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The RDMLA Symposium is a way to further engage the RDMLA community and to discuss trending and timely topics in RDM, with the inaugural theme “Data and Communities: Intersections of Truth, Silence, Access, and Identity.” This one-day virtual event is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about the unexplored gaps and margins in our understanding and use of data, how data is used to define the borders/boundaries of communities, the ways the use of data legitimizes and delegitimizes certain viewpoints, and the consequences of the ways we define, process, code, and analyze data.

The Symposium was held virtually on Friday, April 22, 2022. Visit the Symposium website here.

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RDMLA Leadership:

Elaine Martin, D.A., Director and Chief Administrative Officer, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Rong Tang, Ph.D., Professor, Simmons University, School of Library and Information Science
Gwen Evans, Vice President, Global Library Relations, Elsevier

RDMLA 2022 Symposium Planning Committee:

Andrew Creamer, Brown University Library
A’Llyn Ettien, Alumni Medical Library, Boston University
Ashley Thomas, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Danielle Pollock, School of Library and Information Science, Simmons University
Danielle Westmark, McGoogan Health Sciences Library, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Iris Jahng, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Rebecca Morin, Hirsh Health Sciences Library, Tufts University
Scott Lapinski, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School