For immediate release:
February 4, 2008

For more information, contact:
Kaylyn Groves
Association of Research Libraries
kaylyn@arl.org

ARL Bimonthly Report Features Article on the Library’s Evolving Role in Graduate Education

Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the February 2008 issue of the ARL Bimonthly Report. This issue features the article “Enhancing Graduate Education: A Fresh Look at Library Engagement,” which presents an overview of the discussions at a recent forum cosponsored by ARL and the Coalition for Networked Information. The issue also includes a short piece about SPARC’s new campaign to engage students on open access, an article about recent and future changes to ARL statistics, and a brief chronology of ARL efforts to develop new ways of measuring library collections.

Copies of this issue were shipped late last week to ARL member libraries & subscribers. The issue is also available on the Web at http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br256.shtml. The table of contents—with links to PDFs of the articles—is provided below.

ARL: A Bimonthly Report, no. 256 (February 2008)

Enhancing Graduate Education: A Fresh Look at Library Engagement [PDF]
by Diane Goldenberg-Hart, Communications Coordinator, Coalition for Networked Information

New SPARC Campaign Engages Students on Open Access [PDF]
by Jennifer McLennan, Director of Communications, SPARC

Reshaping ARL Statistics to Capture the New Environment [PDF]
by Martha Kyrillidou, Director, ARL Statistics and Service Quality Programs

Chronology of New Ways of Measuring Collections [PDF]

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 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, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is located on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.