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Editorial Calendar, September 2014 to July/August 2015

ACRL 2015 Local Arrangements Article (Introduction to Portland)ACRL at ALA Annual Conference Call for ACRL Award Nominations 75th Anniversary articleScholarly Communication75th Anniversary article

ACRL 2015 Local Arrangements Article (Arts, culture, and sports)Scholarly Communication75th Anniversary articleInternet Resources on linked dataACRL Diversity Standards

ACRL 2015 Local Arrangements Article (Neighborhoods)Internet Resources on the history of medicineScholarly Communication75th Anniversary article

ACRL Annual Report 2013–2014 Scholarly Communication75th Anniversary articleALA Midwinter Meeting InformationInternet Resources on labor unionsScholarly CommunicationDistributed at ALA Midwinter MeetingMidwinter meeting cover

ACRL 2015 Local Arrangements Article (Outdoors/ nature)ACRL Candidates for 2015Scholarly Communication75th Anniversary articleInternet Resources on outsider artDistributed at ALA Midwinter MeetingACRL 2015 cover

ACRL 2015 Local Arrangements Article (Dining)Candidates for ACRL Vice-President/President-Elect Scholarly Communication75th Anniversary articleInternet Resources TBD

ACRL at the ALA Midwinter MeetingCandidates for ALA PresidentScholarly Communication75th Anniversary articleInternet Resources TBDDistributed at ACRL 2015ACRL 2015 cover

Academic/Research Librarian of the Year and Other ACRL AwardsScholarly Communication75th Anniversary articleInternet Resources TBDLibrarian of the year cover

ACRL Awards, 2nd installment ALA Annual Conference Information Scholarly Communication75th Anniversary articleInternet Resources TBDDistributed at Annual ConferenceAnnual Conference cover

ACRL Election Results Scholarly Communication75th Anniversary articleInternet Resources TBDDistributed at Annual Conference

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