SPARC and ACRL announce Chicago ALA forum will focus on the economy

The next SPARC-ACRL forum on emerging issues in scholarly communication, to be held at the Chicago meeting of the American Library Association in July, will explore "Rough waters: Navigating hard times in the scholarly communication marketplace." The forum is co-sponsored by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and the Association of College and Research Libraries. The 19th biennial SPARC-ACRL Forum will be held July 11, 2009 from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM at the Sheraton Chicago. The ACRL Scholarly Communications discussion group, which offers a more intimate setting to explore forum topics in greater depth, will be held July 12, from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM at the Intercontinental Hotel