Get ready! Thursday, Feb. 15 is the National Day of Action for Open Access. Several of our chapters across the country will be hosting events — here they are:

• University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
  Tabling: 11 am – 3 pm, Reitz Union Colonnade
  Panel: 7 pm, CSE room E221 (co-sponsored with UAEM)
  Speakers: Gavin Baker, Free Culture; Ashley Wills, UAEM; Stephanie Haas, Digital Library Center
  Contact: Gavin Baker
• University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
  Panel: 3 pm, Annenberg Center for Communication, 734 West Adams Blvd.
  Speakers: Cory Doctorow, Sasha Chock
  Contact: Cameron Parkins
• Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
  Tabling: during lunch and dinner, top of dining hall (Sharples)
  Panel: 7:30 pm, Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall
  Contact: Nicholas LaRacuente
• Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
  Event: 4:30 pm, press conference at Woodruff Library North Entrance
  Contact: Brian Pitts
• Emerson College (Boston, MA)
  Tabling: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm, around 80 Boylston St.
  Contact: Erin O’Brien
• Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
  Event: Handing out Open Access bookmarks to students throughout the day and distributing them to Harvard’s major libraries. Holding a forum the following week and submitting an Op-ed to the Harvard Crimson.
  Contact: Elizabeth Stark
• MIT (Cambridge, MA)
  Event: Placing pricetags on journals at the MIT libraries and distributing Open Access Bookmarks to students and libraries throughout the day.
  Contact: Mako Hill
• Northeastern University (Boston, MA)
  Event: Handing out Open Access Bookmarks to students and distributing to libraries throughout the day.
  Tabling: 2-4 pm, Main Library
  Contact: Christopher Budnick
• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
  Tabling: 11 am – 1:30 pm, Locust Walk
  Contact: Steve McLaughlin
• Reed College (Portland, OR)
  Tabling: 11:30 am – 2:30 pm, in front of the cafeteria
  Contact: Max Berger
• Chadwick School (Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA)
  Tabling: 12:30 – 1:45 pm, Main deck (outside Christensen)
  Contact: D. Parker Phinney
• New York University (New York, NY)
  Will publish audio/video from the Taking Action on Open Access event.
  Contact: Fred Benenson

The following chapters have also said they’d be participating — contact them for details:

• University of Evansville (Evansville, IN)
  Contact: Andy Scudder
• Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, PA)
  Contact: Ben DeRogatis
• Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
  Contact: David Riordan
• Claremont Colleges (Claremont, CA)
  Contact: Karen Rustad
• Columbia University (New York, NY)
  Contact: Brendan Ballou
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
  Contact: Erin Watson

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