Common Ground at the Nexus of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication presents concepts, experiments, collaborations, and strategies at the crossroads of the fields of scholarly communication and information literacy.This volume aims to connect key concepts and strategies fromscholarly communication and information literacy in order to helpother librarians see new opportunities within these two broad andvital areas of librarianship.  We begin our discussion with Catherine Palmer and Julia Gelfandcomparing the histories of information literacy and scholarly communication,remembering where we came from in order to set forth on anew path. That path, Palmer and Gelfand argue, is a close examinationof ALA’s Core Values of Librarianship (ALA 2004) that will interweavetwo high-impact library initiatives.