Forwarding this announcement for a worthwhile event. (I'll be there.) Join us in Minneapolis in August for the first-ever Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference! This event will bring together a wide range of professionals engaged in creating and curating digital collections across the Upper Midwest and beyond, including academic librarians, public librarians, archivists, museum curators, historians and more. The two-day conference, jointly organized by Minitex and WiLS and sponsored by OCLC, will include a Northern CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting on August 18 followed by a more general "All Things Digital" day on August 19. Dates and Location Monday, August 18, 2014 8:30am - 4:30pm Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:30am - 4:15pm University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis Campus<https://www.stthomas.edu/campusmaps/minneapoliscampus/> Schulze Hall, 1000 La Salle Avenue Minneapolis, MN. 55403 Day 1 Cost: No registration fee Day 2 Cost: $45.00 Twitter hashtag: #allthingsdigital14 Registration deadline: August 8, 2014 Register now! <http://www.minitex.umn.edu/UMDCC> Day One: Northern CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting * Keynote<http://www.wils.org/news-events/wilsevents/umdcc/keynote-speakers/#Butler> from Matthew Butler of the University of Iowa's DIY History<http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/> crowdsourcing initiative * CONTENTdm update and Q&A with Christian Sarason, CONTENTdm Product Manager * Six breakout sessions from CONTENTdm users on website customizations, legacy metadata, tab-delimited spreadsheets and providing access to maps and postcards in CONTENTdm * Subject-specific "birds of a feather" dinners with like-minded colleagues at downtown Minneapolis restaurants Day Two: All Things Digital * Keynote<http://www.wils.org/news-events/wilsevents/umdcc/keynote-speakers/> from the New York Public Library Labs'<http://www.nypl.org/collections/labs> Matthew Miller * Twelve breakout sessions from digital content practitioners, including: o Building and marketing institutional repositories o Understanding linked data o The Linked Jazz Project<http://linkedjazz.org/> from NYPL Labs o Creating interactive timelines o Managing research data and born-digital content o Digitizing maps, music and local history collections o A Digital Public Library of America update For a full agenda, visit http://www.minitex.umn.edu/UMDCC Hotel We have arranged group rates with two downtown Minneapolis hotels near the conference site. Book by Friday July 18th to receive the group discount! Visit the conference website for more information: http://www.wils.org/news-events/wilsevents/umdcc/hotel ^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.facebook.com/conservation.at.lm<http://www.facebook.com/conservation.at.lm> www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan<http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan> Invest in a child's future today. Support the MDE Culture of Reading. www.michigan.gov/cultureofreading<http://www.michigan.gov/cultureofreading> [Culture of Reading-A (2)]