Research Library Issues

Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 282 includes:

ARL Library Budgets after the Great Recession, 2011–13
Charles B. Lowry

The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012
Karla L. Strieb and Julia C. Blixrud

Evolving Models of Reference Staffing at the University of Kansas Libraries
Frances Devlin and John Stratton

The ARL Joint Task Force on Services to Patrons with Print Disabilities released this report to bring much-needed attention to the challenges of print-disabled individuals who are seeking access to both print and digital library products and services. The report contains recommendations for research libraries to make information accessible to their full range of diverse users equitably. ARL believes that research libraries are poised to provide critical direction—along with academic leadership, IT, and disability services—on the service and technology planning, procurement, and licensing necessary to create a fully accessible information environment.

RLI issue 281 includes:

• Editor's Note
• Executive Summary
• Print Disabilities, Libraries, and Higher Education
• US and Canadian Disability Policies, Recent Challenges, and US and Canadian Copyright Law
• Research Libraries and Individuals with Print Disabilities
• Universal Design, Inclusive Design, Accessibility, and Usability
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Model Licensing Language

RLI issue 280 includes:

Open Educational Resources as Learning Materials: Prospects and Strategies for University Libraries
Marilyn S. Billings, Sarah C. Hutton, Jay Schafer, Charles M. Schweik, and Matt Sheridan

E-Book Licensing and Research Libraries--Negotiating Principles and Price in an Emerging Market
Charles B. Lowry and Julia C. Blixrud

Research Library Trends: A Historical Picture of Services, Resources, and Spending
Martha Kyrillidou

RLI issue 282: Pre-pub of "The State of Large-Publisher Bundles in 2012"

image © 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).

RLI issue 279 includes:

• Digitization of Special Collections and Archives: Legal and Contractual Issues
• Model Deed of Gift
• Model Deed of Gift, including Mixed IP Rights
• Model Digitization Agreement
• Copyright Risk Management: Principles and Strategies for Large-Scale Digitization Projects in Special Collections

RLI issue 278 includes:

• Leading a Full Life: Reflections on Several Decades of Work, Family, and Accomplishment
• Scenario Planning: Developing a Strategic Agenda for Organizational Alignment
• Bringing Scenario Planning Home to KU
• The ARL Balanced Scorecard Initiative Meets the ARL 2030 Scenarios

RLI issue 277 includes:

• Rebalancing the Investment in Collections
• Experimenting with Strategies for Crowdsourcing Manuscript Transcription
• Keeping the Doors Open: Exploring 24-Hour Library Access at Washington University in St. Louis

RLI issue 276 includes:

• Ahead of the Storm: Research Libraries and the Future of the Research University
• Collecting Small Data
• Copyfraud and Classroom Performance Rights: Two Common Bogus Copyright Claims

RLI issue 275 includes:

• Report of the Task Force on International Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Practices
• White Paper: International Interlibrary Loan
• White Paper: US Law and International Interlibrary Loan
• White Paper: Trends in Licensing

RLI issue 274 includes:

• The Future of the US Research University
• Joining in the Enterprise of Response in the Wake of the NSF Data Management Planning Requirement

RLI issue 273 includes:

• Three Key Public Policies for Research Libraries: Net Neutrality, Fair Use, Open and Public Access
• The Importance of Net Neutrality to Research Libraries in the Digital Age
• Challenges in Employing Fair Use in Academic and Research Libraries
• Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Contributions to Economic Development, Competitiveness, and Innovation

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

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

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

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

RLI issue 268 includes:

• Themes within the ARL Strategic Plan 2010–2012
• ARL Strategic Plan 2010–2012

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

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

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 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

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

Liz Lyon on the increasingly data-intensive nature of science librarianship. Audio excerpt embedded in the article "Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum" from Research Library Issues no. 262.

rli-262-lyon-excerpt.mp3

Cliff Lynch on expanding roles of science librarians. Audio excerpt embedded in the article "Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum" from Research Library Issues no. 262.

rli-262-lynch-excerpt.mp3

Richard Luce on the need for more flexible staffing in science libraries. Audio excerpt embedded in the article "Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum" from Research Library Issues no. 262.

rli-262-luce-excerpt.mp3