For immediate release:
May 27, 2011

For more information, contact:
Kaylyn Groves
Association of Research Libraries
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Research Library Issues Features Report on International ILL

Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published issue 275 of Research Library Issues (RLI). This issue of RLI features the Report of the ARL Task Force on International Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Document Delivery Practices. The report, affirmed by the ARL Board of Directors at their May 2011 meeting, states that it is the right of North American research libraries to participate in international interlibrary loan and document delivery activities.

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

• Report of the Task Force on International Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Practices
  James G. Neal, Larry Alford, Mark Haslett, Catherine Murray-Rust, Winston Tabb, Lizabeth Wilson, Prudence S. Adler

• White Paper: International Interlibrary Loan
  Anne K. Beaubien, Marlayna Christensen, Jennifer Kuehn, David K. Larsen, Mary Lehane

• White Paper: US Law and International Interlibrary Loan
  Brandon Butler, Kenneth D. Crews, Donna Ferullo, Kevin L. Smith

• White Paper: Trends in Licensing
  Selden Durgom Lamoureux, James Stemper

• News

• ARL Calendar 2011

Research Library Issues, no. 275 (June 2011) is freely available at http://publications.arl.org/rli275/.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 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 http://www.arl.org/.