This edition of the ARL Statistics describes the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities for the 125 members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in fiscal year 2010–2011.
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SPEC Kit 333 explores the scale and scope of art and artifact materials held by ARL member libraries, which tools and techniques they currently use to manage these collections, including those used by library staff only and those used to make information about these collections available to the public, and if there is evidence of a convergence of library, archive, and museum practices in the management of these collections. It includes collection development policies, guidelines for arranging materials, and examples of how art and artifact collections are described.
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SPEC Kit 331 focuses on the professional, administrative, and management positions that report directly to the library director (or in some ARL member libraries the position that serves as the representative to the association), positions that have not been examined by a SPEC survey since 1984. It explores the responsibilities of these positions, and the skills, qualifications, and competencies necessary for these administrators to successfully lead a transforming 21st century research library. It looks at whether and how position requirements have changed in the past five years, whether the number of direct reports has changed, whether these administrators have assumed new areas of organizational responsibility, and how they acquire the new skills to fulfill those responsibilities. It includes documents that compare organization charts and position descriptions from 2007 and 2012.
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The report proposes that the growing number, and heterogeneity, of graduate students and programs presents opportunities for research libraries to provide segmented services targeted for students at different stages of their academic and demographic life-cycle.
Through their interviews, Covert-Vail and Collard found an enthusiasm for a broad range of new services, from advanced data manipulation and visualization to softer skills-based instruction in time management and writer’s block. They also report that new configurations of library space, housing aggregated services into research or scholarly commons, for example, can both create and leverage collaborations within the larger institution.
Finally, the authors present different strategies for staffing graduate student services, from dedicated positions and committees to more loosely structured teams comprising subject liaisons, technologists, data librarians, and others, who work together to deliver a suite of complex solutions to meet the needs of graduate students in research institutions.
 nrnt-grad-roles-20dec12.pdf
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
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This edition of the ARL Statistics describes the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities for the 125 members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in fiscal year 2009–2010.
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Link to the online ARL Statistics 2009-2010 on the ARL Digital Publications website.
SPEC Kit 332 explores how research institutions are currently organizing staff to support scholarly communication services, and whether their organizational structures have changed since 2007, when member libraries were surveyed about their scholarly communication education initiative. It covers who leads scholarly communication efforts inside and outside the library, the scholarly communication related services that are offered to researchers, and which staff support those services. It also looks at how the library measures the success of its scholarly communication services, including demonstrable outcomes of these services. It includes position descriptions for library leaders of scholarly communication efforts, charges for SC committees, organization charts, descriptions of SC services, assessment tools, open access policies, and SC resolutions.
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SPEC Kit 330 explores the scope of accreditation standards,the data provided by research libraries to meet the requirements of accrediting bodies, and which library staff participate in preparing reports and site visits. The survey results may help libraries identify and understand what standards exist, and how their contributions lead to successful accreditation and reaccreditation for their parent institutions. Additionally, this survey sought to identify how deeply ARL libraries are involved in the accreditation process at the institutional level. As libraries strive to establish their impact and value in higher education, this measure is one way to gauge how institutional leaders perceive their libraries’ contributions. This SPEC Kit includes examples of programmatic and regional accrediting agency reports from respondents and descriptions of the accreditation process.
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SPEC Kit 329 explores the tools, workflow, and policies special collections and archives staff use to process, manage, and provide access to born-digital materials they collect. It also looks at which staff process and manage born-digital materials and how they acquire the skills they need for these activities, and how libraries have responded to the challenges that managing born-digital materials present. It includes documentation from respondents that describe digital specialists’ job responsibilities, collection policies, gift/purchase agreements, format policies, and workflows.
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Terms:2012, Ben Goldman, Cynthia Ghering, Jackie R. Esposito, Lisa Schmidt, Michael Shallcross, Michelle Belden, Nancy Deromedi, Naomi L. Nelson, Publications, Research Collections, Seth Shaw, SPEC Kit, Special Collections and Archives, Text, Tim Pyatt
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
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