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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello past and future attendees of the Northwest Institutional Repository User Group (NWIRUG) Meeting,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Each year, each of us makes an effort to decide how to best use our professional development funds. The lucky few can choose multiple options among the many possibilities, while
the majority of us are lucky to attend one meeting or conference a year. After making that difficult decision, you might often find yourself attending your chosen destination thinking, ‘I was hoping this would be more useful. I could be back at work getting
some of my growing pile of responsibilities taken care of.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This realization prompted us to rethink the annual NWIRUG Meeting. One change we are trying is making this a biennial meeting, meaning there will be no meeting this year (2019)
but there will be a meeting next year (2020). The rest of the changes depend on your feedback. We want your feedback which will help us make the event more meaningful and give you something to look forward to instead of being just another possibility on your
list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We know that you might prefer to come to the NWIRUG Meeting every year, but for now you will have the ability to explore other meetings in the off year and bring your ideas to
us in 2020. Right now, the biggest way you can help us make a better event is to fill out this very short survey:
<a href="https://forms.gle/BqkP6dvB5EsLMbUo9">https://forms.gle/BqkP6dvB5EsLMbUo9</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Now go get some work done (after filling out the survey)! Many thanks from those of us who put this show together.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Talea Anderson, Washington State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Karen Bjork, Portland State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Joseph Cera, Berkeley Law, University of California<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Johanna Meetz, Pacific University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kathleen Spring, Linfield College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Kathleen Spring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">DigitalCommons Coordinator/Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Jereld R. Nicholson Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Linfield College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">503-883-2263<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:digitalcommons@linfield.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">digitalcommons@linfield.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Office hours: Sunday-Thursday</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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