Bernadette Gray-Little, chancellor of the first public U.S. university to adopt a campus-wide open-access mandate, will be the feature speaker in the opening ceremony of the SPARC Open Access meeting this Spring. The meeting, which will showcase thought-leaders, publishers, faculty, technologists, and librarians – announced today – is expected to draw attention from policy makers on campus, as well as at the federal and international levels. The event is set for the Kansas City Intercontinental Hotel, March 12 & 13, 2012.