<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span id="m_-7307760198354782874gmail-docs-internal-guid-83a4179c-7fff-19e1-6a6d-bba743ce6500"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">please excuse cross-postings</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Call for Speakers and Proposals Announcement </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Join the </span><a href="https://aabc.ca/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Archives Association of BC</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><a href="https://armavi.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">ARMA VI</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> for our 2024 virtual conference: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Going further together: Connectivity and partnerships in the information profession </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">May 29 - 31, 2024. As the proverb goes: If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together. Post-Covid, the information field is ready to reinvigorate and seek new partnerships to go further in our theory and practice.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The organizing committee for the AABC / ARMA VI Joint Conference 2024 are inviting proposals related to the topic of partnerships, connectivity, and relationship building in the information field. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:</span></p></span></font><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Navigating low morale and capacity post covid through partnerships and relationship building;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Integrating and making space for new ideas, ways of knowing, practices, and theoretical perspectives;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Working with parallel and other professions or fields to improve practices and theory in information work;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Connections between large and small institutions, between communities, or between regions to accomplish projects;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Reciprocal and meaningful relationship building between archives and records management departments and Indigenous, marginalized, or POC communities; </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Relationship building initiatives in the Truth and Reconciliation and TRC Calls to Action landscape; </span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Connecting with specialists in the IT or STEM fields to implement digital transformation projects, or adapt new technologies;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Collaborations to overcome limitations, challenges, or shrinking budgets including experimental approaches;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Partnerships with donors and record creators to develop person-centered archival descriptions or improve record lifecycle management;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Collaborations that enhance privacy, access, or visibility of your institution, or the visibility of groups and communities;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Other topics or approaches to the theme as appropriate</span></li></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We are accepting proposals for panels, roundtables, presentations, lightning talks, poster sessions, and short workshops. If you have another format you would prefer, we are flexible!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Please submit conference proposals of 250 words and a short bio(s) of speakers to <a href="mailto:info@aabc.ca" target="_blank">info@aabc.ca</a> by Friday, April 19th, 2024.</b> If you have a preferred presentation format (e.g. roundtable discussion, presentation) and session length, please include that information as well in your submission. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Kindly, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">2024 AABC / ARMA VI Conference Planning Committee</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lisa Glandt, MAS</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Education and Advisory Services (EAS) Coordinator</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Archives Association of British Columbia</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">email: <font size="2"><a href="mailto:aabc.advisor@aabc.ca" target="_blank">aabc.advisor@aabc.ca</a></font><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">website: <a href="http://aabc.ca" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">aabc.ca</font></a></font></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I respectfully acknowledge that I work on the unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.</span><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span></span><spa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