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<b>in Columbia, SC</b>. The meeting’s theme will be “Behind the Scenes: People and Practice”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">BPE is a community of digital librarians, archivists, records managers, and other information professionals who come together annually to discuss practice, experiences, and
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failures around projects, products, staffing, grant proposals, and more. The community encourages questions that you may be nervous to ask elsewhere. It is a space for novices and experts to learn from each other with the mutual expectation of confidentiality
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