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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">We are happy to announce the release of
<i class="">Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care: An Invitation to Reflect and Share</i>. You can access a copy of the paper here: <a href="http://themaintainers.org/info-mc-work" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">http://themaintainers.org/info-mc-work</a> .<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">In this piece we begin to describe intersections of information maintenance and care ethics in ways that are real and meaningful for information maintainers. By “information maintainers” we mean those who
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">The contributors to this document each have varied experiences with information maintenance. We are community organizers and facilitators, archivists, repository managers, project managers, designers, librarians,
researchers, grantmakers, educators and more. This invitation is directed toward occupations and roles for which we feel that an understanding of the relationship between information maintenance and an ethic of care is especially valuable. We invite you to
read, react, share engage with this potluck of ideas. Please circulate widely!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;" class="">If you see yourself and work represented in this invitation, we ask you to join us and contribute to the Information Maintainers community. For more on who we are and how we work, please visit <a href="http://themaintainers.org/info-mc-about-us" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">http://themaintainers.org/info-mc-about-us</a> .<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Mark A. Parsons</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Senior Research Scientist</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Tetherless World Constellation</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://tw.rpi.edu/" class="">http://tw.rpi.edu</a> </div>
<div style="margin: 0px;" class=""> +1 303 941 9986</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">Skype: mark.a.parsons</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;" class="">mail: 1550 Linden Ave., Boulder CO 80304, USA</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7723-0950" class="">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7723-0950</a> </div>
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