For immediate release:
March 25, 2010

For more information, contact:
Brandon Butler
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
brandon@arl.org

ARL Creates Public Policy Blog for Research Library Community

Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the creation of ARL Policy Notes, a blog developed by ARL’s Law and Policy Fellow Brandon Butler.

ARL Policy Notes reports on public policy issues that impact the research library community, from copyright and intellectual property issues, such as the Google Book Search Settlement, to access to federally funded research, the Federal Depository Library Program, and telecommunications policies, such as net neutrality.

The postings will usually be authored by Brandon Butler, unless otherwise noted. In addition, guest bloggers will be asked to contribute their insight and understanding of specific policy issues. As is common practice on the Web, the blog will also collect interesting quotes, images, video, and audio from all over the Web to reflect the broader conversation on these issues.

To view the public policy blog, please visit: http://policynotes.arl.org/.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 124 research libraries in North America. 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 http://www.arl.org/.