For immediate release:
July 23, 2010

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

Research Library Issues no. 270 Now Online

Washington DC--The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released issue 270 of Research Library Issues (RLI).

This issue of RLI features articles on ARL's Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce, electronic theses and dissertations, common copyright myths, and library strategies for engaging in Open Access Week.

The full table of contents with links to the articles follows.

• Celebrating 10 Years of ARL's Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce
  by Mark A. Puente, Director of Diversity Programs, ARL

• ETDs and Graduate Education: Programs and Prospects
  by Joan K. Lippincott, Associate Executive Director, CNI
  Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, CNI

• Urban Copyright Legends
  by Brandon Butler, Director of Public Policy Initiatives, ARL

• Open Access Week: Library Strategies for Advancing Change
  by Jamaica Jones, Special Projects Librarian, National Center for Atmospheric Research
  Andrew Waller, Licensing and Negotiations Librarian and Open Access Librarian, University of Calgary
  with Jennifer McLennan, Director of Programs and Operations, SPARC

• News and Calendar

Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and SPARC (RLI) is a freely available, online-only publication released six times per year by the Association of Research Libraries. RLI focuses on the major issues that affect the ability of research libraries to meet the academic and research needs of the diverse communities they serve. RLI is on the Web at http://publications.arl.org/.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 125 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/.