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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#1D2129">The Midwest Archives Conference will hold its 2020 Annual Meeting May 6-9, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#1D2129">An election year presents an opportunity for choice in leadership, but it is also about the power of decisions. Who makes them, where they are made, when they are made,
and most importantly what decisions you make as an archivist. The Program Committee invites session proposals touching on the theme "Decision 2020" from all areas of archival practice and research and from allied fields. The Program Committee particularly
encourages submissions from early professionals, Archivists of Color and members of the LGBTQ+ community.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#1D2129">Topic Possibilities Include But Are Not Limited To:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">·</span></strong><span style="color:#1D2129"> Collections acquisition/accession representing a group(s) story that is missing from the archival record.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">·</span></strong><span style="color:#1D2129"> Collaborating with, starting, or otherwise participating in community archives</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">·</span></strong><span style="color:#1D2129"> Decisions regarding collections management tools and cleaning up legacy metadata.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">·</span></strong><span style="color:#1D2129"> Research on diversity- and inclusion-related topics.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">·</span></strong><span style="color:#1D2129"> Methodology and approaches to, and/or studies of decolonizing the archives</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">·</span></strong><span style="color:#1D2129"> Collections management decision-making.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">·</span></strong><span style="color:#1D2129"> Centennial of women's suffrage.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">·</span></strong><span style="color:#1D2129"> Decision-making and archival labor: lone arrangers, appropriate compensation in the archives and appropriate use of temporary positions,
and acknowledgement of archival labor, from students through professionals (also unpaid labor).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">·</span></strong><span style="color:#1D2129"> Archivists' voice (Make your voice be heard!): Archival advocacy, both for your own archives and advocating for communities represented
in your archives.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">·</span></strong><span style="color:#1D2129"> Getting things done when you are the only archivist in the room or when making major decisions is not in your job description.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">·</span></strong><span style="color:#1D2129"> Archivists' choice: why did you pick the archives profession?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#1D2129">The Program Committee will also consider outstanding proposals not related to this theme or these topics.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#1D2129">The deadline for submitting proposals for the 2020 MAC Annual Meeting is
</span><b><span style="color:#4B4F56">Friday, August 30</span></b><span style="color:#1D2129"> at 5 p.m. EST.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#1D2129">If you have any questions about the proposal process, please contact the 2020 Program Committee co-chairs, Marcella Huggard (<a href="mailto:mdwiget@gmail.com" title="mailto:mdwiget@gmail.com"><span style="color:#385898">mdwiget@gmail.com</span></a>)
and Benn Joseph (<a href="mailto:benn.joseph@northwestern.edu" title="mailto:benn.joseph@northwestern.edu"><span style="color:#385898">benn.joseph@northwestern.edu</span></a>).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="color:#1D2129">For more information about possible session types, proposal evaluation, and the submission process visit the
</span><u><span style="color:#385898"><a href="https://www.midwestarchives.org/call-for-proposals-2020">MAC 2020 Call for Session Proposals website</a></span></u><span style="color:#1D2129">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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