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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:white">Registration is now open for the 2015 Conference on Information and Religion, scheduled for June 5 at Kent State University. The conference
theme is "New Technologies and Religious Communities." </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">For details, including a link to registration, information on transportation and housing, visit
<a href="http://www.kent.edu/slis/csir-annual-conference-information-religion">http://www.kent.edu/slis/csir-annual-conference-information-religion</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:#141823;background:white">Our keynote speaker this year is
<b>David H. Michels</b>, Ph.D., Head of Public Services, Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, author of the blog “Informing Faith.” Dr. Michels will speak on "Transforming Religion in the Information Age": New information
technologies are increasingly being adopted by religious organizations to support worship, instruction, communication, and engagement with the wider community. How does their use transform the nature of social interactions and religious community — “koinonia”
— and where are these changes taking us in the information age?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">The schedule features
<a href="http://digitalcommons.kent.edu/acir/2015/">23 academic presentations</a> in three tracks: technology (8), religious communities (12) and librarianship (3).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">Flo Cunningham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">Marketing Communications and Public Relations Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">School of Library and Information Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">Kent State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"">I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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