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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> 'Chancey Fleet' via Technology Programs at Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library <HeiskellTech@googlegroups.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 3, 2025 1:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> heiskelltech@googlegroups.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Fw: Call for Proposals: NYPL\u2019s Accessible Technology Conference 2025: Connect, Innovate, Act - October 18-19, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id=ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id=ms-outlook-mobile-signature><div><p class=MsoNormal>Any errors brought to you by iPhone! <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Chancey Fleet<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Assistive Tech Coordinator \u2014 Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Call or text: 347-632-8383 <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> Ashley Dalle <ashleydalle@nypl.org><br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 3, 2025 9:04:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> AT Conference <atconference@nypl.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Call for Proposals: NYPL\u2019s Accessible Technology Conference 2025: Connect, Innovate, Act - October 18-19, 2025</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><div><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Good morning all!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>This email is to serve as a Call for Proposals for </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><a href="https://www.nypl.org/blog/2025/05/01/call-proposals-nypls-accessible-technology-conference-2025-connect-innovate-act"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>NYPL\u2019s Accessible Technology Conference 2025: Connect, Innovate, Act</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><a href="https://forms.gle/xNjizzEXS5UPmYH26"><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Click to Submit</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Our theme this year centers around Creative Collaboration Across Communities, focusing on proposals from the following areas</span><o:p></o:p></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Community Building & Peer Support</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Creativity in Tech</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>New and Emerging Technology</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></li><li style='color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Systems of Resilience</span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Proposals should be 15, 30, 60, or 75 minutes in length, and we are encouraging proposals from first-time presenters</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Taking place Saturday, October 18\u2013Sunday, October 19 at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, The New York Public Library\u2019s Accessible Technology Conference is a free and inclusive conference focused on the impact, affordances, and evolution of accessible technologies used by Blind, low-vision, and print-disabled people.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The conference is open to all community members and is free to presenters and participants alike. Our conference team commits to a fully accessible conference, including providing accessible conference materials, hybrid participation, and other access needs. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Please email <a href="mailto:atconference@nypl.org">atconference@nypl.org</a> with any questions.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>All the best,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The Andrew Heiskell Team</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=xgmailsignatureprefix>-- </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p style='margin-bottom:0in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Ashley Dalle (she/they)<br></span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Supervising Librarian</span><span style='color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:0in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#CC0000'>Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The New York Public Library<br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>40 West 20th St, New York, NY 10011</span><span style='color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:13.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>212.621.0637 <a href="http://talkingbooks.nypl.org" target="_blank">talkingbooks.<span style='color:#1155CC'>nypl.org</span></a></span><span style='color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Technology Programs at Andrew Heiskell Braille & Talking Book Library" group.<br>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a href="mailto:HeiskellTech+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">HeiskellTech+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>