collections Discovery UX and Discovery chelcie_rowell@harvard.edu 617-495-4561 11 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Lamont Library, A-10 🏛️ on-campus Monday, Tuesday, and Friday 🏡 remote Wednesday and Thursday