Register by this Friday, September 11, for the ARL Fall Forum 2015, “Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences,” to be held in Washington, DC, on Thursday, October 8.

This daylong event launches the Julia C. Blixrud Memorial Lecture along with the Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship, which will support the attendance of one master of library and information science (MLIS) student or recent graduate at the ARL Fall Forum each year. The inaugural Blixrud Memorial Lecture will be presented by Tara McPherson, associate professor of critical studies in the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.

Additional program sessions will explore emerging publishing models in the humanities and social sciences as well as funding strategies for research partnerships across institutions and across borders.

The ARL Fall Forum will be held at the Dupont Circle Hotel in Washington, DC. The cutoff date for reserving hotel rooms at the ARL rate of $279 (single/double) is Friday, September 11, 2015. You may make your hotel reservation by calling the Dupont Circle Hotel at (202) 483-6000 and asking for the “Association of Research Libraries room block.” You may also make your reservation via the Dupont Circle Hotel website—click “Room Block Code” and add the code of ASSO041015_001.

Register online for the ARL Fall Forum by Friday, September 11, 2015. The registration fee is $275 for anyone affiliated with an ARL member institution, CNI member institution, or SPARC member institution; registration is $300 for all others. This fee includes a continental breakfast, coffee/tea breaks, and lunch.

For more details, including a preliminary program schedule, visit the ARL Fall Forum 2015 website. Please direct questions about the forum to Sue Baughman, ARL deputy executive director, sue@arl.org.

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