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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Hello, all--</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Technical Services Discussion Group will not be able to meet on Sunday, 10:30-11:30 at Midwinter 2019 because ALA has adjusted its meeting
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Whitney and I know that our time during ALA meetings is precious, and that we’re often juggling multiple commitments. Therefore, we wanted
to bring this to you to see if you had any thoughts on the matter before we requested a specific time slot. We cannot guarantee that we’ll request your preferred slot; additionally, we cannot guarantee that ALA will grant us the slot we request! However, we
wanted to let you know what was going on as we move forward.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Currently, Whitney and I are planning to ask for either the Sunday, 9:00-10:00 or Sunday, 2:30-3:30 meeting slot. If you have any comments,
<b>please respond, either onlist or offlist (</b></span><a href="mailto:atims@mwa.org"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">atims@mwa.org</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">),
by Wednesday, Sept. 5, 12:00 pm EST.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In listing potential meeting slots, we looked at available slots on Saturday and Sunday and rejected any that conflicted with the Bibliographic
Standards Committee or the Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group usual meeting times. Additionally, we rejected the last meeting slot on Sunday as to not conflict with Information Exchange. The full list, with conflicts, is below, as is a list of meetings
with meeting times unknown to me.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">You can see a google calendar of the meeting slots and potential conflicts here:
</span><a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=MWhmYjFrNzF2MHVvZjk2ZWJxN2Z1cGpsNWNAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=MWhmYjFrNzF2MHVvZjk2ZWJxN2Z1cGpsNWNAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">ALA Midwinter is January 25-29, 2019, so you’ll have to go to those dates to see.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Sincerely,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Amy Tims (</span><a href="mailto:atims@mwa.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">atims@mwa.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Whitney Buccione (</span><a href="mailto:bucciw@uw.edu"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC">bucciw@uw.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Technical Services Discussion Group Co-Conveners</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Potential meeting slots are</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Saturday, 1:00 - 2:00</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Conflicts with Budget and Development Committee; Publications and Communications Committee; Collection Development Discussion Group</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Saturday, 3:00 - 4:00</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Note that the Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group is planning to meet at 4:00-5:30</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Conflicts with RBMS 2019 Conference Program Planning; Security Committee; Manuscripts and Other Formats Discussion Group</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Sunday, 9:00 - 10:00</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Conflicts with Conference Development Committee; Exhibition Awards Committee II; Digital Special Collections Discussion Group</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Sunday, 2:30 - 3:30</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">No known conflicts.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Potential conflicts not listed above (because I don’t know the time the committees will meet)</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Diversity Committee: Reading Group</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Instruction & Outreach Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">ALA 2019 Program Planning Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">ALA 2020 Program Planning Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">RBMS 2020 Conference Program Planning Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Task Force to Review the ACRL Code of Ethics for Special Collections Librarians</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Task Force to Revise the Statement on Access to Research Materials in Archives and Special Collections Libraries</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Task Force to Review Exhibition and Research Loans</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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