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Research Library Issues, no. 272 (Oct. 2010): 21st-Century Research Library Workforce

RLI issue 272 includes:

  • Developing a Vital Research Library Workforce
  • Transforming Roles for Academic Librarians: Leading and Participating in New Partnerships
  • Restructuring at UCLA Library
  • Understanding the Organizational Value of Post–Master’s Degree Residency Programs
 
 

Research Library Issues, no. 271 (Aug. 2010): Special Issue on Value in Libraries: Assessing Organizational Performance

RLI issue 271 includes:

  • Library Value May Be Proven, If Not Self-Evident
  • A Decade of Assessment at a Research-Extensive University Library Using LibQUAL+®
  • LibQUAL+® and the “Library as Place” at the University of Glasgow
  • Service Quality Assessment with LibQUAL+® in Challenging Times: LibQUAL+® at Cranfield University
  • ARL Profiles: Qualitative Descriptions of Research Libraries in the Early 21st Century
  • The ARL Library Scorecard Pilot: Using the Balanced Scorecard in Research Libraries
  • Lib-Value: Measuring Value and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries
  • The Value of Electronic Resources: Measuring the Impact of Networked Electronic Services (MINES for Libraries®) at the Ontario Council of University Libraries
 
 

Research Library Issues, no. 269 (April 2010): Special Issue on Strategies for Opening Up Content

RLI issue 269 includes:

  • Strategies for Opening Up Content: Laying the Groundwork for an Open System of Scholarship
  • Achieving Consensus on the University of Kansas Open-Access Policy
  • Improving Access with Open-Access Publishing Funds
  • Model Language for Author Rights in Library Content Licenses
  • Opening Up Content in HathiTrust: Using HathiTrust Permissions Agreements to Make Authors’ Work Available
 
 

Research Library Issues, no. 267 (Dec. 2009): Special Issue on Distinctive Collections

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
 
 

Research Library Issues, no. 265 (Aug. 2009)

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
 
 

Licensing E-Journal Bundles from Large Publishers

magazine-stackimage © thebittenword.comARL has released a pre-publication version of an article on “The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012,” which will be featured in the forthcoming Research Library Issues no. 282 (Spring 2013).

 
 

Research Library Issues, no. 270 (June 2010)

RLI issue 270 includes:

  • Celebrating 10 Years of ARL’s Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce
  • ETDs and Graduate Education: Programs and Prospects
  • Urban Copyright Legends
  • Open Access Week: Library Strategies for Advancing Change
 
   

Research Library Issues, no. 266 (Oct. 2009)

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
 
 

Research Library Issues, no. 264 (June 2009)

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
 
 
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