The Steering Committee of the Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) will meet in the Dallas Convention Center, Room D225, on Sunday, January 22, 2012, starting at 10:30 a.m.

All are welcome at this open meeting.

CIFNAL’s goals are to improve access to French and French-language resources for North American partners as well as access to North American resources for French and Francophone partners, and to encourage collaboration between North American and Francophone institutiions, endeavoring to develop connections between the collections.

CIFNAL has entered consortial agreements for electronic products critical to the study of the French language, including Le Grand Robert, CAIRN, and the Electronic Enlightenment.