<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Greetings. I have updated my blog <<a href="http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/">http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/</a>> for your interest:<br><br>From my old school files: “Scholarly communication, electronic content and ‘open access’”<br><a href="http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/from-my-old-school-files-scholarly-communication-electronic-content-and-open-access/">http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/from-my-old-school-files-scholarly-communication-electronic-content-and-open-access/</a><br><br>I graduated from the School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS), University of Arizona, Tucson, in December 2004 to facilitate a mid-career shift from church/pastoral ministry back into the academic world as a librarian.<br><br>The decision to enter academic librarianship at this moment in time has proven to be among the best I have ever made. I have been able to witness and (more importantly) directly participate in dramatic changes impacting the nature and role of the library in the digital age. It has been personally very exciting and extremely energizing.<br><br>Witnessing and participating in the rapidly changing scholarly communication landscape has been one aspect of academic librarianship of particular interest to me. I latched onto this early in my career preparation. Clearly, I was bringing the scholarly disposition with me into this shift. But there were new things I was to learn about this communication process of which I was previously unaware, including the assumptions of the existing system, and the disruptive forces—like the Internet as a platform for dissemination, and the fledgling Open Access Movement—that would help to drive that change.<br><br>I was rooting-around in my old school files the other day and found a research proposal I had submitted to Professor William Welburn for the semester paper assignment in IRLS 504: Foundations of Library and Information Science, dated March 4, 2004. The proposal is entitled “Scholarly communication, electronic content and ‘open access.’” For archival purposes, as well as a reminder to myself of how I started down this path of interest in open access, I thought I would transcribe the proposal here...<br><br>Your comments are welcome.<div><br></div><div>Gary F. Daught</div><div>Omega Alpha Open Access</div><div>gfdaught @ <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a></div><div><a href="http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com">http://oaopenaccess.wordpress.com</a></div></body></html>