Events

• Peer-to-Peer Confab: What a Post-COVID World May Bring for Libraries 2 of 2 (Invitation Only)

  Please join Catherine Steeves (Western) and Jon Cawthorne (Wayne State) for a Peer-to-Peer discussion on implications of developments related to COVID and the potential they hold for ARL strategy and...

• Peer-to-Peer Confab: What a Post-COVID World May Bring for Libraries 1 of 2 (Invitation Only)

  Please join Catherine Steeves (Western) and Jon Cawthorne (Wayne State) for a Peer-to-Peer discussion on what a post-pandemic world may bring for research libraries in part one of two conversations....

• Peer-to-Peer Confab: Racial Crises (Invitation Only)

  Please join Karen Estlund (Colorado State) and Robert McDonald (Colorado) for a Peer-to-Peer discussion on the role of library leaders in addressing the racial crises and to share the ideas...

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  ARL Membership Convenes Online for Spring 2020 Association Meeting

  Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member representatives and staff conducted the 176th Association Meeting via videoconferencing on May 12–14, 2020. This was the first virtual Association Meeting in ARL’s 88-year...

• In Memoriam: ARL Remembers Representatives Who Have Passed Away, Spring 2020

  The ARL community remembers Robert Harold Blackburn, Brinley R. Franklin, and Jennifer Paustenbaugh with admiration and appreciation. In Memoriam: ARL Members Who Have Passed Away, Spring 2020

• Interim Representatives New to the Association of Research Libraries

  Seven interim member representatives were new to the Association in Spring/Summer 2020: Dianne Babski, Earnstein Dukes, Scott Miller, Marilyn Myers, Brian Rennick, Charlene Sorensen, and Deb Ward. Interim Member Representatives...

• Member Representatives New to the Association of Research Libraries

  Two member representatives, Karen Estlund and Clement Guthro, were new to the Association in Spring/Summer 2020. Member Representatives New to the Association of Research Libraries

• ARL Member Representatives Retiring or Stepping Down in Summer 2020

  ARL’s Kaylyn Groves interviewed three of the four member representatives who are retiring or stepping down in summer 2020. A bio is included in this document for the director the...

• Recover, Retrench, Reset: An IARLA Symposium

  This virtual meeting, convened by the International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA), will explore the future reinstatement of onsite library services in the post- or recurring-COVID-19 environment. The event...

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  Deadline Extended for Library Assessment Conference 2020 Proposals—Now Due March 2

  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the University of Washington Libraries, and the Conference Steering Committee have extended the deadline for paper, poster, and workshop proposals for the 2020 Library...

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