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CALL FOR SESSION 
PROPOSALS:  
Best Practices Exchange 
(BPE) 2011:  “Distilling Digital 
Collections”
 
We are seeking proposals 
for sessions to be presented at the 6th annual
Best Practices Exchange (BPE), which will be held in 
Lexington, KY,
at the Hyatt Regency hotel, October 
20-22, 2011. The BPE is a
conference that focuses on the management of 
digital information in
state government, and it brings together practitioners 
to discuss their
real-world experiences, including best practices and lessons 
learned.
 
Following the format of 
past Best Practices Exchanges we 
encourage you, the attendees, to present your projects and experiences, 
successes, failures and lessons learned. This year's conference has four broad 
tracks. Each track is enumerated below,
along with a list of themes embraced 
by each track. We ask that potential speakers be guided, but not limited, by the 
themes indicated.  
 
Each session will be 90 
minutes long with two or more speakers per session.  We ask that you keep presentations to 10-15 
minutes to allow for discussion and engagement with the audience.  Proposals should include an abstract 
of 100 words or less, the proposed track (if applicable), and the name, title, 
email, phone number and organization of each presenter.  You 
may submit a proposal for one speaker, which will then be paired with others by 
the program committee; or a proposal for a full session with multiple speakers (please contact and confirm the other 
speakers prior to submission.)  For 
more information about proposals, please see the “Presentations” page on the 
website at:  http://www.bpexchange.org/2011/?page_id=16 
 
1) Access:  Online access; should everything be 
accessible; FOIA/Open Records issues; legal issues with 
access
 
2)Sustainability:  Budget/funding issues; technology (IT 
consolidation, lack of IT support); life after the grant; evaluation, 
statistics, and user feedback.
 
3) Digital Projects:  Lessons learned; what worked and what didn’t; 
solutions; new tools or services
 
4) Collaboration and Community: Support 
groups and user communities; shared  services; user services; library/archives 
crossovers
 
Proposals are due by September 15, 
2011.  Please send all session proposals to Mark 
Myers, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, [log in to unmask] .
 
(The hotel costs will be 
$139/night and conference registration will be $125.  We are finalizing the details on how we are 
going to process registrations.  Registration information will be posted to the website:  www.bpexchange.org/2011soon.)  

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