Steve Hiller et al., eds.
2009 | ISBN 1-59407-814-9 | EAN 9781594078149 | 552 pages
$150, plus shipping and handling (print or CD-ROM)
This second Library Assessment Conference—following the successful 2006 conference in Charlottesville, Virginia—brought together over 375 participants from libraries, information schools, associations, library systems, and vendors for four days of assessment presentations, poster sessions, discussions, and workshops. The proceedings contain more than 60 papers spanning assessment activities in libraries, information literacy, library as place, organizational culture, management information, using assessment data for change, assessment methods, reference evaluation, LibQUAL+®, statistical data, program impact/evaluation, usability, e-metrics, and more.
RLI issue 267 includes:
- Introduction: A Special Issue on Distinctive Collections
- Special Collections at the Cusp of the Digital Age: A Credo
- Moving Special Collections Forward in an Age of Discovery: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum
- The Collaborative Imperative: Special Collections in the Digital Age
- The Changing Role of Special Collections in Scholarly Communications
To amend title 17, United States Code, to allow abandoned copyrighted works to enter the public domain after 50 years. View document(s) here »
RLI issue 264 includes the following articles:
- ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Clauses
- The Case for Regulating Google and the Proposed Book Rights Registry
- Learning and Research Spaces in ARL Libraries: Snapshots of Installations and Experiments
- A Different Kind of Conversation: The Sparky Awards and Fresh Views on Change in Scholarly Communication
- ARL Selects Research Library Leadership Fellows for 2009 10
Terms:2005–2009, Google Books, Leadership, Licensing, Publications, Research Library Issues, Scholarly Communication, Space, Facilities, and Services, Text
RLI issue 262 includes the following articles:
- The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship: A Call to Action
- ARL Statement to Scholarly Publishers on the Global Economic Crisis
- Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum
- ARL Statistics: Redefining Serial Counts and Remaining Relevant in the 21st Century
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Philip N. Cronenwett, Kevin Osborn, Samuel A. Streit, eds. • 2007 • ISBN 978-1-59407-769-2 • 312 pp., 402 illus., index
This compendium includes 118 special collection profiles, each from a different ARL member library. Each profile is illustrated with color photographs and tells a story of a single collection, recounting how the resources were acquired and developed. Also included is an introductory essay by British rare book expert Nicolas Barker and an appendix that provides a broad description of each library's special collection holdings and pertinent contact information. The book contains a detailed index; the companion Web site provides a search engine.
Print copies are also available for $135 ($115 ARL members) plus shipping & handling.
RLI issue 266 includes:
- Removing All Restrictions Cornell’s New Policy on Use of Public Domain Reproductions
- Evolving Preservation Roles and Responsibilities of Research Libraries
- SPARC Explores Income Models for Supporting Open-Access Journals
- ARL Salary Survey Highlights
RLI issue 265: Special Issue on Liaison Librarian Roles includes the following articles:
- Introduction: Positioning Liaison Librarians for the 21st Century
- A Framework for Articulating New Library Roles
- Amplifying the Educational Role of Librarians
- The Last Mile: Liaison Roles in Curating Science and Engineering Research Data
- Scholarly Communications: Planning for the Integration of Liaison Librarian Roles
- New Roles of Liaison Librarians: A Liaison s Perspective
RLI issue 263 includes the following articles:
- Diversity in Research Universities
- An Overview of ARL Diversity Programs
- Digital Scholarly Communication: A Snapshot of Current Trends
- Strategies for Supporting New Genres of Scholarship
- Achieving the Full Potential of Repository Deposit Policies
- Author-Rights Language in Library Content License
This document lists presenters for the October 2005 symposium, The Future of Government Documents in ARL Libraries, which brought together practitioners and administrators to address this important issue and was sponsored by ARL.
gov-docs-symposium-presenters-oct2005.pdf
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