For immediate release:
March 23, 2011

For more information, contact:
Sue Baughman
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
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ARL Publishes February 2011 RLI

Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published issue 274 of Research Library Issues (RLI). This issue of RLI features a reprisal of David Shulenburger’s October 2010 keynote address on the future of the US research university. Also featured is an article highlighting the roles libraries can play in data management planning.

The complete table of contents with links to the articles follows:

• The Future of the US Research University
  David Shulenburger, Senior Fellow, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities

• Joining in the Enterprise of Response in the Wake of the NSF Data Management Planning Requirement
  Patricia Hswe, Digital Collections Curator, Pennsylvania State University Libraries and Ann Holt, Graduate Assistant, Office of Scholarly Communication, Pennsylvania State University Libraries

• News and Calendar

Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 274 (February 2011) is freely available at http://publications.arl.org/rli274.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 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/.