Dear Colleagues, As many of you are undoubtedly aware, we will be celebrating the first ever Open Access Week from October 19-23, 2009. This presents a great opportunity for libraries to raise OA awareness among our patrons and faculty, and to advocate to our larger institutions and communities. An Open Access Week website has been created to help you learn more: http://www.openaccessweek.org/ The Open Access Directory Wiki maintains a list of activities that are planned for Open Access Week. If your library is planning an event, an announcement, or even if you're just putting together a webpage, then we'd really encourage you to share that information with everyone by updating the OAD wiki: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/ We look forward to hearing about your plans. Lisa Goddard & Leah Vanderjagt CLA Open Access Interest Group Co-convenors lgoddard@xxxxxx leah.vanderjagt@xxxxxxxxxxx