**With apologies for cross-posting** Dear Colleagues, American Libraries Live<https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/al-live/> will be hosting a webcast on the Open Access 2020 Initiative this coming Friday, 8 June (times listed below). The webinar will include a brief introduction to the Initiative and feature the unique perspectives of Curtis Brundy, AUL for Scholarly Communications and Collections at Iowa State University Library and Rich Schneider, PhD, Associate Professor UCSF and Chair of the University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication, University of California, discussing why their organizations have signed the OA2020 Expression of Interest<https://oa2020.org/mission/> and are supporting the Initiative. To register for the webcast which is free and open to all interested parties, please follow this link: https://alapublishing.webex.com/alapublishing/onstage/g.php?MTID=e32f6dcd00477a73be877f96305a9398a. The full announcement from American Libraries can be found here: http://ala-publishing.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT03Njc0NTU3JnA9MSZ1PTEwMzEzNTY2NzgmbGk9NTUzNzg2ODA/index.html American Libraries Live Webcast: Open Access 2020: Looking at the Future Date: Friday, June 8, 2018 13:00 Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) = 18:00 British Summer Time (London, GMT +01:00) Cheers, Colleen Colleen Campbell OA2020 Partner Development Max Planck Digital Library +49 160 9725 1536 @ColleenCampbe11 https://oa2020.org<https://oa2020.org/> lis-e-resources is a UKSG list - http://www.uksg.org UKSG groups also available on Facebook and LinkedIn Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/UKSG