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<b>Teaching with Digital Collections in the Liberal Arts Curriculum</b><br>
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Save the date:<br>
May 21-23, 2009<br>
Reed College, Portland, Oregon<br>
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<div>What does it take to launch a digital asset management system that
improves access and helps integrate digital materials into the
curriculum?
Through funding from the Keck and Booth
Ferris Foundations, Reed College has been investigating this question
in the arts & humanities curriculum. The culmination of this
project will be a two-day symposium to be held on the Reed College
campus.</div>
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<div>We invite you to come together with
your colleagues to learn and share your experiences working with
digital collections in the liberal arts context. This event is
recommended for instructional technologists, IT staff, librarians and
library support staff, visual resources professionals, and anyone
interested in support for teaching with digital collections,
particularly images.<br>
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<div>There is no conference fee, and the single-track event will
feature:<br>
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-A meet-and-greet dinner on Thursday (opening) night;<br>
-Light breakfast, lunch and dinner on Friday; and light breakfast on
Saturday;<br>
-Two keynote guest speakers;<br>
-Three
to five other presentations, including guest speakers as well as Reed
staff members involved with the digital asset management program and
CONTENTdm at Reed.<br>
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<div>Registration information information will be available in January.</div>
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<div>For more information about Reed's "Teaching with Digital
Collections" project, visit our website at <a
href="http://web.reed.edu/digital_asset_mgmt/">http://web.reed.edu/digital_asset_mgmt/</a><br>
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Joanna Burgess<br>
Digital Assets Librarian<br>
Reed College Library<br>
503-517-7629<br>
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