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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Please excuse multiple postings.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white"><a href="https://commerce.cashnet.com/cashnetc/selfserve/BrowseCatalog.aspx">Register now</a> for this year's
<a href="http://www.kent.edu/slis/csir-annual-conference-information-religion">Conference on Information and Religion</a>, scheduled
<b><u>for June 5</u></b> at Kent State University. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white">The keynote speaker this year is David H. Michels, M.L.I.S., Ph.D., Head of Public Services, Sir James Dunn Law Library, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, author of
the blog “Informing Faith.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white">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-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white">Under the conference theme "New Technologies and Religious Communities," you'll hear presentations on
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white">"Expanding Outreach: there's an app for that";
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white">"Relying upon the Sangha as Information Practice: An example from Facebook";
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white">"Reel Religion and Real Clergy: A comparison of information use by the fictional and factual faithful";
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</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white">"S<span class="textexposedshow">ocial media and mainline Protestant church communities in the Middle West";
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white">"Digital Confessions -</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/fatherforgiveme?source=feed_text&story_id=932343550149279"><span class="58cl"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></span><span class="58cl"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">#</span></span><span class="58cm"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">fatherforgiveme</span></span></a>";
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white">"The Use of Reality Television and Social Media by Mormon Fundamentalist Groups. Changing Representations, Minds, and Laws";
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white">"Faith Thinking Foundations: Online Religious (Meta)Literacy Education Within a Congregational Context";
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></span><![endif]><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white">"The Crossroads of Embracing Content Management: Using the BeagleBone Black Microcomputer to Host Omeka";
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white">"Informative, Formative, and Transformative Reading in Christianity and Islam".</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";background:white"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">And more!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Read more about the conference:
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The conference is hosted by the
<a href="http://www.kent.edu/slis/csir">Center for the Study of Religion and Information</a> in Kent State’s
<a href="http://www.kent.edu/slis">School of Library and Information Science</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Flo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~>~<~><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Flo Cunningham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Marketing Communications and Public Relations Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">School of Library and Information Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Kent State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">330-672-0003<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><a href="mailto:fcunning@kent.edu"><span style="color:windowtext">fcunning@kent.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><a href="http://www.kent.edu/slis"><span style="color:windowtext">www.kent.edu/slis</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:windowtext">https://www.facebook.com/ksuslis</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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