<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FYI.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="monospace, monospace">Hilton Gibson</font></b></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Stellenbosch University Library<br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><a href="http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html" target="_blank">http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html</a><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sarah Lippincott</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sarah@educopia.org">sarah@educopia.org</a>></span><br>Date: 3 June 2015 at 18:08<br>Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] Library Publishing Coalition to Expand Membership Internationally<br>To: <a href="mailto:scholcomm@lists.ala.org">scholcomm@lists.ala.org</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-size:small"><b style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Library Publishing Coalition to Expand Membership Internationally</b><br></div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE </div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">June 1, 2015 — The Library Publishing Coalition, a community-led membership association for library publishers, will expand membership to libraries outside North America, effective July 1, 2015.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The LPC supports an evolving, distributed range of publishing practices and furthers the interests of library publishers. It promotes collaboration, knowledge sharing, and networking among libraries and between libraries and other publishers, especially university presses. </div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">“Expanding our membership ensures that our members are connecting to an international community of peers and to global conversations about the role of libraries in publishing, digital scholarship, and Open Access.” says the LPC’s President, Kevin Hawkins (University of North Texas).</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The LPC connects libraries with diverse profiles, interests, and areas of expertise, from small liberal arts colleges to large research universities. Members receive access to our members-only mailing list, webinars, and a library of model documentation. They also benefit from special registration rates for LPC events, voting rights in the organization, and the opportunity for their staff to serve on committees, task forces, and the LPC’s board.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Academic and research libraries and library consortia anywhere in the world are invited to complete a membership application at <a href="http://www.librarypublishing.org/join/membership-application" target="_blank">http://www.librarypublishing.org/join/membership-application</a>. </div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">The LPC operates as an affiliated community of the Educopia Institute, a nonprofit organization that advances cultural, scientific, and scholarly institutions by catalyzing networks and collaborative communities to facilitate collective impact. Learn more about LPC and its growing network of libraries at <a href="http://www.librarypublishing.org/" target="_blank">www.librarypublishing.org</a>.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">PDF version: <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="http://bit.ly/lpcglobal2015" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/lpcglobal2015</a></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">###</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Sarah Kalikman Lippincott</b><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Program Manager</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Educopia Institute, Library Publishing Coalition</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><a href="mailto:sarah@educopia.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">sarah@educopia.org</a></div><div><a href="http://www.librarypublishing.org" target="_blank">www.librarypublishing.org</a></div><div>919-218-2516<br></div>Skype: sarah.k.lippincott<div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><a value="+19192182516" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><br></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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