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T. Scott Plutchak has been Associate Professor and Director of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) since 1995. From 1999 through 2005 he was the editor of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA). He is a founding member of the Chicago Collaborative, a group dedicated to finding common ground among the librarian, publisher and editorial communities. In 2009 he was a member of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, which was formed at the request of the US House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology to develop recommendations for providing public access to federally funded research results – their report was issued in January 2010. He is a frequent speaker to publisher and library groups on topics ranging from intellectual property to scholarly communication to the future of librarianship. He leads the international librarian rock band, The Bearded Pigs.
