Research Library Issues

RLI issue 271 includes:

• Library Value May Be Proven, If Not Self-Evident
• A Decade of Assessment at a Research-Extensive University Library Using LibQUAL+®
• LibQUAL+® and the “Library as Place” at the University of Glasgow
• Service Quality Assessment with LibQUAL+® in Challenging Times: LibQUAL+® at Cranfield University
• ARL Profiles: Qualitative Descriptions of Research Libraries in the Early 21st Century
• The ARL Library Scorecard Pilot: Using the Balanced Scorecard in Research Libraries
• Lib-Value: Measuring Value and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries
• The Value of Electronic Resources: Measuring the Impact of Networked Electronic Services (MINES for Libraries®) at the Ontario Council of University Libraries

RLI issue 270 includes:

• Celebrating 10 Years of ARL’s Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce
• ETDs and Graduate Education: Programs and Prospects
• Urban Copyright Legends
• Open Access Week: Library Strategies for Advancing Change

RLI issue 269 includes:

• Strategies for Opening Up Content: Laying the Groundwork for an Open System of Scholarship
• Achieving Consensus on the University of Kansas Open-Access Policy
• Improving Access with Open-Access Publishing Funds
• Model Language for Author Rights in Library Content Licenses
• Opening Up Content in HathiTrust: Using HathiTrust Permissions Agreements to Make Authors’ Work Available

RLI issue 268 includes:

• Themes within the ARL Strategic Plan 2010–2012
• ARL Strategic Plan 2010–2012

RLI issue 267 includes:

• Introduction: A Special Issue on Distinctive Collections
• Special Collections at the Cusp of the Digital Age: A Credo
• Moving Special Collections Forward in an Age of Discovery: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum
• The Collaborative Imperative: Special Collections in the Digital Age
• The Changing Role of Special Collections in Scholarly Communications

RLI issue 266 includes:

• Removing All Restrictions Cornell’s New Policy on Use of Public Domain Reproductions
• Evolving Preservation Roles and Responsibilities of Research Libraries
• SPARC Explores Income Models for Supporting Open-Access Journals
• ARL Salary Survey Highlights

RLI issue 265: Special Issue on Liaison Librarian Roles includes the following articles:

• Introduction: Positioning Liaison Librarians for the 21st Century
• A Framework for Articulating New Library Roles
• Amplifying the Educational Role of Librarians
• The Last Mile: Liaison Roles in Curating Science and Engineering Research Data
• Scholarly Communications: Planning for the Integration of Liaison Librarian Roles
• New Roles of Liaison Librarians: A Liaison s Perspective

RLI issue 264 includes the following articles:

• ARL Encourages Members to Refrain from Signing Nondisclosure or Confidentiality Clauses
• The Case for Regulating Google and the Proposed Book Rights Registry
• Learning and Research Spaces in ARL Libraries: Snapshots of Installations and Experiments
• A Different Kind of Conversation: The Sparky Awards and Fresh Views on Change in Scholarly Communication
• ARL Selects Research Library Leadership Fellows for 2009 10

RLI issue 263 includes the following articles:

• Diversity in Research Universities
• An Overview of ARL Diversity Programs
• Digital Scholarly Communication: A Snapshot of Current Trends
• Strategies for Supporting New Genres of Scholarship
• Achieving the Full Potential of Repository Deposit Policies
• Author-Rights Language in Library Content License

RLI issue 262 includes the following articles:

• The University's Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship: A Call to Action
• ARL Statement to Scholarly Publishers on the Global Economic Crisis
• Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum
• ARL Statistics: Redefining Serial Counts and Remaining Relevant in the 21st Century