Forwarded from the University of Maryland School of Information Studies listserv on behalf of the ARLIS/NA Public Policy Committee. Roger Lawson, ARLIS/NA Public Policy Committee co-chair >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dear Colleague, I want to apprise you of an exciting opportunity occurring this December in Washington, DC. On December 5th and 6th, the 13th international Conference on Grey Literature will be taking place at the Library of Congress. GreyNet, headquartered in Amsterdam, is an organization devoted to the study of grey literature. This organization is truly interdisciplinary and attracts membership from many areas of study and from many countries. For more information about GreyNet, please go to http://www.greynet.org. We are particularly interested in having involvement from the library and information science community. We want to invite your faculty to register and to attend this conference. As importantly, we want to involve students in the study of grey literature. We would like to invite your faculty and students to attend and to participate in a poster session involving research topics in grey literature or successful grey literature programs. For more information about involvement in this conference and information about the poster session, please contact the GL13 Program and Conference Bureau, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Up to 10 posters from LIS graduate students will be accepted on the Conference Program. And, these students will be exempt from the conference fee. Furthermore, all other LIS students are eligible for a discounted conference fee, http://www.textrelease.com/gl13registration.html . Sincerely, Blane Dessy, Executive Director FLICC/FEDLINK Library of Congress and Chair, Planning Committee GL13 Conference ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~