For immediate release
November 14, 2007
For more information, contact:
Lee Anne George
Publications Program Officer, ARL
202-296-2296
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Karla Hahn
Director, Office of Scholarly Communication, ARL
202-296-2296
karla@arl.org
Washington DC—ARL is pleased to make the full content of Scholarly Communication Education Initiatives, SPEC Kit 299, freely available online. Written by alumni of the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication, Kathleen A. Newman, Deborah D. Blecic, and Kimberly L. Armstrong, the study provides a survey of outreach activities among ARL member libraries and gathers examples of documentation from respondents in the form of proposals for education initiatives, scholarly communication and copyright Web pages, job descriptions, and education materials.
To access the report, visit the FAIR (Freely Accessible Institute Resources) Web site maintained in conjunction with the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication at http://www.arl.org/sc/institute/instres.shtml.
In addition to a PDF of the complete report, the Web site offers a PDF of the table of contents and executive summary and a supplementary Web page listing the Web-based resources included in the SPEC Kit with active links.
The SPEC Kit can also be purchased in print form (see below to order).
For more information on the SPEC Kit series, visit http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/spec/.
SPEC Kit 299, Scholarly Communication Education Initiatives
Kathleen A. Newman, Deborah D. Blecic, and Kimberly L. Armstrong • August 2007 • ISBN 1-59407-792-4 • 200 pp. • $45 ($35 ARL members)
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