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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19pt;">BPE 2026 Registration Open and Schedule Published</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">Registration is now open for the Best Practices Exchange (Un)Conference, which will be held May 18-20, 2026, at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering
at Indiana University Indianapolis (in downtown Indianapolis, IN). </span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">for the 2026 Best Practices Exchange</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-weight: 700;">.
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">Space is limited, so don’t delay!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-weight: 700;"> Registration
closes May 4th.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-weight: 700;">View the schedule and session descriptions, now available online:
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-weight: 700;">Best Practices Exchange (BPE)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"> is a community of practitioners
who manage digital information that meets annually to share our experiences and have honest conversations about the work that we do. This conference is a great opportunity to share, question, and learn from colleagues across a spectrum of government, academic,
and cultural organizations. See the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://bpexchange.wordpress.com/2026-conference/" id="OWA4626444a-d6f1-03d0-bf66-2ce167861fee" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>2026
Conference page </u></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">for more information.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);">The Filson Historical Society</span></p>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Filson Historical Society resides on the ancestral homeland of the Cherokee, Delaware, Miami, Osage, and Shawnee Nations. The Chickasaw, Quapaw, and other Native Nations have also called the land now known as Kentucky
home. As a guest on these lands, I extend my respect and gratitude to the many Indigenous peoples, past and present, who have called these lands home.</span></div>
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