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Library Impact Practice Brief: Developing and Delivering New Research Services at the University of Manitoba Libraries
This practice brief provides an overview of lessons learned in developing and deploying the Research Services & Digital Strategies unit at the University of Manitoba Libraries. The brief reviews and assesses the...
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Research Data
The proliferation, management, and preservation of research data is one of the most pressing challenges facing research libraries. ARL works with members, funders, and partners to advance FAIR (findable, accessible,...
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Darcée Olson Named ARL Visiting Program Officer for Digital Rights Initiative
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has appointed Darcée Olson as a visiting program officer in the Advocacy & Public Policy program from April 2021 through April 2022. Olson is...
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While Library Buildings Are Closed, Collaborative Digital Library Ensures Access to Books for Research, Study
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced closures of college campuses this spring, faculty and students lost access to the printed books and journals in their libraries. Fortunately, a decade-long initiative by...
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Digitization in an Emergency: Fair Use/Fair Dealing and How Libraries Are Adapting to the Pandemic
Like every other major institution operating during the coronavirus pandemic, research libraries are confronting sudden and radical shifts in their daily realities. Foremost among these challenges is the near-total loss...
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Issue Brief: Metadata and Copyright—Should Institutions License Their Data about Scholarship?
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is committed to promoting open scholarship, including making metadata—foundational information about scholarly works—as widely available as possible. Allowing the broadest access to and reuse...
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ARL Library Directors Advise on Digital Dunhuang Initiative
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member library directors Brian E. C. Schottlaender, UC San Diego, and Xuemao Wang, University of Cincinnati, were invited by the Dunhuang Research Academy of China...
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ARL Libraries Invited to Apply for Humanities Open Book Grants—Deadline September 13
Last year, the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation partnered to create Humanities Open Book, a grant program that offers awards up to...
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Association Meeting 2016 (Spring): DPN Update
Presented at the 168th Association Meeting, April 2016, in Vancouver, British Columbia by James Hilton. mm16sp_Hilton.pdf
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Planning a Digital Scholarship Center: A CNI-ARL Workshop
An increasing number of institutions are planning programs and spaces they call digital scholarship centers, scholars’ labs, research commons, or similar names. Often these centers are located in and administered...
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