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If you are attending the 2008 ALA Midwinter Meeting, please consider
participating in the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest/Discussion
group meeting on Monday, January 14, 2008 in the Franklin 6 room of the
Marriott from 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Everybody's welcome!

The meeting will kick off with some thoughts by Karen Albert MLS AHIP,
Director of the Talbot Research Library of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in
Philadelphia. Ms. Albert was a presenter during the Medical Library
Association's November 20, 2007 webcast entitled "Scholarly Publishing and
Open Access: Straight Talk." To read more about her scholarship in this
area, please see:

Albert, K. (2006). Open access: implications for scholarly publishing and
medical libraries. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 94(3),
253-62.

Please join us for a lively and stimulating discussion!

Cynthia H. Krolikowski

Librarian III

History, Political Science, Humanities, Rare Books

134 Purdy/Kresge Library

Wayne State University

Detroit Michigan 48202

(313) 577-3311 Telephone

(313) 577-3436 Fax

ac4979@wayne.edu

(Lila) Angie Ohler

Head of Acquisitions

McKeldin Library

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

301 405-9308 (phone)

301 314-1200 (fax)

lohler@umd.edu