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Hi CODE4LIB Community! The Emerging Technologies Committee of Music Library Association is organizing a Tech Camp this year as a preconference before the MLA Annual meeting in Portland, OR. Distribute widely! We are hoping to have a full house for this preconference. Here is the official snazzy blog post about the event: http://conferences. blog.musiclibraryassoc.org/2017/07/26/techcamp_announce/ Here is the TLDR version: The Emerging Technologies and Services Committee of the Music Library Association (MLA) is hosting a one day pre-conference workshop before the MLA annual meeting in Portland, OR to enhance skill sets of librarians, humanists, and technologists who work or want to work with digital objects and data. Registration opens October 15 <http://conferences.blog.musiclibraryassoc.org/pre-mla-events/pre-conference/#> . When: January 31, 2018, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Where: Hilton Portland & Executive Tower (the MLA Conference Hotel) What: Hands-on Workshops 1. Introduction to processing born digital content Instructor: Jonathan Manton (Music Librarian for Access Services,Yale University) 2. Introduction to Data Manipulation and Visualization in R Instructor: Francesca Giannetii (Digital Humanities Librarian, Rutgers University-New Brunswick) 3. Fair use and digital projects Instructor: Kathleen DeLaurenti (Arts Librarian, William & Mary) What: Lightning shorts by participants We want to hear what digital projects are keeping your busy and what tools you use to make your workflows work. Cost: $50 Extra Perks: Certificate of completion to support continuing education More information: http://bit.ly/mlatechcamp2018 We will be tweeting using the hashtag #mlatechcamp If you have further questions please don't hesitate to drop me a line! Michelle Urberg (maurberg @ gmail.com) On behalf of the ETSC