Greetings Colleagues, I trust you're well. Today I'm celebrating Private First Class William H. Thomas, who in 1951 became the first African-American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. During the Korean War, Thomas sacrificed his life to allow the rest of his unit to escape a group of enemy soldiers. Thomas received the Medal of Honor for actions while serving in a segregated unit. Transforming Libraries for the 21st Century and Beyond: Sustaining the HBCU Library Alliance The 6th Membership Meeting is scheduled in Atlanta, Sunday through Tuesday, October 26-28. Paste this link http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/2014meeting-form.html into your address bar and register as soon as possible. Keynote Speaker Lorraine Haricombe, Dean of Libraries, University of Kansas and Steering Committee Chair, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), is our keynote speaker. Digital Library Federation Forum - October 27-29, Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, GA Board Chair Cynthia Henderson and I have been asked to present on October 29th. The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a program of the Council of Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and serves as a catalyst for collaboration among digital library developers and those invested in digital library issues. Paste this link http://www.diglib.org/ into your address bar to visit the DLF website. The DLF is inviting the membership to attend the October 29th forum. Panels, workshops and a closing keynote are scheduled. Paste this link https://2014dlfforum.eventbrite.com/?access=DLFwelcomesHBCULA1030 into your address bar and select the "HBCU Library Alliance One-Day" free ticket. Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center is located in Midtown Atlanta at 800 Spring St NW, Atlanta, GA 30308. I do hope you will support our participation in this forum. Contact me directly if you have questions or need additional information. I look forward, with great excitement, to your participation at the Membership Meeting and attendance at the Digital Library Federation Forum. Respectfully, Sandra SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/2014meeting-form.html for the October 26-28, 2014 HBCU Library Alliance 6th Membership Meeting in Atlanta GA!