<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 6pt"><b><font size="4">The ICPSR Biennial Meeting will take place September 30 – October 2, 2015.</font></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif;margin-top:12pt"><font size="4">This year’s confere<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack" style="color:rgb(171,83,190)"></a>nce theme is <b><i>“Working Together for Effective Data Stewardship.”</i></b> With over 17 workshops and sessions in development, this biennial meeting will highlight ICPSR’s core functions, featuring current data collections and data-related tools and exciting new data projects. The meeting will also feature practical approaches and strategies to work with data producers to share data, write data management plans, steward discipline-focused repositories, and locate tools and resources to assist in curating and managing research data.</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif;margin-top:12pt"><font size="4">The meeting registration site is expected to be launched later this spring. Until then, a sneak peek at the workshops and sessions being organized is found on the ICPSR website here: <font color="#000000" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/support/announcements/2015/03/tentative-schedule-announced-for-icpsr">http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/support/announcements/2015/03/tentative-schedule-announced-for-icpsr</a> </font><br></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="4">Workshops take place on Wednesday, September 30 followed by the meeting on Thursday and Friday, October 1-2. New this year is the Data Carpentry workshop on Monday and Tuesday, September 28-29 (tentative). More on the Data Carpentry workshop is found here: <a href="http://datacarpentry.org/">http://datacarpentry.org/</a> </font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif">The 2015 ICPSR Meeting will also include formal and informal opportunities to network with fellow Official and Designated Representatives and attendees from member institutions and ICPSR staff. The meeting is open to individuals from </span><a href="http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/membership/administration/institutions" style="color:rgb(171,83,190);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif">member institutions</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif"> and invited guests and speakers. There is no registration fee for the meeting.</span><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, sans-serif" size="4">ICPSR looks forward to offering registration this spring and to seeing you this fall!</font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><a name="SafeHtmlFilter__MailAutoSig"><span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Linda Detterman</font></font></span></a></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Assistant Director, Collection Delivery</font></font></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Marketing & Membership Director</font></font></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">ICPSR – University of Michigan</font></font></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span></span><a href="mailto:lindamd@umich.edu" target="_blank"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span><span>lindamd@umich.edu</span></span><span></span></font></font></a><span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span><span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">734.615.5494</font></font></span></span></p></div>
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