For immediate release:
September 30, 2011
For more information, contact:
Kaylyn Groves
Association of Research Libraries
kaylyn@arl.org
Washington, DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published issue 276 of Research Library Issues (RLI). This issue of RLI features a speech on the future of the research university presented by McGill University Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heather Munroe-Blum at the May 2011 ARL Membership Meeting. Also in this issue, Karen Hogenboom, Tom Teper, and Lynn Wiley from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign explore the challenges of collecting "small data" (as opposed to "big data"). Finally, ARL's Brandon Butler sheds light on two common misleading copyright claims.
The complete table of contents with links to the articles follows:
Ahead of the Storm: Research Libraries and the Future of the Research University
Heather Munroe-Blum
Collecting Small Data
Karen Hogenboom, Tom Teper, and Lynn Wiley
Copyfraud and Classroom Performance Rights: Two Common Bogus Copyright Claims
Brandon Butler
Research Library Issues, no. 276 (September 2011) is freely available at http://publications.arl.org/rli276/.
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/.