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Dear State Library Association Colleagues,

My name is Scott St. Louis, and I serve as a librarian in the Research Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. (My last name is a happy coincidence!)

The St. Louis Fed will be hosting a conference in November that might be of interest to some of your members.

Please see our call for proposals at the link below. Would you share this call for proposals with your members? If so, we would appreciate it greatly. Thank you for your consideration!

Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have any questions. You can reach me at [log in to unmask].

Call for Proposals - Beyond the Numbers 2022 (stlouisfed.org)


Beyond the Numbers 2022

Beyond the Numbers – November 8-10, 2022

Call for Proposals

Submission deadline: June 30, 2022 (will be extended to mid-July)

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis seeks submissions for its biennial conference on economic information. This conference will bring together librarians, information professionals, data researchers, and data managers to improve understanding of economic resources and how to find, use, and share them.

Please submit your proposals via email to [log in to unmask]

We encourage users, educators, creators, curators, and managers of economic, business, and financial information to share their expertise and provide insights into the challenges they face. If you have attended before, consider presenting and sharing your expertise!

Possible topics include:

· New, misunderstood, or underused economic information tools and sources

· Managing data for access, preservation, sharing, and re-use 

· Library instruction using economic data: case studies, best practices

· Alternative and digital data: trends and developments in the use of non-traditional sources of data for economics research

· Sources for economic data related to the pandemic 

· Accessing data via APIs and data clean up

· Economic data visualization: best practices, tools, what to avoid

· Open information for economics: sources, issues, trends, and developments

· Finding hidden economic information (papers and data stored in institutional repositories)

· Best practices for promoting the FAIR principles (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reuse) 

· Data ethics as part of data literacy: key concepts and principles, integration into data reference and instruction

Presentation types include:

· Lightning talks: 5-7 minutes

· Short sessions: 20 minutes

· Sessions, Panels, Workshops:  45-minute full sessions (will consider up to 90 min max)

Abstracts for each proposal should be no more than 250 words. For presentations and panel discussions, clearly state the aim of the presentation, the topic, and the specific knowledge attendees will gain. 

All proposals will be reviewed by the conference organizing committee

Please submit your proposals via email to [log in to unmask]

Please include the following information in your submission:

· Title:

· Presenter(s):

· Presenter affiliation:

· Presenter email(s):

· Presentation type:

· Abstract (250 words):

Scott St. Louis

Scholarly Communication and Discovery Services Librarian

Research Division

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

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