Catherine Steeves Named Western University Librarian
Catherine Steeves Western University has appointed Catherine Steeves as university librarian for a five-year term, effective August 18, 2014. She is currently the deputy chief information officer and associate chief librarian…
SHARE Research Data Hackathon
The SHARE team from the Center for Open Science is hosting a research data hackathon in Washington, DC, on June 20–21! Join us to work on building the SHARE Notify…
Alternative Academic Careers: Potential Benefits to PhDs and the Academy
Elizabeth Waraksa In a post today on the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Re.Thinking blog, Elizabeth Waraksa, ARL strategic thinking and design research fellow and former CLIR postdoctoral…
ARL Joins ALA, ACRL, EFF in Amicus Brief Supporting Google Book Search
Washington, DC—On August 1, 2012, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joined other members of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA)—the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and…
Bélanger, Hitchens, Lamont to Provide Interim Library Leadership at University of Waterloo
Annie Bélanger, Alison Hitchens, and Sharon Lamont, image © University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo has appointed an interim library management team, effective May 1, 2016. The team members…
SHARE Notification Service Architectural Overview
The SHARE notification service will gather information about research release events through both a direct push protocol and a harvest strategy. The service will then notify consumers of these events…
Strategies to Sustain Digitized Special Collections: Ithaka S+R/ARL Web Seminar Video and Q&A Online
Vigilantes of Montana poster, courtesy American Antiquarian Society Museums and libraries are taking advantage of advances in technology to move their rare and unique collections online. What most institutions learn…
2017.09.15-LimitedTermDepartmentHeads-Dawes.pdf
Limited Term Department Heads 1 Original query: Is it the case in any of your libraries where a current employee is appointed to the position of a department head, or even an AUL, for a limited term? This would be a model similar to that in many academic departments where a department chair or a…
Joy Kirchner Appointed York University Librarian
Joy Kirchner, image © York University York University has named Joy Kirchner as university librarian for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2015. She is currently associate university librarian for…
