 Good afternoon. My name is John Haken, and I'm the Executive Director of the United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association. The US ETDA is a national nonprofit organization representing the community and interests of graduate school and library professionals and others who work with graduate students and faculty, electronic theses and dissertations, institutional repositories, and scholarly communications issues. On behalf of our Board of Directors, I'd like to extend a warm welcome to everyone to you as you join us here today at US ETDA 2021, our 11th annual conference. This year's theme is Making Connections, Scholarly Communications, and the Digital Age. We hope that you will learn from the insights and experiences of our presenters and share your own thoughts as we begin our journey exploring the many facets of ETDs. Over the past decade, the US ETDA conferences have been held across the United States. We've been to our land, Denver, Colorado, Charleston, South Carolina, and today we have over a hundred people attending the 2021 conference. I'd like to introduce the US ETDA Board of Directors who, as members of the conference planning committee, have helped organize this event. I'd also like to thank everyone for your enthusiasm and thoughtfulness as we organize our second virtual conference. So I'd like to ask our board members, as I announce you, to just say hi in the chat window, if you will, and we'll try and familiarize each other. So our board members are Heidi, RBC-Kelm, Valerie Emerson, Sally Evans, Lucy Ella Fazino, who serves as our board secretary, Terri Green, who serves as our board treasurer and also our programming committee chair, Janice Robinson, Terri Robinson, Cynthia Tendongan, Stacey Wallace, Emily Wookner, and Aura Young. So, as always, it takes a team effort and I couldn't do it without the board and with everyone's help. If you're interested in surfing on the US ETDA Board, feel free to contact us. We'd love to hear from you. You'll find our application on our website. Please help me to... Here we are. Okay, please help me to thank our sponsors for their generosity in helping make this event possible. We couldn't have done it without you. So thanks to the Ohio ETDA Association, ProQuest, FigShare, Overleaf, Renaissance Scholar of Communications, Texas Digital Library, the University of Florida Libraries, and the Virginia Tech University Graduate School and University Libraries. And don't forget to visit our virtual expo in Hoppin for more information about our sponsors and to contact their representatives. I'd also like to acknowledge and thank our host institution, the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, which is providing the Hoppin streams for today's conference. So we want to remind everyone that today's Hoppin meeting sessions will be recorded and available for later viewing in Hoppin through the end of the conference. Later in this semester, we'll post the videos to the US ETDA YouTube channel. So the advantage here, obviously, being with us today, you can interact with our panelists and be part of the big discussion. So we've also posted copies of the presentations, PowerPoints, papers, and write-ups in our online conference proceedings. And the conference program and the program schedule are also available online from our website and also in the Hoppin schedule as you jump into either stage or sessions. So if you like today's conference, please consider joining the US ETDA as a member institution. The dues are only $100 annually and there are many benefits for members and it helps sustain the organization and support our annual conferences. If you need assistance along the way, feel free to contact a virtual help desk, our Hoppin host, Jennifer Armour, will be happy to assist you. Join us at the US ETDA 2022 conference to be held live in theory at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio next September 21st through the 23rd. Alternatively, if all else fails, I'm sure we'll meet again here virtually next year, but hopefully we'll be back live again. Consider hosting the US ETDA 2023 conference in your city or on your campus. The US ETDA board handles all the planning, financing, and logistics. We simply need partners to assist with organizing local tasks. Would you like to learn even more about ETDs? The registration is free for the virtual ETD 2021 symposium to be held November 16th and 17th. They're also offering a variety of pre and post conference workshops and this year their theme is Open Scholarship in a Post-Pandemic World. For more information, visit thendltd.org. And finally, I'd like to thank our presenters for sharing your experiences and wisdom with our audience today. I'd also like to thank you, our audience participants, for your devoted attention and your contributions to the ETD community by being here with us today. We have an outstanding program planned for today and tomorrow, so let's get started, shall we?