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ARL Membership Meeting & Fall Forum 2013 Slides Online

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Speakers’ slides from the ARL Membership Meeting and the ARL Fall Forum held October 9–10 and October 10–11 in Arlington, Virginia, are now on the ARL website. Several ARL Membership Meeting sessions built on recent discussions about strategic thinking and the future landscape for research libraries. This year’s ARL Fall Forum, “Mobilizing the Research Enterprise,” explored opportunities and collaborations in responding to the White House memorandum on “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research.” Available slides include:

Membership Meeting

“Riding the Waves or Caught in the Tide?” (PDF)
 Ingrid Parent, University of British Columbia

“A New Ecology for the Information Environment” (PDF)
 Dan Cohen, Digital Public Library of America

Fall Forum

“OA x 3: Engaging Campus Interests at the University of California” (PDF)
 Laine Farley, California Digital Library

“Leveraging the Network for Local Advantage” (PDF)
 Kathleen Shearer, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)

“Preparing When You Can’t Plan” (PDF)
 Karla Strieb, Ohio State University

“Coordinating Deposit and Compliance” (PDF)
 Rebecca Kennison, Columbia University

“SHARE: Discovery: Focus on Papers” (PDF)
 Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC Research and OCLC

“Facilitating New Forms of Discovery” (PDF)
 Larry Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)

For more details about the meetings, such as program schedules, visit the ARL Membership Meeting 2013 website and the ARL Fall Forum 2013 website.


The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 research libraries in the US and Canada. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at https://www.arl.org/.

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